Vox culture contributor Anne Helen Petersen talks with Liz O’Donnell, an advocate for working caregivers and the author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living. They talk about the emotional and financial costs of elder care in America, how the burden disproportionately falls on women, and what everyone should know before taking on a caregiving role.
Host: Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen), culture contributor, Vox
Guest: Liz O’Donnell (@LizODTweets), founder, Working Daughter
References:
- “The staggering, invisible, exhausting costs of caring for America’s elderly” by Anne Helen Petersen (Vox; Aug. 26)
- Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living by Liz O’Donnell (Rowman & Littlefield; 2019)
- The Working Daughter Facebook group
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
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This episode was made by:
- Producer: Erikk Geannikis
- Editor: Amy Drozdowska
- Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey
- Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall
- Vox Audio Fellow: Victoria Dominguez
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