Lads and lasses, if you can tear yourself away from AIBU, how about pitching a proper feature about what happens when the partners of elderly people who become their carers, then become cognitively impaired?
How do families and GPs handle this - or not? Are there GPs and social service depts that will take action to protect the person who was being cared for, and the carer who is no longer able to remember how to do the job of caring?
Because it's happening more and more and it's frightening if you're the family left without information or support.
Elderly parents
I wish a journalist would write about this
PermanentTemporary · 24/02/2023 17:56
pompomdaisy · 28/02/2023 17:30
I don't work in social services but I know there are many many caring staff but they are battling a broken system. No funding or resources. Please don't say they don't give a shit. The government clearly don't give a shit! The many people who work in social care mostly do.
ThoseDamnCrows · 25/02/2023 20:49
In my own experience the local Social Services team couldn't have cared less. They knew very well what was going on in my parents house and could see what was happening to the 80 year old carer, but they did nothing.
I was begging for help and I didn't receive any. I cannot put into words what I think of those people.
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