Care Responsibilities Quotes

Alzheimer's is a family disease...It requires countless hours of care, which are typically provided by family caregivers...Wi thout professional help, it can be impossible to juggle providing that care with jobs, raising kids or just time for yourself.

Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.

Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives.

Too many families know what it's like to have to choose between providing care for a family member and keeping their job.

We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more than a genetic imperative.

Whether we have a new baby, a sick parent or an injured spouse, taking time off to care for our family member or ourselves is a need almost every one of us experiences during some point in our lives. This is true no matter where people live, what their income level is, or what kind of job they do.

I've been a young carer, an adult carer and a parent carer.

It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.