by Jana Panarites | Sep 5, 2019 | Podcasts |
Pioneering educator and researcher Dr. John Eric Baugher was just eighteen years old when his mother was murdered. Filled with rage, John felt he was fated to join his mother’s killer in life imprisonment. Not behind bars, but behind psychological walls of...
by Jana Panarites | Sep 20, 2018 | Podcasts |
For the past six years cartoonist Sharon Rosenzweig has been making comics about her mother and what Sharon refers to as their “adventures with Alzheimer’s Disease.” When her mother entered hospice, Sharon’s daily practice of drawing her and her caregivers became a...
by Jana Panarites | Jun 14, 2018 | Podcasts |
Director and Creator Nell Bang-Jensen talks about her play “The Caregivers,” created in collaboration with Philadelphia-area home health aides, hospice workers and family caregivers, several who performed in the play. Part fantasy, part reenacted stories based on the...
by Jana Panarites | May 24, 2018 | Podcasts |
Why are conversations about death so hard? And how can we learn to say goodbye in a healthy way? Author Julie Saeger Nierenberg explores these and other tough questions in her book “Daddy, This Is It: Being-With My Dying Dad.” On today’s show, Julie tells us how...
by Jana Panarites | Feb 1, 2018 | Podcasts |
Dr. Samuel Harrington’s father had a vision of how he wanted to experience the last days of his life. That vision led Dr. Harrington and his sisters to help their father make end-of-life decisions based on the exit strategy he wanted. It also inspired...