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carer|ˈkɛərə(r)|
[f. care v.]
a. One who cares.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. 185 The immoderate Carers for the World. 1850Browning Christmas Eve 166 A carer for none of it, a Gallio?
b. spec. A person whose occupation is the care of the sick, aged, disabled, etc.; one who looks after a disabled or elderly relative at home, esp. one who is therefore unable to work. Cf. caring ppl. a.
1978Age & Ageing VII. 107 A much lower proportion of patients with chief carers in social classes one and two were admitted than those in three, four and five. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 9 May 530/4 Some professional ‘carers’..make therapeutic work a substitute for living and can no longer even tell whether they like or dislike a person in ordinary life. 1982Times 7 May 2/6 More money should be spent on the carers—those people, mainly women and mainly unpaid, who look after old and handicapped relations. 1985New Age Summer 7/3 Believers in Cosmic nursing..distribute information and supportive literature to carers in hospital and in homes, and to relatives of elderly people. 1985Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Aug. 465/1 Carers, usually women, are the welfare state's solution to an expensive problem. |