Re:The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for...
by coldtea on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:40AM
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>In addition, taking care of these kinds of people is, in fact, a modern change--like within the last 100 years change. Before that, these people whose mind prevents them from meaningfully interacting with society ever again would have been left to die.
You'd be surprised. Families have tended to members with disabilities (body and/or mind), for millenia.
The "just put them in a hospice/asylum" and forget about them, is what's quite novel.
You'd be surprised. Families have tended to members with disabilities (body and/or mind), for millenia.
The "just put them in a hospice/asylum" and forget about them, is what's quite novel.