“Caring for someone you love is a real privilege fraught with sorrow,” said one contributor to our Guardian Witness project about unpaid caring. “And some self-pity, which is fought off relentlessly. For my wife and I as parents, it is a life sentence. We will be doing this until the day we die.”
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Fourteen Cornish Charities Get Grants Cut
10:14am 8th July 2014
Pressure is going to be increased on carers
Fourteen Cornish charities are having their grants cut.
It is as Cornwall Council is scrapping a number of adult social care services.
Three’s a crowd: Living with your lover and their carer
How easy is life with an outsider always in your home?
Zoe Hallam was living with her boyfriend Will Iles in university halls of residence as well as having 24 hour care
If your partner is disabled, they might also have a full-time carer. So how easy is life with an outsider always in your home?
“It took me a while to get used to waking in the morning to see a stranger lift my girlfriend out of bed and dress her,” says Will Iles, a market analyst from London. He and his girlfriend Zoe Hallam were living in halls at Oxford University back then and the situation with the stranger, her care assistant, was made even more cosy because it was a single bed the couple were sharing.
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