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Improving the quality of life for older people in Bray is at the forefront of the Great Care Co-op (GCC) which is a radically new approach to home care in Ireland established by carers who have worked in the sector.
Could we care less about people who care? At some point we all need care. Why is it so undervalued?
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We all start life needing care. If we live long enough, many of us end up needing care and at some point in the middle we will likely be responsible for the care of others. Care and caring should be at the centre of how we think about our culture, but it’s frequently treated as an afterthought or an aberration. We are strangely in denial about how much caring work is required to make our society function.