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Iterations and Variations
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In the waning years of this past
century, we started to gather information for our first
book, The Fearless Caregiver. (Wow, does that feel like
a century ago!) We asked some of the best voices
of the day who were talking about caregiving to join us.
We also included the first caregiving celebrity
interviews since it became clear that our caregiving
experiences are truly the
Ties that Bind us all together, and these caregivers
with famous faces had a lot of great information to
share.
It was also becoming clear that a
vitally important, yet under-regarded, political voice
was that of the family caregiver. I remember giving a
keynote speech in Ohio talking about the powerful
political wave of support that can be formed if all 67.5
million of us raised our voices to our local, state and
national representatives.
After my speech, I sat down for lunch
next to an Ohio state senator who said that he was most
moved to action when he would receive (his words) a
hastily written note of concern written by a constituent
on a paper grocery bag (see how long ago it was) and
mailed to his office. He said that if that
caregiver took the time to write to him, he or she
probably represented a sizable number of voters in his
district and he needed to pay attention.
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