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Clarice Jones

Hello, Liz.

Liz Randall

Morning.

Clarice Jones

Oh, you got your hair up. You have.

Liz Randall

Thank you.

Clarice Jones

I'm all right.

Liz Randall

Oh, good.

Clarice Jones

[INAUDIBLE]

Liz Randall

Excellent. [Laughs]

Clarice Jones

It is excellent, isn't it? Yes, because I thought I might be bad.

They say if you have carers to look after you in the mornings, then you stay out of a home. And that's the main thing, because I don't want to go in a home. So that's why I have them. And I like them. They tend to me very well, you know. So I'm comfortable with them. Yes.

Liz Randall

The care plan for Clarice is personal - helping her to wash, dress. She actually does her own breakfast - make a cup of coffee. She has that seven days a week, but just a morning call. She doesn't have evening care. As soon as she's up and dressed, then she sort of muddles on herself through the day. And she likes to do that, so that's why she only has morning care.

Clarice Jones

She comes an hour on Monday and gives me a bath. So that takes time. And Friday, I have a bath. And then Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, I have half an hour. And then I have an hour shopping on Wednesday.

If I want extra and I ring Tracy up, she will fix it up that one of them will push me in and give me an extra half an hour. Yes. Definitely so. If I'm really bad, you know, and I can't even go out there and make a sandwich or anything, she'll fix something up.

She really knows me. She knows everything that I want to do and every comfort. You know, and even to the shopping, she knows my shopping list better than I do, really.

Liz Randall

No rice pudding this week?

Clarice Jones

No, I got enough of that.

Liz Randall

You've got enough of that.

Clarice Jones

They took her off me for a little while in the summer, and I complained. I said, look, I'm paying for it, why can't I have who I choose? The one that replaced her was very nice, but she wasn't Liz. And the boss saw that I had her back. And that's much better now. I'm comfortable again now.

Liz Randall

She's a very nice lady. I'm quite fond of her, but it still has to stay professional. When I say goodbye to her, you know, I have no more contact with her ’til the following morning.

Clarice Jones

That'll be that, won't it?

Liz Randall

Okie cokie.

Clarice Jones

See you tomorrow then.

Liz Randall

Yeah

She probably thinks of me as her friend. And while I'm there, yes, although I'm caring for her, I am a friend as well. But that's where it stops. When I leave her house, I go on to do my next – wherever I'm going. And that's where it stops.

Bye.

Clarice Jones

By, dear. Bye.