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When caregiving consumes personal identity

I'm caring for my mother with dementia and I feel like I'm watching myself disappear into her needs.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intensive eldercare can subsume individual identity into caregiver role when boundaries between self and dependent blur.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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