These caregivers in Singapore are getting on in age – and they’re trying to push their adult children with disabilities to learn to live a life without them. “I always tell him: ‘I’m teaching you to do things. If not, when I die, who’s going to look after you?’” said Madam Lim, the 73-year-old mother of 42-year-old Ernest Wong, who has cerebral palsy.
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