by Jana Panarites | Oct 5, 2017 | Podcasts |
As an elected official in Southern California, Hector De La Torre expanded access to doctors in underserved communities and he helped protect consumers from retroactive cancellation of their health insurance. Now Executive Director of the Transamerica Center For...
by Jana Panarites | Sep 7, 2017 | Podcasts |
We often think of caregiving as something only adults do, but in the US there are at least 1.3 million youth caregivers (ages 8 to 18), many of them forced to drop out of school to provide care to a family member. That’s what happened when a surgical error left...
by Jana Panarites | Jun 8, 2017 | Aging Well |
I’m old enough to remember watching the televised Watergate hearings, and today’s live broadcast of former FBI Director James Comey testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee was no less riveting. It was so hard to look away from the television, I nearly...
by Jana Panarites | Apr 27, 2017 | Podcasts |
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 she was carrying the fatal gene. In today’s show, Melissa talks about the events leading up to her...
by Jana Panarites | Mar 2, 2017 | Podcasts |
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. She reflects on why her social media posts remained cheery even as she struggled offline with caring...