Compassion & Care are not the same thing and are often confused.
Care is providing for the needs of another.
Compassion is sharing a true value with another.
When a patient needs to be cared for and the carer needs to be needed, this is compassionate care in action.
When the patient no longer wants to be cared for or the carer no longer cares, there is no compassion present.
Caring with compassion occurs when co-dependent needs are being successfully met by mutual consent.
A carer who doesn’t need to be needed may not care.
A patient who no longer needs care no longer needs a carer.
When one or both parties do not care, there is no compassion.
True compassion requires both parties to be in empathy with each other, not one in sympathy with another.