Episode 190 – Nancy Picard: Caregiving in a Crisis
Like many adult children, psychologist Nancy Picard is determined to prevent her aging parents from contracting COVID-19. But Nancy and her parents live in separate states. So she’s in daily communication with them, and has wired up their house with...Episode 189 – Eugenia Zukerman: Like Falling Through a Cloud
Renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman has performed in concerts and recitals all over the world. She was the artistic director of Colorado’s Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival for 13 years, and the arts correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning for over 25 years. And...Episode 188 – Jason Resendez: LatinosAgainstAlzheimer’s
Growing up in Alice, Texas, Jason Resendez didn’t have any experience with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. But more recently dementia has started to become an issue in his family. Now the issue has come full circle: as Executive...Episode 187 – Leslie Gray Streeter: Black Widow
Veteran writer Leslie Gray Streeter established a loyal readership through her Palm Beach Post column, “That Girl.” Now a general entertainment columnist at the Post, her writing for the newspaper began in the early 2000s and eventually included...Medication Overload: Time For An Action Plan
In the last two decades the number of people age 65 or older who are taking five or more medications has increased 300 percent. A problem that is much bigger than America’s opioid crisis, the scope and impact of over-prescribing in older adults is detailed in...Episode 186: VIP Care Management With Sonja Kobrin
Geriatric Care Manager Sonja Kobrin was in her twenties when she began caring for the grandparents who raised her. She had no help and was traumatized by the experience, but it informed her approach years later, when she cared for the biological father who had...Episode 185: LGBTQ Sandwich Generation
Brent Wright is one of 64 million sandwich generation Americans who simultaneously cared for an aging parent and his kids, all under the same roof. What made their setup unusual? His mom moved in with Brent and his husband, Sandis, plus their two daughters. Brent...Autism Village Founder Topher Wurts
One in 68 children born in the US today is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. The vast majority of them are being raised by single moms, and boys make up roughly three-quarters of those diagnosed. Faced with these and other alarming statistics, Topher...Episode 184 – Shaista Kazmi: Serving Elderly Ethnic Minorities
Michigan resident Shaista Kazmi has firsthand knowledge of the isolation and guilt felt by millions of family caregivers. But as a Pakistani Muslim, she’s had the added challenge of finding culturally competent home health aides for her elderly family...Episode 183 – Suzanne Garber: Unraveling Global Healthcare
Single Payer, Medicare For All, Universal Healthcare – as these phrases get tossed around the presidential debate stage we get real with Suzanne Garber, whose documentary film, “Gauze: Unraveling Global Healthcare” compares and contrasts healthcare...Episode 182 – Cynthia Lim: Carving a New Path After Loss
LA resident Cynthia Lim, author of the book, “Wherever You Are: A Memoir of Love, Marriage and Brain Injury,” returns to the show a year after our first interview to talk about how her life has changed since the death of her husband, Perry. Retired from...Episode 181: Elissa Altman on “Motherhood: A Memoir of Love, Loathing and Longing”
What happens when a gay, middle-aged daughter who has never gotten along with her makeup-addicted, former television singer mother is suddenly thrust into the role of her caregiver? That’s the subject of James Beard Award-winning food writer Elissa...Episode 180: Millennial Caregiver Adrienne Glusman
Adrienne Glusman always knew she would have to care for her mother at some point. It just happened 30 years sooner than she expected. An only child of divorced parents, Adrienne was 29 years old and traveling the world in between waitressing gigs in New York City...Episode 179: Contemplative Caregiving with Dr. John Eric Baugher
Pioneering educator and researcher Dr. John Eric Baugher was just eighteen years old when his mother was murdered. Filled with rage, John felt he was fated to join his mother’s killer in life imprisonment. Not behind bars, but behind psychological walls...Valerie Bourdain: Finding Shelter in the Storm of Cancer
In a span of five years, Nebraska native Valerie Bourdain lost her daughter to adrenal cancer, her mother to lung cancer and her father to Chronic Lymphomatic Leukemia (CLL). Midway through their daughter’s cancer journey, Valerie’s husband left the marriage. ...Episode 178 – Before It’s Too Late
In 1996, Mike O’Krent became a volunteer interviewer for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the largest oral history project captured on video in the world. The experience of interviewing Holocaust survivors rocked Mike’s world...Episode 177 – Janet Elsbach: Caring, Connecting & Building Community One Dish At A Time
Janet Elsbach was raised by people who did a lot of cooking, but she didn’t go to professional cooking school. A home cook inspired by seasonal food, the cravings of those she loves to feed and the idea of bringing people together at the table, Janet...Episode 176 – What Would The Patient Want?
What happens when a family member or friend is incapacitated and they’re counting on you to make a healthcare decision for them? Do you take the doctor’s advice for treatment? Or do you push back, knowing the patient would never want the treatment the...Judith Henry: The Dutiful Daughter’s Guide to Caregiving
When Judith Henry’s parents became ill in 2007, not even her reputation as a pragmatist, a planner and responsible eldest sibling could prepare her for what lay ahead. But Judith had one advantage: around age ten she had played a caregiving role for her mother,...Episode 175 – Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke
Being able to speak and write were central to Debra Meyerson’s career as a tenured professor at Stanford University, where her work revolved around diversity, gender, identity and organizational change. But when she suffered a severe stroke that nearly killed...When Is It Time To Stop Driving?
Former Ohio state trooper Matt Gurwell spent 20-plus years delivering bad news to family members about accidents involving older drivers. Now instead of delivering death notifications, he’s helping to preserve family relationships and saving lives with a...Episode 174 – Liz O’Donnell on her book “Working Daughter: How to Care for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living”
THE AGEWYZ PODCAST IS CELEBRATING ITS FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING OVER THE YEARS! There are lots of books on the market about balancing career and children, but where do you turn for advice on balancing career and aging parents? With 10,000 people...Jay Perry: Journeying Through Cancer
Award-winning Canadian photographer Jay Perry dodged burning cars in Haiti after the country’s devastating 2010 earthquake, he’s had Haitian rebels point their guns in his direction and he’s driven across the country in a cramped van eating and drinking off four...Episode 173 – Aisha Adkins on Millennial Caregiving
Did you know that Millennial caregivers make up nearly a quarter of America’s 44 million family caregivers? One of them is Atlanta writer and dementia care advocate Aisha Adkins. An only child and African American who grew up in a predominantly white...Scattered
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