Abstract

The authors propose to reconstruct the legal framework of the forms of protection for caregivers, i.e. people who assist subjects unable to handle autonomously the satisfaction of the most elementary needs of their daily lives. The aim is to verify the correspondence of the current system of protection to the constitutional principles, particularly regarding to the founding value of work and the continuous evolution of the concept of family, and the adequacy of this one to face the great appeals of conciliation between work-life and family-life.