Like many others I expect, I’ve been watching too much TV news. As a consequence I’ve been troubling about the state of care. the nature of care, what it means to care, to be a carer and to be cared for. These are challenging times.
During the last year, as a nation, we’ve all been compelled to confront the need for ‘care’ in our society - in care homes, care for the sick and frail, as well as care for working families and children of all ages. Now, as well as healthcare, care more broadly has become very publicly an economic, a political and a moral priority. However, some of the language used about care and care contexts does little to exemplify the substance of the work. ‘Caring’ and ‘Carer’ have become such banal sounding terms that they really belie the complex nature of care practices.
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