Jennifer Levin: Caring for Dad at 32

by | Oct 25, 2018 | Podcasts | 0 comments

New Yorker Jennifer Levin talks about how becoming a caregiver for her father at age 32 changed her and why she wrote about her experience in Cosmopolitan digital magazine.  Initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, Jennifer’s father was eventually diagnosed with...

Episode 91: A New Normal

by | Apr 6, 2017 | Podcasts | 0 comments

A year ago on the podcast Lisa Howland told of quitting her job to be a full-time caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson’s disease, and of hiding the knives in her house because of his increasingly aggressive behavior — associated with his later diagnosis...