Dealing the toughness of Chronic disease, challenges of the dyad: Caregiver/person cared for

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Introduction: The need of care had increased in an exponential way in the last years associated to uncommunicable chronic disease, these people are in a condition of dependence requiring a caregiver in this process they receive and give cares that affect the dyad because of the loss of their own autonomy. Objetive: Describing the meaning of the dyad based on the uncommunicable chronic disease, allowing to recognize the own values from the care interaction. Method: Phenomenological-hermeneutic study analyzed through the analysis of the interpretative phenomenology based on the proposal of Van Manen. Approved by the Surcolombiana University ethics committee. Results: Six dyads were interviewed. The following topics emerged: feeling gratitude for the family support, care and care feet in dependence, chronicity, deal with the roughness of disease, sharing care without becoming a burden and spirituality as strength to continue. Conclusions: The dyad deal with multiple challenges: care and being care. The caregiver conceives the care as a way as reciprocate the benefits receive from the love one the person which is being cared struggles for not becoming a burden taking them to a significant experience that rebuilds their lives.

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Perdomo, C. A. R., Cuellar, E. C., & Romero, A. Y. P. (2018). Dealing the toughness of Chronic disease, challenges of the dyad: Caregiver/person cared for. Cultura de Los Cuidados, 22(52), 46–57. https://doi.org/10.14198/cuid.2018.52.04

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