Donna Thompson began as actor, director and teacher. She became disability activist, author, consultant and writer in 1988, when her son Nicholas was born with severe disabilities. She blogs on "The Caregivers' Living Room", www.donnathomson.com. She discusses her own experience of family caregiving, and her book, ‘The Four Walls of My Freedom: Lessons I've Learned From a Life of Caregiving’, and why she wrote it. She compares Britain and Canada for the names given to family caregivers, the roles in which they are recognized, and the support they receive. She compares the two countries for the
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