Episode 134: Millennial Caregiver Lisette Carbajal
Lisette Carbajal was sitting in her dorm room at the University of Virginia when her mother called, crying as she told her Lisette’s father had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In that moment Lisette—the daughter of Peruvian immigrants who speak little...Why 14% of Millennial Caregivers Stop Working
We often think of caregiving as something done mostly by baby boomers, but a new report titled, Millennials and Dementia Caregiving in the United States highlights the reality that millennial caregivers account for almost one out of four caregivers for those with any...Grown-Up Pains
When her mother was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease, 29-year-old writer Melissa Bilchik had to decide whether she too should be tested: there was a 50/50 chance Melissa was carrying the gene for this progressive brain disease. In today’s show, Melissa talks...Episode 115: The Fixer
Writer Brandi Neal was twenty-nine years old and living in Maine when she dropped everything and flew to Arizona to help care for her ailing father, a Vietnam War veteran who disappeared from Brandi’s life when she was twelve. In today’s show, Brandi shares her mixed...Scattered
Scattered: My Year As An Accidental Caregiver is available in paperback and eBook at
Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
