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                                                                        16,000 people missing.
        The Holistic
        Experience               FOCUS is asking for help in making contact with carers in Swindon, writes Gillian Barber, director
      For calm inner          Carers are people who look after  carers live in Swindon with 4,000  for Carers - for goodness sake get
                              partners, family or friends who  of them providing significant lev-  in touch with your local Carers
            peace             are unable to manage alone be-  els of care, i.e. over 50 hours a week.  Centre. You don't have to take all
                              cause of illness (including mental  FOCUS is in regular contact with  the help they offer but take the
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                              illness), frailty or disability. The  1,000 carers and is asking every-  help you need. You can't cope with
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