How caregivers can prevent burnout

Life Kit

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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According to AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving, 1 in 5 Americans are acting as unpaid caregivers. The work can be meaningful but also stressful. Caregivers give advice about how to approach the job, find support and make time for self-care. This episode originally published Feb. 20, 2023.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation, working to create access to opportunity for people and communities by tackling tough social and environmental problems.
0:12.0	More information is at waltonfamilyfoundation.org.
0:17.8	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:24.1	Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
0:27.4	Caregiving is a full-time job, and it's one that more and more Americans are taking on.
0:32.3	In fact, the number of Americans acting as unpaid caregivers rose from 43.5 million in 2015 to about 53 million in
0:40.8	2020. Before she was a reporter, T.K. Dutess was a health care provider for 15 years. She worked
0:47.0	alongside caregivers every day to help them take care of their loved ones who might be children,
0:52.1	older folks, folks with disabilities, folks who are chronically
0:55.4	ill, and she could tell that her presence offered a short and rare break for family members
1:00.5	who were on duty all hours of the day. On this episode of Life Kit, TK. Talks about how
1:05.7	caregivers can take care of themselves. She talks with two caregivers about what's worked for them, what they wish
1:11.7	they'd done differently, how the experience has changed them, and how we can support
1:16.1	the caregivers in our lives.
1:22.4	Support for NPR and the following message come from the Walton Family Foundation, working to create access
1:28.4	to opportunity for people and communities by tackling tough social and environmental problems.
1:34.0	More information is at waltinfamilyfoundation.org.
1:41.6	Imagine this. You're living it up in New York City,
1:44.8	six months into the job of your dreams in late-night TV,
1:47.7	and you get a call that changes everything.
1:51.0	That's what happened to Jacqueline Revere in 2016.
1:54.1	I was on the subway.
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