title: [To build a world for treatment].
abstract: To care for someone who suffers a chronic disease is a very complex activity which implies more than a strict medical aspect. The families affected, especially those from the lower income brackets, must confront difficult situations; for the majority of these families, enrolling the ill patient in a residential treatment center is not an option and as time passes, these families will depend on their own aid mechanisms more and more; this makes this family care situation a public health affair and one for nurses in particular. This article shows how these caretakers are active creators of a world which provides them with the resources to deal with the daily care of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. ccuesta@elsitio.net.co
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de la Cuesta Benjumea
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory