.....in the 'economic' language of 'Rights'.
In Chapter I PRELIMINARY in 2(d) in the Mental Health Care Bill 2013, the definition of a ‘caregiver’ is-
“care-giver” means a person who resides with a person with mental illness and is responsible for providing care to that person and includes a relative or any other person who performs this function, either free or with remuneration;
This definition holds mostly for –
“commercial", ‘paid’ caregivers working in Government /Private Hospitals, private ‘establishments’, for resource rich families, for people equipped with finances, researchers as volunteers for research studies, students as volunteers for a resume for college admissions abroad or for altruism have been all covered and bunched together with a… ‘relative’.
A commercial approach to the definition of a caregiver - as these commercial caregivers do not ‘live’ together in the same household and share the same kitchen as ‘family caregivers’ do.
To codify that all individuals with serious mental illness need spaces away from their families would be discrediting the diversity of 'care' they need which will not alleviate the tremendous suffering that these illnesses bring.
'Family Caregivers' of loved ones with a serious mental illness considered as 'externalities' by economists despite providing the bulk of the long-term ongoing care in India and not computed in its GNP?
In Chapter I PRELIMINARY in 2(d) in the Mental Health Care Bill 2013, the definition of a ‘caregiver’ is-
“care-giver” means a person who resides with a person with mental illness and is responsible for providing care to that person and includes a relative or any other person who performs this function, either free or with remuneration;
This definition holds mostly for –
“commercial", ‘paid’ caregivers working in Government /Private Hospitals, private ‘establishments’, for resource rich families, for people equipped with finances, researchers as volunteers for research studies, students as volunteers for a resume for college admissions abroad or for altruism have been all covered and bunched together with a… ‘relative’.
A commercial approach to the definition of a caregiver - as these commercial caregivers do not ‘live’ together in the same household and share the same kitchen as ‘family caregivers’ do.
To codify that all individuals with serious mental illness need spaces away from their families would be discrediting the diversity of 'care' they need which will not alleviate the tremendous suffering that these illnesses bring.
'Family Caregivers' of loved ones with a serious mental illness considered as 'externalities' by economists despite providing the bulk of the long-term ongoing care in India and not computed in its GNP?
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