Who cares for me?: experiences of a primary caregiver

Abstract

Cares are actions that sustainably generate people's physical and emotional well-being. An essential work that, from an unequal and stereotyped perspective, has fallen mainly in the home and carried out in an unpaid way by women. Despite its importance for sustaining life, this work continues to exist in an invisible way in Mexico, allowing the caregiving trajectory of many women to be precarious and underestimated. The methodology approached was a life story supported by the interview. Using an interview guide to collect information from an elderly primary caregiver, the result of which was the report of experiences, difficulties, causes and consequences of the invisibility of the aforementioned processes, concluding that the inclusion of the gender perspective in being Knowing and doing care is urgent in Mexico.