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I just had a phone conversation with my daughter: her husband arrived home yesterday after 3 months in rehab following his hemorrhagic stroke. And now she finds herself living in a house that is not her home anymore. Steve is unable to achieve anything on his own and the aide appears to lack the skills necessary to care for someone so debilitated. This will work itself out. One way or another. And as her mother and a caregiver to my husband, I still lack the right words to hand her that might ease her plight. Where in the media is information like this? We have our own Caregiver Space Communities but more often than not the advice we receive come from others in our position. They, too, have floundered and are finding their way. It seems to me that we need our own "Sanjay Gupta of caregivers" to help those of us in emotional turmoil. If more information was shared through the media the world might begin to understand the caregiver's plight. It is more than financial; it is emotional, spiritual and physical.

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