About this episode

The episode explores the challenges of caregiving for aging parents and the difficult decisions families face.

Send us Fan Mail One hospital visit changed the questions I thought I'd be asking twenty years from now. After my dad's major back surgery, I found myself thinking about something I wasn't ready for: what happens when the people who always took care of us suddenly need us? This episode isn't really about politics. It's about aging parents, caregiving, Social Security, Medicare, home health care, technology, independence, and the impossible decisions so many families are quietly making every d...

People in this episode

Host: Christi Chanelle

Topics covered

• aging parents
• caregiving
• health care
• independence
• family decisions

Keywords

• caregiving
• aging
• Social Security
• Medicare
• health care
• family decisions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Social Security, Medicare

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