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This morning, while Catherine Guillouard, the boss of the RATP resigns to take care of her elderly parents, I am in the shoes of a caregiver. A word in the feminine, because we are overwhelmingly women: around 65%. Even 80% when it comes to caring for elderly parents.

I am 39 years old on average and, most often, I help without knowing it, without putting words to it, because it seems natural to me to help a parent, a child, a disabled relative, or at the end of life. . Even if it means forgetting me, even if it means dying sometimes: one caregiver in three dies before the person being helped. Because being a helper means going to see your parents, before and after work, at lunchtime, shopping, dressing them, washing them… Taking on two days in one.

>> INFO FRANCEINFO. Only a quarter of caregivers declare their situation to their employer

It’s accompanying your spouse who begins to search for his words before forgetting who he is. But it can also be taking care of a handicapped child, a life of sacrifices, a career that one abandons. It means being there permanently, because the slightest absence is synonymous with danger. A life that no one chooses, without rest and without respite…

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