by Jana Panarites | May 4, 2017 | Podcasts |
Canadian author Rick Lauber is among a growing number of male caregivers who provide support alone or with the help of siblings. In today’s show, Rick talks about moving his parents from Vancouver Island closer to his home in Edmonton, co-caregiving with his two...
by Jana Panarites | Jan 26, 2017 | Podcasts |
AARP local offices have their work cut out for them in the state of Florida, where the percentage of residents age 65 or older is higher than anywhere else in America. And as retiring baby boomers flock to the Sunshine State, that percentage is expected to grow and...
by Jana Panarites | Jun 9, 2016 | Podcasts |
An update on last summer’s interview with a New Yorker named Tim, whose dad is in the late stages of Parkinson’s disease and whose stoic mother refused outside help until recently. Tim talks about what’s changed with his parents since we last spoke with him, why his...
by Jana Panarites | Jun 2, 2016 | Podcasts |
CELEBRATING OUR 50th EPISODE! Laura Katz Olson is a professor of political science at Lehigh University who has studied aging policies in the US for over three decades and published widely in the field of aging and health care. But not even her deep knowledge could...
by Jana Panarites | Feb 18, 2016 | Podcasts |
When her father crawled out of a window in the middle of the night, Lisa Howland had to make a thousand calculations at once to coax him back inside her house. What happened next was equally harrowing for this only child of divorced parents, whose father—a retired...