The Hidden Disease 40% Of Americans Are Living - Alexandra Drane

About this episode

Laurie McGraw interviews Alexandra Drane about the hidden health crisis of unpaid caregiving in America.

What if the biggest health crisis in America is one almost no one is being treated for? In this episode of Inspiring Women, host Laurie McGraw sits down with Alexandra Drane, co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS, recorded at the WBL conference. Alexandra has spent her career proving a simple, radical idea: when life goes wrong, health goes wrong. After gathering more than one billion data points at her former company, Eliza Corporation, she identified what she calls the unmentionables: caregiver stress, financial stress, relationship stress, and workplace stress. Her conclusion was that these are among the biggest diseases in the United States, and that at the center of all of them sits the unpaid caregiver. Today, more than 40 percent of adults are unpaid caregivers, and between 40 and 50 percent of them are men. Drawing on both the data and her own experience caring for her sister-in-law, who died of glioblastoma at 32, Alexandra makes the case for why caregiving must be recognized, measured, and celebrated. IN THIS EPISODE: - How unpaid caregiving is really defined, and the many roles people never recognize as caregiving, from installing grab bars to handling finances and…

People in this episode

Host: Laurie McGraw

Guest: Alexandra Drane

Topics covered

• caregiving
• health crisis
• unpaid caregivers
• stress
• data analysis
• men in caregiving

Keywords

• caregiver stress
• financial stress
• relationship stress
• workplace stress
• health definition
• unmentionables
• glioblastoma
• data points
• caregiving roles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ARCHANGELS, Eliza Corporation

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