Monthly fees amounting to roughly half the expense of stabling, feeding and caring for a horse are attracting the same folk who are sought after for time-share properties.

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And I make a very good salary, but just going through caring for my mother the last year and a half, and before that, my father, who, thank God, lived to ripe old ages -- it was -- it's not easy.

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Just under half (46%) of the local authorities in England, caring for some 69, 000 people with learning disabled people, responded to the survey.

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"Caring for Mike had been our life... and half the kids' life, " says Karen in an email.

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Last week, I wrote about an important new survey of family caregivers that shows nearly half are performing work that is often done by nurses, such as managing medications, caring for wounds, and operating medical equipment.

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