A higher dependence of children in their daily tasks undoubtedly places a greater burden on their caregivers and all health care providers in clinical settings, especially nurses. Therefore, literature describes care dependency as a problem that needs to be addressed. Care dependency is not only influenced by age, severity of illness and disability but also by cultural and social factors. This monograph attempted to compare the care dependency among school-age children of two countries with distinctive cultural contexts: Germany and Egypt. Germany is a highly developed country with...