Love and Old Age, How To Be Caring

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Replay of Episode 73 from February 2022. With tenderness and optimism, Atul Gawande (author of Being Mortal, a must read) and Ai-jen Poo (who supports caregivers across the country) give us all a way to think about love, caregiving and facing mortality. To watch Kelly’s conversations with Atul and Ai-jen, go to www.pbs.org/kelly. If you love our pod, please give us a nice juicy 5 star rating. It takes about 2 seconds and helps lots of other people find us. Thanks. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and this is Kelly Corrigan wonders.
0:14.1	Today, I'm wondering how to love people well into their old age.
0:18.8	I mean, since 1900, we've practically doubled life expectancy, which is a
0:23.0	great thing. More time to learn. More time to love. More time to teach. Today's episode asks,
0:28.4	what does and can living a long life mean? And what conversations must we figure out how to have
0:35.2	to make the most of those extra years.
0:38.4	A Toole Gawande, a surgeon who wrote the very important book, Being Mortal,
0:42.5	and I Jen Poo, who supports the caregivers who support us all,
0:46.3	are as informed and thoughtful on growing old as anyone in America,
0:51.4	and they are my guest today on Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:54.7	We'll be right back.
1:04.0	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:06.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:07.0	And this month, we began a five-part series called Take Two, two iconic thinkers, creators or doers, who can help us know more, feel more, do more, and be better.
1:18.9	As you might know, in the fall of 2020, PBS gave me the opportunity of a lifetime, a one-on-one long-form, on-location interview show to be
1:29.3	broadcast nationally called Tell Me More. Because PBS is really America's network, and because this
1:36.3	moment in our American history lacks for good news, my preference for guests were people I found
1:42.7	heroic in one way or another.
1:45.3	Like our premiere episode was a sprawling conversation with the great civil rights attorney Brian Stevenson,
1:50.9	who we all came to know through his book and later the film Just Mercy.
1:54.5	We consider Brian the gold standard for the types of people we profile on Tell Me More.
1:59.9	Since then, I've talked to civil rights icon Dolores Suerta, philanthropist Melinda French Gates,
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