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

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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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 have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was reported and hosted by Lauren Young. Tanya Lewis also contributed reporting for this miniseries. Marielle Issa, Emily Makowski, Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck fact-check our show. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	breaking down barriers to care with people who care.
0:07.0	Embracing technologies that put the clinic wherever the patient is.
0:15.0	Helping health care systems keep pace,
0:21.0	pushing every boundary, till there's room for every patient.
0:28.0	Better health, brighter future.
0:33.0	That's the Decadeaway.
0:40.0	For Scientific American Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feldman.
0:45.0	Last Friday, Senior Health Editor Tanya Lewis joined me to talk about the latest research on
0:49.9	caregiving for older adults. People are living longer, but studies suggest that
0:55.6	family sizes are getting smaller, which means people may have fewer siblings
1:00.5	and cousins to help support their parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents
1:05.1	through that lengthening period of old age. But what does this actually mean for
1:10.2	the family members who do provide that care.
1:13.0	How do they ensure the best quality of life
1:15.0	for an aging loved one while also taking care of themselves?
1:19.4	To find out how folks are managing this balancing act,
1:22.3	Tanya teamed up with Associate Health Editor Lauren Young
1:25.0	to visit Sunnyside Community Services,
1:27.0	a support hub for residents living in the borough of Queens
1:30.0	in New York City.
1:31.0	Here's Lauren to share some of the stories they heard there.
1:35.0	So we have aprons for everyone and you can express yourself however you like.
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