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An opinion piece by Tim Cocking, director at Bright Care. Sometimes, more often than I have the right to expect, I see a carer in my employ connect with the older person she is looking after with a spark which reminds me of Michelangelo’s wonderful image in the Sistine Chapel of God reaching out to Adam. There is a bridge between them, a generational gulf crossed, a natural understanding which the carer brings freely to the job. It is the result of a simple kindness, a goodness of heart which cannot be taught and which is not dependent on qualifications or authorisation. It is the kind of attitude to which...