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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Independent and Lauren MacDougall

Voices: ‘We are keeping people alive longer, not living longer’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

Andy Burnham’s vow to overhaul England’s social care system, and his own emotional account of his father’s care for Alzheimer’s, prompted an outpouring of deeply personal responses from Independent readers.

Our community shared their own experience of caring for a parent, a partner, or a sibling – from a devastating account of a wife’s decline in a care home to a mother’s carer since childhood.

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