Grown-Up Pains

by | Nov 30, 2017 | Podcasts | 0 comments

 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

by | Oct 12, 2017 | Podcasts | 0 comments

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...

Hidden Lives

by | Sep 7, 2017 | Podcasts | 0 comments

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...

100 Episodes Strong

by | Jun 8, 2017 | Aging Well | 0 comments

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...

Episode 47: Hidden Lives

by | May 12, 2016 | Podcasts | 0 comments

Feylyn Lewis is a millennial from Nashville, Tennessee who’s doing her PhD thesis on identity development in young adult caregivers in the US and UK. She has firsthand knowledge of the challenges faced by this often overlooked group: when she was eleven years old,...