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Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

Update: 2021-10-18

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Maliha Ahmed was an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying linguistics, when she began working as a caregiver. From the good moments to the bad, the experience of working with people in need in their homes taught her a lot about the complicated dynamics of care. In this installment of The Tactile World, we talk with Ahmed about how many spoons it takes to get a cell phone fixed.

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Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory

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