Caregiver burden in artificial nutrition at home

Non-professional caregivers provide assistance to patients losing their autonomy for some or all of the actions of daily life on a regular and frequent basis. Home artificial nutrition is a healthcare situation where the role of non-professional caregivers can be crucial. Non-professional caregiver burden, a concept initially developed for geriatrics, has been described and analyzed both among non-professional caregivers of enteral nutrition patients and, more recently, among those who support parenteral nutrition patients. In this article, we offer a literature review and an ethical perspective on this difficult social subject. (c) 2023 Socie ' te ' francophone nutrition clinique et me ' tabolisme (SFNCM). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.