I want to thank everyone on the NHS front line, as well as care workers and those carrying out essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all.
These kinds of public investments are integral to rebooting and achieving sustainable economic growth as expanding quality care services creates jobs and increases support for unpaid caregivers.
In every caregiver that we train, I see the triumphs and the struggles of my mother caring for my grandmother through a debilitating neurological condition.
It's hard work of thousand and thousand of health professionals, of caregivers, and of people who have thought all along those years " How can I do better today than yesterday? "
There was a 2020 report by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP's Public Policy Institute, which found that 61 percent of caregivers are women, and some estimates put that number as high as 80 percent.
She was a home care worker but now has no regular income, and she tells us anything she does earn doesn't go far because of that inflation you mentioned.