Long Distance Care Providers- Who Are They?

Who is a long distance care provider ?

It is “anyone who

1. who provides informal, unpaid care to a person experiencing some degree of physical, mental, emotional, or economic impairment that limits independence and necessitates assistance
2. who experiences caregiving complications because of geographic distance from the care recipient, as determined by distance, travel time, travel costs, personal mobility problems, limited transportation, and other related factors that affect the caregiver’s access to the care recipient.”

This definition focuses on the experience of the long distant caregiver. This definition also takes into account the actual experience of distant caregiving and is an excellent working definition