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| Subject: Demented: One in 10 dementia carers think about killing a loved one Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:15 am | |
| "It's tiring, it's exhausting, it's never-ending. It just got to the point that I was just thinking it would be so much easier if it was all over," says Sandra* of the nearly 15 years she spent caring for her father at home.
He had Alzheimer's disease, and in the whole time he lived with her she had only one night away from him.
Sandra is among the many carers who hide what they feel is an unspeakable secret: they have wished their loved one were no longer living.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/one-in-10-dementia-carers-think-about-killing-a-loved-one-study-20150722-gii5fw.html#ixzz3ggVwmeTB |
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