To give the patient the best care possible, it is important for me to have a personal understanding of and connection with what my patient is going through. Being able to empathize allows the me to put myself in the patient's shoes, and identify and ease the patient's fears or discomfort. Working with people in a home care setting, it is essential that a caregiver feel the desire to want to help. By showing both empathy and compassion caregivers will let the person they are caring for know that they care about the person and want to do what they can to help them.