They don't take holidays even in August. They are family caregivers, mostly women, a figure as essential as it is invisible, on which a large part of the care system rests. In the Lleida region, the Generalitat has registered 11,092 non-professional caregivers (in rural areas, there are 2,934), 64.2% of whom are women with an average age of 62.

Three weekday mornings, Lídia takes care of her one-and-a-half-year-old grandson. She's already at home by nine: she gives him breakfast, helps him get dressed, and spends the morning playing with him until his mother returns from work at noon. "It's not hard for me," assures this sixty-seven-year-old grandmother.

We read in the ARA The case of a woman, Yaqui, who was looking for work as a caregiver and was raped by the man who had answered her ad. The woman, who was in an irregular situation when the events occurred, was afraid to report it in case she was deported.