Carers Week 2015: Radio turns the spotlight on invisible workforce
Posted: 11 Jun 2015, 15:52Thursday 11 June 2015
I lost count of the times I cried
Three years ago I received a series of phone calls in the night. My 85-year-old aunt, who suffered from advanced dementia, had fallen over in her bedroom. Her carer, Tsitsi, had heard the crash, wrapped her in blankets and called an ambulance. The paramedics took four hours to arrive, so Tsitsi sat with her and called me hourly with updates on her condition.