BBC News - Care job vacancies in England rise to 110,000 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45593814 … Women I know increasingly leaving work to care for parents
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Replying to @PhyllisStein2 @C7RKY
or trying to earn a living whilst caring! Package handed back, agency w/this postcode contract says "no capacity". That's it folks. Extra day care does nothing for me (tho he loves it!). So much for carer's assessment. Official complaint outbound
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Alarming as daughter is main wage earner in her family with kids coming up to university age. No way would I let her do this.
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the remaining choice is institutional care. Personally I cldnt live with that so I do both. For as long as I can anyway
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I am an unpaid carer. My kid would die in an institution. Others I know have put their disabled kids in
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Snap. I don't think my son would last the first week in such 'care' facilities. Over my dead body would be the only way he'd find himself in such a place. I just hope I can guide him to personal independence before that day arrives. The alternative is unthinkable for me.
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At least if you love them it is far easier. I pity the women I know who are looking after in-laws.
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Replying to @PhyllisStein2 @C7RKY and
I don't know any men doing that, some caring for their own parents but not their in-laws
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I couldn't have contemplated that,I'm afraid
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Me neither
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It's not a situation I face, (both sadly passed away), but I can imagine what you mean. It's challenging enough when it's unconditional.
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