In Sickness and Age: Finding Balance between Caregiving and Self-Care (Part 2)

As people live longer and family sizes shrink, fewer relatives are
available to share the burden of caregiving for aging loved ones.
The second episode of our two-part miniseries on caregiving
explores what this means for the family members who take on this
critical role. How do they provide the best care while also
maintaining their own well-being? To hear firsthand how caregivers
are navigating this challenge, Lauren Young and Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American’s respective associate and senior editors of
health and medicine, visited a support center in Queens, N.Y. Young
shares some of the stories they gathered from the community there.
Listen to part one of this series. This episode is part of “Health
Equity Heroes,” an editorially independent special project that was
produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Recommended reading: Shrinking Family Sizes May Change Our
Experience with Aging E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you
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