[To build a world for treatment]

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.