Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring, The

divdivMillions of people, often unnoticed by the rest of us, provide unpaid care for disabled or elderly relatives, friends, or neighbors. Their job is long, lonely, and hard, yet there is limited support and no formal training. As a result, carers suffer frequent damage to physical and mental health. Oddly, though carers by definition are anything but "selfish pigs," they are liable to feelings of guilt, often brought on by fatigue and isolation. So Hugh Marriott has written this book for them—and also for the rest of us who don't know what being a carer is all about. His aim is to bring into the open everything he wishes he'd been told when he first became a carer. And he does. Throughout, he airs topics that are often ignored, including how to deal with the responses of those who fail to understand. /div/div