Who takes care of me? Family caregivers of non-traumatic amputation diabetics in the Jalisco State

Abstract

This work is part of the theoretical advances whose dissertation topic to be discussed is the suffering of a group of caregivers caring for your diabetic family with non-traumatic amputation, residents of Guadalajara, Jalisco. The warning about the need to clarify the central element by which research is organized, is not in the condition diabetes mellitus or diabetic family strictly as in existing studies from different disciplinary looks (which have favored this or that aspect and are key to understanding the plot of events expected) but is articulate and problematize the suffering of the caretaker who lives close the complications of diabetes mellitus in the family, which becomes key throughout the disease process, and placed his participation in a situation of extreme vulnerability. Under these criteria are expected to account for the problem of suffering from the emic perspective, to recover the emotions as a way to establish a dialogue between the personal and the sociocultural, under the relationship that the caregiver and the patient down on her every day.