We recently had the opportunity to review “The Daughter Trap” by Laurel Kennedy. In her book Laurel champions the need for a “superhero” – she urgies caregivers of adults to stop suffering in silence, and the need for high profile figures who can bring to the fore the plight of caregivers and the growing need to highlight eldercare issues and the stress of caring for a loved one suffering with dementia. Former UK ITN presenter John Suchet is just that. Last year he announced his wife Bonnie had dementia. The reaction –
“It was a tsunami. I received hundreds of thousand of e-mails and letters from all across the world, all from carers saying that’s what we’re going through. Thank you for talking about it.”
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