Caregivers must keep "a slice of selfishness," UW social worker
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 03:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Several years ago, Wendy Lustbader cut back her counseling, teaching and writing career to spend one year as a caregiver. Her mother-in-law, in the final stages of colon cancer, moved from Florida to be looked after by Lustbader and her husband at their home in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle.
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