How to be a caregiver (w/ Courtney Martin)

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  You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Today's episode is all about how to be a caregiver.

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  What do you do when you're the one making sure that the people you love get what they need?

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  How do you support someone if they're the one that's doing the caretaking?

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  You know,

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  this is a role that almost all of us will have to play at one point or another in our lives,

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  and yet it's one that so few of us have any sort of training to do.

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  Today's guest, Courtney Martin, has been writing and thinking about care for our kids,

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  for our parents, for our partners, for our communities, for the world, for our country.

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  She's been thinking about all those different forms of care for years now.

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  And she's been doing that as a writer and a journalist,

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  but she is currently living through it in an entirely new and much more personal way.

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  Here is a clip where Courtney explains what I'm talking about.

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  I am, from a practical perspective, I'm a,

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  you know, classic sort of sandwich generation caregiver, right?

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  So I have two daughters, nine and 12 years old.

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  And I live with my mom,

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  who's in her late seventies and has some disabilities and some chronic illnesses.

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  And I also am the primary caregiver for my dad, who is in a memory care facility.

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