Episode 95: Best Foot Forward

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...

Episode 51: Then and Now

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...

Episode 50: Aha Moments

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...

Episode 35: Life, Interrupted

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...