Looking After Her Parents 'Was a Joy' but Olga Also Knows How Difficult It Is ; Olga Marr Spent More Than a Decade Caring for Her Father and Then Her Mother in the Final Years of Their Lives and Became Involved in Derby Caribbean Association of Carers As a Result, Becoming Chairwoman. She Spoke to Health Correspondent Kate Liptrot to Mark National Carers Week.

Derby Evening Telegraph › June 17, 2010

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AS Olga Marr's father lay dying in bed, he had a weight on his mind.

Donald Percy knew his wife, Irene, had serious heart problems but, with just days left to live, he could do nothing to help her.

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Looking After Her Parents 'Was a Joy' but Olga Also Knows How Difficult It Is ; Olga Marr Spent More Than a Decade Caring for Her Father and Then Her Mother in the Final Years of Their Lives and Became Involved in Derby Caribbean Association of Carers As a Result, Becoming Chairwoman. She Spoke to Health Correspondent Kate Liptrot to Mark National Carers Week.

So he turned to Olga and made her promise to look after her mother the way she had looked after him.

And that is exactly what she did for the next 10 years.

That experience of looking after both parents meant she was well- qualified as the chairwoman of ...

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