Calculate your Caregiver Burden

Caregiver burden can be defined as “the level of multifaceted strain perceived by the caregiver from caring for a family member and/or loved one over time”. 

Informal caregiving may provide emotional benefits and togetherness for carers,but it also involves considerable challenges including adverse psychological, physical, social and financial consequences.

Studies indicate that informal caregiving affects carers’ wellbeing and their own health resulting in isolation, fatigue, sleeping problems, exhaustion, weight loss, depression and anxiety.

It is therefore important that carer outcomes are assessed in order to be able to provide effective support and to reduce negative consequences of caregiving.