Caregiver burden: grandmothers raising their high risk grandchildren.

1. The term caregiver burden currently describes the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and financial problems that can be experienced by family members who are caregivers. 2. The health, emotional and psychosocial well being of the grandchild (care recipient) directly affects the grandmother caregiver's health, emotional, and psychosocial well being. 3. The nursing profession is in an ideal position to identify effective interventions to reduce the stress grandmothers feel.