Helping Grandma and Grandpa Get Back in the Groove

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For the past year and a half, the pandemic has kept many older adults apart from their loved ones. But now that people are getting vaccinated, many older Americans are finally reuniting with their friends and family. On today’s episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta gives CNN's Don Lemon advice about reuniting with his risk-averse mother now that they’re both vaccinated, Dr. Preeti Malani explains how to best support the older adults in our lives through the pandemic and beyond, and gerontologist Karl Pillemer talks about the ways older adults can teach the rest of us about living through difficult times. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My mom is the most outgoing person I have met.
0:09.2	Everyone loves her.
0:10.4	She is such a big personality.
0:12.7	The one thing though that I've been concerned about over the last couple of months is that
0:17.9	she's having trouble re-entering society.
0:21.3	CNN anchor and my friend, Don Lemon, says his mom has barely left her home since the
0:27.8	pandemic began.
0:29.5	She's really having issues with it and I had never seen that part of her personality.
0:33.4	There was a fear in my mother that I sensed and that I heard from her that I had never
0:38.5	heard from her before and I noticed that she didn't seem young and sharp anymore.
0:43.0	She seemed like an old lady.
0:44.8	That was concerning to me.
0:47.0	Don wanted to help his mom get out of her house and back into her old lively routines, but
0:52.6	he also knew it was going to be hard to get her on board.
0:55.8	She's been double vaccinated since January and I've been trying to get her to come here.
1:00.6	I'd say mom, when are you coming to visit?
1:02.6	I'm going to come visit when doctor Fauci tells me I can visit.
1:05.6	I'm going to come visit when doctor Gupta tells me I can come visit.
1:09.1	So I reached out to doctor Gupta and I said, Sanjay, I need some help with my mom.
1:16.0	And that is the inspiration and part for today's show.
1:20.0	On this episode, I'm going to try and help Don and in the process explore how we can all
1:25.2	support the older adults in our lives right now.
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