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"I've had care workers come to the house, they don't care. And I don't really mind that they don't care. I just want them to respect her. And to recognise her as an individual, with her own contributions to make."
"As long as someone who lives down the road in the poorest area cannot afford to pay for the most expensive private care which is available, they're missing something. Someone is getting specialised care or specialised support that the other person is not getting. So that imbalance remains. "
"There are a lot of old people who don't have anyone. They come into hospital and they do not have anyone who can speak for them. And that's a scary position to be in."
"One of our ladies is a quadriplegic. She's been in palliative care quite a few times. And they basically leave them. ‘Oh, well, does it really matter?’"
"If you've got dementia, or a learning disability, that's how I feel. You don't matter."
"In the antenatal period, nobody was really aware of what that might be like for a lesbian. At a time when people weren't really out about being gay and lesbian parents. "
"There's huge health inequalities for autistic women. Not just getting a diagnosis, but getting any healthcare after you have been diagnosed. Because all of a sudden everything becomes your autism, the broken leg, the scratch on your finger. It's all autism."
"I was just being told either ‘This is normal, you're a woman, get on with it’, or ‘This is because you're depressed and you want to be a mum, this is the way that your body is physically emanating your depression’. And I wanted to throw those operation notes in...read more