When You’re Responsible for Eldercare

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

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🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Women are responsible for most eldercare, and it’s often an exhausting, isolating job that has to be done on top of your paid work. We talk with a researcher who’s gone through it herself; she shares coping strategies and advice on how to support the caregivers on your team. Guest: Anne Bardoel. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:23.0	You're listening to women at work from Harvard Business Review.
0:29.0	I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:33.3	I'm Nicole Torres.
0:34.4	And I'm Amy Gallo.
0:36.1	At some point in our careers, most of us
0:37.9	will be taking care of another adult.
0:40.3	A parent with Parkinson's, a spouse going through chemotherapy, a friend who's had a stroke.
0:46.0	Sometimes we see the need for elder care coming and can plan for it.
0:50.0	Sometimes people need us suddenly and we can't.
0:53.0	There are often a lot of difficult conversations and decisions
0:56.2	and responsibilities involved.
0:58.0	It's like having another job.
1:00.1	The extra work takes a heavy toll,
1:01.9	including at the job we get paid to do.
1:04.8	Which is why we're talking about how to cope with elder care, both when you're the caregiver
1:09.3	or when someone on your team is.
1:11.3	Our guest expert is Anne Bardahl. She is a professor at
1:14.1	Swinburn Business School in Melbourne. I wasn't able to join the interview so
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