by Jana Panarites | Mar 26, 2020 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest |
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...
by Jana Panarites | Jan 16, 2020 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest |
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...
by Jana Panarites | Sep 19, 2019 | Podcasts |
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...
by Jana Panarites | Jul 25, 2019 | Podcasts |
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,...
by Jana Panarites | May 24, 2018 | Podcasts |
Why are conversations about death so hard? And how can we learn to say goodbye in a healthy way? Author Julie Saeger Nierenberg explores these and other tough questions in her book “Daddy, This Is It: Being-With My Dying Dad.” On today’s show, Julie tells us how...