Culture

Caring for Mom & Dad

CARING FOR MOM & DAD explores the emotional, health, and financial challenges that many caregivers face every day.

Caring for Mom & Dad

54m 20s

Examine an unprecedented demographic shift — the 75 million baby boomers now entering their retirement years — and the problems in caring for this aging population when they can no longer care for themselves.

Episodes

  • Caring for Mom & Dad: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Caring for Mom & Dad

    E1 - 54m 20s

    Examine an unprecedented demographic shift — the 75 million baby boomers now entering their retirement years — and the problems in caring for this aging population when they can no longer care for themselves.

Extras + Features

  • Ai-jen Poo & Sarita Gupta: Caring Across Generations: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ai-jen Poo & Sarita Gupta: Caring Across Generations

    5m 43s

    Ai-jen Poo and Sarita Gupta, co-directors of Caring Across Generations, discuss the challenges our nation faces as the population ages. CARING FOR MOM AND DAD premieres May 2015 on PBS (check local listings).

  • Jane: Finding Peace with My Mom: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jane: Finding Peace with My Mom

    1m 44s

    Journalist and author Jane Gross discusses the relationship she and her mother developed during the last few months of her mother's life. CARING FOR MOM AND DAD premieres May 2015 on PBS (check local listings).

  • Technology: A Caregiver's Ally: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Technology: A Caregiver's Ally

    2m 44s

    Explore some of the ways technology-based solutions and resources can help caregivers. CARING FOR MOM AND DAD premieres May 2015 on PBS (check local listings).

  • Nicole: Overnight Solutions: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nicole: Overnight Solutions

    2m 18s

    Overnight care can support working caregivers like Nicole, whose father developed dementia. CARING FOR MOM AND DAD premieres May 2015 on PBS (check local listings).

  • Trailer | Caring for Mom & Dad: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Trailer | Caring for Mom & Dad

    1m 50s

    Americans are living longer than ever before, and soon older adults will outnumber the young. Today, family caregivers are providing 90 percent of parent care, in addition to balancing work and family. CARING FOR MOM & DAD explores the emotional, health and financial challenges that many caregivers face every day. Premieres May 7 on PBS (check local listing).

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