Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
22 results found in Caregiving.
- Articulation Work (Care Articulation, Need Articulation)
- The often invisible labor of putting thoughts, needs, and feelings into words, particularly in care relationships. Articulation work involves expressing what support is needed, coordinating care activ…
- Care Partner (Care Dyad, Caregiving Relationship)
- A term encompassing both the person providing care (caregiver) and the person receiving care (care receiver), emphasizing the collaborative and reciprocal nature of care relationships rather than a on…
- Care Staff (Care Worker, Direct Care Worker, Personal Care Aide, Care Assistant)
- Individuals who provide day-to-day personal care and support to residents in care facilities, including assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, toileting, and mobility. Care staff are distinct from…
- Care Web (Care Web in Practice)
- A care web is a relational network of overlapping, often reciprocal support that sustains a disabled person's participation in everyday life, described by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in 'Care Wor…
- Caregiver (Family Caregiver, Informal Caregiver, Carer)
- A person who provides unpaid assistance with daily activities, emotional support, and care coordination for a family member, friend, or neighbor who has a disability, chronic illness, or age-related n…
- Caregiver Burden (Carer Burden, Caregiver Stress)
- Caregiver burden refers to the physical, emotional, social, and financial strain experienced by individuals who provide ongoing care to a family member or partner with a disability, chronic illness, o…
- Caregiving (Carer, Caregiver, Care Partner, Informal Carer)
- The unpaid or paid work of supporting another person with daily living, health management, social participation, or emotional needs, often in the context of disability, chronic illness, or ageing. In …
- Co-Regulation (Coregulation)
- Co-regulation is the process by which one person helps another manage their emotional or physiological state, through presence, calming behaviours, modelling coping strategies, or environmental adjust…
- Collaborative Memory (Distributed Cognition, Shared Memory)
- The process by which memory tasks and cognitive load are distributed across multiple people, typically within families or close social groups. In the context of disability and caregiving, collaborativ…
- Collaborative Tracking (Collaborative Self-Tracking)
- Collaborative tracking is the practice of multiple people - typically a person with a health condition and their caregivers or allies - contributing to and reviewing shared health or behaviour data. I…
- Dialogue of Care (Care Dialogue, Care Communication)
- The ongoing exchange of information, observations, and concerns between a person receiving care and their carers — whether professional, familial, or informal. In assistive technology and telecare con…
- Digital Family Portrait
- Digital Family Portrait is a 2001 research prototype from Georgia Institute of Technology (Mynatt et al.) that uses an ambient, picture-frame-style display in an adult child's home to represent the da…
- Doll Therapy
- A nonpharmacological intervention used in dementia care in which a person is given a lifelike doll to hold, dress, and care for. For some people with advanced dementia, engaging with the doll can redu…
- Family-based Care (Family Caregiving Model, Home-based Care)
- Family-based care is the model in which a relative — most often a parent, spouse, adult child, or sibling — is the primary caregiver for a disabled, chronically ill, or ageing family member, typically…
- Formal Caregiver (Professional Caregiver, Paid Caregiver)
- A formal caregiver is a paid, trained professional who provides care — personal, medical, or social — to a disabled, ill, or ageing person, typically through a healthcare organisation, home-care agenc…
- Joint Awareness
- Joint awareness is a shared understanding between two or more people about a condition, situation, or state - for example, a child's sensory triggers known to both the child and their parent, or a chr…
- Life Story Work (Life Story, Biography Work, Digital Biography)
- A person-centered approach to care that involves gathering and sharing information about an individual's life history, preferences, relationships, and experiences. In dementia care, life story work he…
- OCD Accommodation (Family Accommodation)
- A behavior — typically by family, friends, or clinicians — that participates in or enables a person with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) to complete a compulsion, for example by providing reassura…
- Parents with Visual Impairments (PVI, Blind Parents, Visually Impaired Parents)
- Parents with visual impairments (PVI) are blind or low-vision adults raising children, who are often sighted. PVI face distinctive parenting challenges that go beyond individual functional compensatio…
- Repetitive Questioning (Perseverative Questioning)
- A behavioural symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease, in which a person repeatedly asks the same question over and over, often within short time intervals. Repetitive questioning can st…