Our benefits system, while excellent, puts carers at a disadvantage.
Three in five people will become carers at some point in their lives.
Three in five of us will become carers at some point in our lives.
There was a couple, Cissy and her husband, who were sort of carers at the home.
More information for those with dementia, their families and carers at the earliest possible stage after diagnosis.
As a result, three in five of us, the charity suggests, will become carers at some point in our lives.
Applications for any additional funding are appallingly complex, take hours to fill in and are thrust on family carers at a time of great stress.
Earlier this year, a disability charity in Scotland was criticised for paying some carers at its homes £2.50 an hour for "sleepover shifts".
Though prone to falling in love with his carers, at 38, O'Brien found himself still a virgin – so he employed the services of a professional sex surrogate (more medical worker than prostitute).
These new rules will make it even more difficult for people in social housing to become foster carers at a time when we urgently need more to come forward.
For all his personal experience, expressions of paternal goodwill towards the disabled and fraternal concern for their carers, at the first clanging of the alarm bells his instinct was to scarper, and leave them in the stairwell to burn.
