Frances Henke, Hastings, Australia Writing about the physical impact of caring for, then loss of, a spouse as a polio survivor may seem self-serving, but in this case, having talked to others, I realized there were valuable shared experiences worth passing on. When daily routines that match our abilities are suddenly added to, life can become debilitating. The person we …
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When the “Cared For” Becomes the “Caregiver”
Audrey King presented at FICCDAT Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011 I found my mother’s diary recently – the one she kept during the 1950s when we were an Army family living in England. She’ll be 100 in 8 weeks. She lives with me, deaf, unable to walk & rapidly losing weight. She has dementia which roller coasters between inconsolable agitation …