What comes to mind for you when you think of a 'caregiver'? Is it the person who is hired to come in and assist your frail, elderly aunt or parent or grandparent? Over the many years of assisting family caregivers of the chronically ill, I slowly have come to see that almost everyone is a caregiver in some way or another. The narrow perception that most people have about the word 'caregiver' makes it hard to identify with it. For some, the word takes on a negative meaning. On