"Caregiving is an unrelenting 24 / 7, 365-day-a-year job. You can imagine the pressure," says Chen Yu-fen. Caregiving is a job where "life is exchanged." The younger generation is willing to exchange youthful years for an extension of the elder person's life, but caregiving often gives the caregiver a feeling that nothing has been accomplished, and this is very painful to them.
「全年無休的照顧工作，壓力之大可以想見，」陳郁芬指出，照顧是一種「生命交換」的工作，下一代願意用青春來交換老人生命的延續，但照顧工作卻常令照顧者感到沒有成就感，覺得深受煎熬。