Past Caring by Audrey Jenkinson
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Publisher: Polperro Heritage PressAmazon Price: £8.95
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Actress Audrey Jenkinson was starring in a BBC television series when she put her career on hold and returned home to Edinburgh to care for her mother suffering from a stroke and her father with cancer. In Past Caring, she describes how she tried to cope with her parents deaths and recalls the void she felt at the time: ''I wondered how others coped in similar situations. When I discovered there were no books on the subject. I decided to write one.'' Audrey travelled throughout the UK. interviewing former carers and asking them how they rebuilt their lives.
''Concern for the carer is as important as concern for the patient. Past Caring tells why.'' Dame Judy Dench.