The social care system is keeping pressure off the NHS, but those with carers are concerned they will be forgotten.
By the last months of Gordon's life, carers visited us six times a day, he used an electric wheelchair, and would drink through a straw.Yet it was amazing how fast our attitudes towards carers changed.After a few weeks I wouldn't blink if I came out of the shower in a towel and someone I'd never met was cleaning the hob.
Gordon's carers become our friends. Andrea was a guest at our wedding - in a slinky silver dress - and was the third wheel on our honeymoon to Paris.We spent hundreds of hours in each other's company. And when Gordon suddenly died, that stopped. So when she texted with concerns about coronavirus, I asked if we could pay the team a visit. It was an emotional day.One woman, a former professor named Barbara, was living with motor neurone disease, the same condition that killed my husband.
MND means her speech is now slurred, and difficult to understand. But one person who can translate for Barbara is her carer Laura who visits four times a day.
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