by Jana Panarites | Jun 13, 2019 | Podcasts |
Did you know that Millennial caregivers make up nearly a quarter of America’s 44 million family caregivers? One of them is Atlanta writer and dementia care advocate Aisha Adkins. An only child and African American who grew up in a predominantly white...
by Jana Panarites | May 2, 2019 | Podcasts |
In the next fifty years the population of Americans over age 65 will double. Where do millennials fit in? That’s the question posed by filmmaker and visual journalist Sky Dylan-Robbins in her documentary short for NBC Left Field titled, “Millennials Stepping...
by Jana Panarites | May 17, 2018 | Podcasts |
Filmmaker and visual journalist Sky Dylan-Robbins talks about her documentary short for NBC Left Field, “Millennials Stepping Up: How Will We Take Care of Our Parents?” At this pivotal moment in society, where in the next thirty years the population of...
by Jana Panarites | Mar 29, 2018 | Podcasts |
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...
by Jana Panarites | Dec 21, 2017 | Podcasts |
Twenty years ago, when author Joy Loverde began thinking about writing her new book, “Who Will Take Care of Me When I’m Old?” the timing wasn’t right. Back then people were still grappling with the concept of elder care, and Joy’s book “The Complete Eldercare...