The Challenge of Caring for Our Elders
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Reed Abelson, New York Times reporter, talks about the financial challenges of caring for our elders, since the United States does not have a comprehensive system to help pay for long-term care as the population ages.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYc, |
| 0:02.0 | welcome |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Bridgete Bergen. |
| 0:09.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYc |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome back everybody. I'm Bridget Bergen. It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian Laird today. |
| 0:17.8 | How much have you thought about how you will afford to grow old? |
| 0:22.3 | We spend a lot of time thinking about how to care for our health in the present, |
| 0:25.7 | but as we age, more and more of us are often faced with daunting decisions |
| 0:31.2 | about how to care for ourselves and our loved ones with no real support |
| 0:36.0 | system in place. Sure, there's Medicare and Medicaid to federal programs that provide |
| 0:42.0 | some support. |
| 0:43.0 | But with the rising price of health care, nursing homes, |
| 0:46.0 | and assisted living facilities, |
| 0:48.0 | there are still huge gaps that can lead to truly startling outcomes. In fact, a new report finds that Americans |
| 0:56.4 | who needed to live in long-term care facilities were more likely to die broke. |
| 1:01.6 | That's just one of the findings in a series from the New York Times and |
| 1:05.6 | KFF Health News, formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation. It's called |
| 1:10.7 | Dying Broke and it examines the patchwork of solutions Americans are forced to rely on as they age or while caring for aging loved ones. |
| 1:21.0 | Joining me now to unpack some of the findings in this report is Reed |
| 1:25.2 | Abelson, the New York Times health care reporter, along with her reporting |
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