Love and Old Age, How To Be Caring
Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Kelly Corrigan Show
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 51 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, I'm wondering how to love people well into their old age. |
| 0:18.4 | I mean, since 1900, we've practically doubled life expectancy, which is a great thing. |
| 0:23.8 | More time to learn. |
| 0:24.8 | More time to love. |
| 0:25.8 | More time to teach. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's episode asks what does and can living a long life mean, and what conversations |
| 0:33.3 | must we figure out how to have to make the most of those extra years. |
| 0:38.3 | A tool Gawande, a surgeon who wrote the very important book, Being Mortal, and I, Gen Poo, |
| 0:43.8 | who supports the caregivers who support us all, are as informed and thoughtful, ungrowing |
| 0:49.6 | old as anyone in America. |
| 0:51.7 | And they are my guests today on Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 0:54.4 | We'll be right back. |
| 0:56.8 | Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. |
| 1:05.8 | I'm Kelly Corrigan, and this month we began a five-part series called Take Two, two iconic |
| 1:11.9 | thinkers, creators or doers who can help us know more, feel more, do more, and be better. |
| 1:19.2 | As you might know, in the fall of 2020, PBS gave me the opportunity of a lifetime, a one-on-one |
| 1:26.2 | long form on-location interview show to be broadcast nationally, called Tell Me More. |
| 1:33.2 | Because PBS is really America's network, and because this moment in our American history |
| 1:38.5 | lacks for good news, my preference for guests were people I found heroic in one way or another. |
| 1:45.4 | Like our premiere episode was a sprawling conversation with the great civil rights attorney |
| 1:49.6 | Brian Stevenson, who we all came to know through his book and later the film Just Mercy. |
| 1:54.9 | We consider Brian the gold standard for the types of people we profile on Tell Me More. |
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