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‘It’s brutal’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

As Andy Burnham vows to overhaul social care, our readers shared the raw reality of caring for a loved one, from the exhausting grind of professional care work to a devastating account of watching a wife decline, day after day, in a care home

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‘It’s brutal’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

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‘It’s brutal’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

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‘It’s brutal’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

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‘You have to sit quietly until you die’: The families failed by England’s social care system

'Burnham's social care reform must work to stop millions of families suffering'

'Burnham's social care reform must work to stop millions of families suffering'

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‘It’s brutal’: Readers on the true cost of caring for a loved one

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