A carer's day is made up of visits, tasks, medication, meals, personal care, and mobility support. Official paperwork calls it a care plan, but what matters is that it all happens against a backdrop of a relationship. Rarely does that truth appear on the official paperwork.
For people receiving home care who are living alone, their relationship with their carer is often the most important part of their day or week. That sounds like sentimental exaggeration until you realise that, for many, their carer is often the only face-to-face human contact. They might be immobile, or they might have friends who have passed away, or their family might be scattered across the country, but then the carer arrives, and suddenly, there is human contact.
The carer might ask about their former professi...