Invisible Hands, Unseen Hearts: A Migrant Carer in Britain A memoir of elder care, quiet dignity, and an Eastern European worker's search for home
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ePUB
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Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Altersempfehlung
1 - 99 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
18.12.2025
Verlag
EpubliSeitenzahl
181 (Printausgabe)
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312 KB
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3. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9783565134458
She left her small Eastern European town with a nursing certificate, a borrowed suitcase, and a promise to send money home. In Britain, her job title was simple-"care worker"-but nothing about the work, or the life around it, felt simple at all.
In this intimate memoir, an Eastern European caregiver recounts years spent in English care homes and private houses, tending to strangers at the end of their lives. She bathes them, feeds them, changes their dressings, and listens to stories no one else has time to hear. Between medication schedules and night shifts, she discovers fragile, unexpected friendships with the elderly people in her care-relationships that slowly reshape her understanding of family, duty, and love.
Yet outside the bedroom door, another story unfolds: agency exploitation, zero-hours contracts, casual racism, and the quiet stigma of being "just a migrant worker." She is trusted with Britain's parents and grandparents, but rarely treated as a full human being herself. Torn between guilt for the family she left behind and attachment to the people she now cares for, she lives in a permanent in-between: not fully at home in either country.
Told with tenderness, honesty, and dry humour, this memoir gives a voice to those who keep aging societies functioning while remaining almost invisible. It is a story for anyone who has ever cared for someone vulnerable, questioned what "home" really means, or wondered about the inner lives of the workers behind the uniform.
In this intimate memoir, an Eastern European caregiver recounts years spent in English care homes and private houses, tending to strangers at the end of their lives. She bathes them, feeds them, changes their dressings, and listens to stories no one else has time to hear. Between medication schedules and night shifts, she discovers fragile, unexpected friendships with the elderly people in her care-relationships that slowly reshape her understanding of family, duty, and love.
Yet outside the bedroom door, another story unfolds: agency exploitation, zero-hours contracts, casual racism, and the quiet stigma of being "just a migrant worker." She is trusted with Britain's parents and grandparents, but rarely treated as a full human being herself. Torn between guilt for the family she left behind and attachment to the people she now cares for, she lives in a permanent in-between: not fully at home in either country.
Told with tenderness, honesty, and dry humour, this memoir gives a voice to those who keep aging societies functioning while remaining almost invisible. It is a story for anyone who has ever cared for someone vulnerable, questioned what "home" really means, or wondered about the inner lives of the workers behind the uniform.
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