A recent survey found that many family carers of people with learning
disabilities feel at breaking point, and a lack of respite care is
often central to this. Editor Dan Parton reports.
For Hayley Goleniowska, it was only when her body gave out and she
ended up with a facial palsy that she realised she needed a break from
constantly caring for her young daughter, Natty, who has Down’s
syndrome.
The facial palsy was caused by stress and exhaustion; Goleniowska hadn’t had a break of any sort since Natty had been born.
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