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‘I Put My Own Life on Hold’: The Pain and Joy of Caring for Parents

By Aidan Gardiner — 2019

After The Times published a pair of articles on elder care—one about a Connecticut home health aide and another about women forgoing careers to care for older relatives—hundreds of our readers shared their own experiences with the hardships of trying to make the final years of a loved one’s life comfortable.

Read on www.nytimes.com

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Cancer and Finances—Linda’s Story

Financial hardship often accompanies a cancer diagnosis. Linda shares her experiences and insights about managing questions with employment and finances that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.

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2020
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Why Might Good People Deliver Bad Care? | Yvonne Sawbridge | TEDxUniversityofBirmingham

Yvonne Sawbridge says that caring professionals offer hard, emotional work. In the same way in which physical labour is recognised and accounted for in management practice, emotional labour needs to be recognised as a role requirement for nurses and other caring professions.

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2015
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

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Elizabeth Lesser
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