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The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring: How to Cope with the Emotional and Practical Aspects of Caring for Someone - Softcover
Six million people in the UK, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends or neighbours. Their job is long, lonely and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health. Oddly, though carers by definition are anything but selfish pigs, they are liable to feelings of guilt, probably brought on by fatigue and isolation. So Hugh Marriott has written this book for them - and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. His aim is bring into the open everything he wishes he'd been told when he first became a carer. And he does. The book airs such topics as sex, thoughts of murder, and dealing with the responses of friends and officials who fail to understand. This is a must-read for anyone involved with caring.
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'A splendid new books for carers.' --The Times
'The reaction from readers of the book has been amazing.' --Take Care
'We have needed this book for 20 years. I wish I had been able to read it when I first became a carer' --Alison Ryan, Chief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
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'The reaction from readers of the book has been amazing.' --Take Care
'We have needed this book for 20 years. I wish I had been able to read it when I first became a carer' --Alison Ryan, Chief Executive, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers
A book awaited by millions of people in the UK. The Selfish Pig’s Guide to Caring is the first no-nonsense guide for the huge and growing number of people who provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives or neighbours.
Lack of information and support has been identified as the most common cause of physical and mental health problems for carers. And yet six million people are already caring, and every one of us has a three-in-five chance of becoming a carer.
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- PublisherPiatkus Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0749929863
- ISBN 13 9780749929862
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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