随着中国社会老龄化的加剧，老年人中普遍且长期存在的慢性病照护问题日益突出。文章以老年慢性病照护者的视角，描述了照护者的特征、照护负担以及减轻负担的方法，以期为推动老年慢性病照护研究以及相应的家庭护理构建一个初步分析的框架，从而促进老年患者及其照护者的身心健康，提高其生活质量，为家庭养老的“整合策略”提供依据。

With the increasingly aging of Chinese population, longterm care for old people with chronic diseases becomes prominent. This paper reviews characteristics and burden of caregivers and ways to ease the burden from the perspective of the caregiver of old people with chronic diseases. The purpose is to establish a primarily analytic framework to motivate the study and family nursing for caring old people with chronic diseases, promote physical and mental health of old patients and their caregivers, improve the quality of life, and provide evidence for the “integral strategies” of family nursing.