The article is really twisting things or the Dept of Health spokesperson is twisting things...

It's pretty simple if you are a caregiver, you can't have a caregiver.
It's completely understandable the logic - if you assigned a caregiver that must mean you can't care for yourself, so how in the world are you going to be able to care for someone else if you can't care for yourself.

But you can be a patient & a caregiver for someone else (that person though can't be caregiver for someone else...see above)

How is that difficult to understand?