Episode 91: A New Normal

by | Apr 6, 2017 | Podcasts | 0 comments

A year ago on the podcast Lisa Howland told of quitting her job to be a full-time caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson’s disease, and of hiding the knives in her house because of his increasingly aggressive behavior — associated with his later diagnosis...

Episode 71: Gold Star

by | Nov 3, 2016 | Podcasts | 0 comments

Victoria Negri is a member of the millennial generation, but her father was a veteran of World War II and he developed Parkinson’s disease before Vicki turned 20.  In today’s episode, Vicki talks about her new film “Gold Star,” which was inspired by the last years of...

Episode 51: Then and Now

by | Jun 9, 2016 | Podcasts | 0 comments

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

by | Jun 2, 2016 | Podcasts | 0 comments

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 43: The Cuban Caregiver

by | May 1, 2016 | Podcasts | 0 comments

Mary Aguiar slept about twenty hours in the first three months after her mother moved in with her. Mary’s mother has Parkinson’s disease, and the medication she was on helped with her motor skills, but it also produced hallucinations and made her mother angry. In...