What is caring?

The meaning of caring as stated in the National Library of Medicine by author Kathleen Wilkin includes “cognitive, affective, psychomotor and administrative skills” when viewed from a professional care environment, such as in the health sector.

The Cambridge Dictionary describes caring as kind, nice, sweet, good and good-hearted.

Kansas State University blog, written by Charles A. Smith describes caring as showing a “demonstrated concern for the well-being of another. Caring is active, not passive”.

Think about the types of caring that people may give.

People receive medals for acts of heroism, placing their own lives at risk to care for another’s welfare. Parents care for their children, emergency service workers, paramedics, firefighters, police and volunteer emergency staff. Levels of care can be personal or external to our lives. People can care every day, and some acts of caring are spontaneous, such as in the times when another person needs help. A person stepping in to help a stranger is caring. A person looking after an ill friend or family member is caring. Showing concern for a person or animal’s health and well-being is caring.