Caring motivation is understood as the benevolent attitude and mindset towards people in need of care that is necessarily associated with effective caring activities: “Any caring motivation must include a benevolent wariness of the situation of the other and her/his well-being, reflecting both individuals’ need for care and their responsibility to care. Caring motivations reflect the relatedness, the attachment of the caring protagonist to other individuals” (Jochimsen 2003a: 76, emphasis in original). In this context, the care needs of others are taken as the starting point for the actions of the care receiver: “Caring motivations take the situation of the care receiver as the starting point to determine what must be done” (ibid.: 77).
Care Glossary
Terms for Caring Societies
