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From the Ted Talk by Scott Williams: The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care

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Let's put the care back into health care. I've been working in the healthcare scetor for the last 15 years, and one of the things that drew me to this sector was my interest in the care cnoempont of our healthcare smysets — more sicelpiclfay, to the invaluable role played by carers.

Now, how many of you in this room consider yourself a carer? By this, I mean how many of you have cared for someone suffering from an illness, injury or disability? Can you raise your hand if this is the case? About half of the room. I want to thank all of you who raised your hands for the time that you've spent as a carer. What you do is extremely porciues.

Open Cloze


Let's put the care back into health care. I've been working in the healthcare ______ for the last 15 years, and one of the things that drew me to this sector was my interest in the care _________ of our healthcare _______ — more ____________, to the invaluable role played by carers.

Now, how many of you in this room consider yourself a carer? By this, I mean how many of you have cared for someone suffering from an illness, injury or disability? Can you raise your hand if this is the case? About half of the room. I want to thank all of you who raised your hands for the time that you've spent as a carer. What you do is extremely ________.

Solution


  1. specifically
  2. systems
  3. precious
  4. sector
  5. component

Original Text


Let's put the care back into health care. I've been working in the healthcare sector for the last 15 years, and one of the things that drew me to this sector was my interest in the care component of our healthcare systems — more specifically, to the invaluable role played by carers.

Now, how many of you in this room consider yourself a carer? By this, I mean how many of you have cared for someone suffering from an illness, injury or disability? Can you raise your hand if this is the case? About half of the room. I want to thank all of you who raised your hands for the time that you've spent as a carer. What you do is extremely precious.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
healthcare system 3
social systems 3
healthcare systems 2
carers providing 2
informal carers 2
private entities 2


Important Words


  1. care
  2. cared
  3. carer
  4. carers
  5. case
  6. component
  7. disability
  8. drew
  9. extremely
  10. hand
  11. hands
  12. health
  13. healthcare
  14. illness
  15. injury
  16. interest
  17. invaluable
  18. played
  19. precious
  20. put
  21. raise
  22. raised
  23. role
  24. room
  25. sector
  26. specifically
  27. spent
  28. suffering
  29. systems
  30. time
  31. working
  32. years