About this episode

Victoria Moran discusses the complexities of caregiving and love in the context of a broken system with guest Laura Mauldin.

Caregiving is often called a labor of love. But what happens when love collides with a broken system? In this powerful and deeply human conversation, Victoria speaks with Laura Mauldin, PhD, author of In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis. Together, they explore the intimate realities of disability, partnership, policy failure, ableism, and what it truly means to love someone when bodies change. This episode is about story because story is...

People in this episode

Host: Victoria Moran

Guest: Laura Mauldin

Topics covered

• caregiving
• disability
• ableism
• love
• policy failure
• partnership

Keywords

• caregiving
• disability
• ableism
• love stories
• policy failure
• intimate realities

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis

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