For Barbara, the experience broadens people’s minds.
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I simply believe in the value of caregiving. I think that the experience of caregiving broadens people’s minds and their life’s experience. I mean, I can talk to people and I know they have never been there. They haven’t done that, because they live life at a slightly untouched level, whereas caregivers of adults have a different level of awareness, of what happens in life and death. Somehow […] you look at people at a different level once you’ve been a caregiver
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