How To Care for an Aging Parent

How To!

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The How To! hosts love helping listeners find the answers they need. But sometimes a host needs help, too. On this episode, Courtney Martin and her brother, Chris, open up about how their father’s dementia has led them to upend their own lives in order to become his caregivers. To help Courtney and Chris talk through what comes next, Carvell Wallace welcomes Dr. Allison Applebaum, whose book Stand by Me chronicles her own caregiving journey and her work at Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Caregivers Clinic. If you liked this episode check out: How To Help a Loved One With Dementia and How To Make Aging Easier for Everyone Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis and Sara McCrae. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's another day, another debate.
0:02.0	I'm in a much better mood than I was after the debate in June.
0:04.0	Let me tell you that much.
0:05.0	But this time, the VPs are taking center stage.
0:08.0	You know, it's very much happy warrior against grumpy young guy.
0:12.0	I'm Mary Harris, host of
0:13.4	Slates Daily News Podcast, What Next? All this year we have been there for you
0:17.3	with the latest on the 2024 presidential race. We're going to be there
0:20.9	this week too, as Tim Walz and J.D. Vance go head to head,
0:24.7	just a couple of Midwestern guys fighting things out. Maybe the winner will celebrate with some hot dish.
0:30.5	Tim Walls is a good contrast.
0:34.4	He seems happier than J. Vans to me.
0:36.5	Well, that's a low bar.
0:38.0	So for the latest on the big debate
0:39.6	and all the biggest political news,
0:41.4	just head on over to what next. Follow along wherever you get
0:44.8	your podcasts. Welcome to How To. I'm Carvel Wallace. This week our question comes from a familiar voice, someone you and I know pretty well.
0:56.4	It's my co-host, Courtney Martin.
0:59.1	Dear How-To, me and my big brother Chris have started taking care of our dad who has pretty advanced dementia.
1:05.0	Alongside our mom, we've been close our whole lives, which is really helping in this moment of such heightened emotions and logistical challenges.
1:11.0	We also have super supportive partners, which we know is rare and lucky, and the financial
1:16.0	resources not to be freaked out about the future.
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