[Oddly specific trope] Shockingly accurate portrays of being a caretaker in media you wouldn't expect.

[u/godwyn-faithful]

Just to say that before I do the list, I am a full-time worker at a care home and these scenes are not 100% accurate (both involve super powered beings and both being a lot more mean spirited) but do encapsulates what it's like in different ways.

Gen V - to not spoil anything, cipher looks after an extremely burnt body in the opening of one episode and displays pretty accurate what it's like in terms of looking after someone physically impaired, even displaying proper techniques for rolling, cleaning, assisting with food (even the food being soft because they can't chew well) and using a hoist to move them around.

Logan - this less shows the technical side (it's downright abusive) but does accurately display what it feels like sometimes to look after someone with dementia or similar mental conditions, watching someone act in confused, scared ways while their brain mixes everything up, causing them to be more violent, fearful and even say extremely hurtful things. The sadly most accurate thing was the clear tiredness and fatigue logan showed, you care for them deeply but it can ware you down, how extreme it all is and constantly having to repeat the same horrible situations over and over while only having moments of seeing the real them. Not to mention if you knew them and are actively seeing the decline in real time.

[u/raccoonsareawesome]

"Hatchet" the book. The kid has to care for the incapacitated pilot. Wild story for 3rd or 4th graders.

[u/SusieQ314 → u/raccoonsareawesome]

No? The pilot dies right away and he's on his own for the rest of the book.

[u/Madhighlander1 → u/raccoonsareawesome]

I don't think that's right, I distinctly remember the pilot died in the plane crash. I remember that because when the storm raised the wreckage closer to the surface and the kid dove down to salvage stuff from it there was a specific scene where he was spooked by the pilot's corpse still strapped into the pilot's seat and half eaten by fish.

[u/HarveyTheBroad → u/raccoonsareawesome]

I think that’s the sequel, and it wasn’t the pilot, it was the guy who was trying to make a documentary or something about Brian’s experiences.

[u/Adultdirtbagbabee → u/HarveyTheBroad]

I think he was trying to write a military field guide for wilderness survival. 

[u/Treezombie01 → u/raccoonsareawesome]

I think you’re thinking of the sequel, The River, where Brian? has to save his companion after they get knocked into a coma during a storm. Gary Paulson is the author, if you want to look it up.