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Careworkers are not carers.
Mag Ratte Started conversation Mar 9, 2004
Please, get this right, if you get nothing else right. Carers do it for free. A careworker does the job, and goes home. Some people have started saying "carer" when they used to say "home help". This is to hide the fact that what were home helps no longer do much domestic work at all.
A carer doesn't get to go home. A carer doesn't get time off at night. A carer isn't paid. A carer desn't get sick leave. A carer doesn't get a pension or insurance. A carer is mainly self-taught, but an expert (after a few years) in the condition(s) affecting his/her caree, and won't have deliberately chosen what he or she does as their job.
I have nothing against careworkers, but please leave carers their own title!
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Careworkers are not carers.
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