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This Op-Doc video explores the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto.
Females generally have a finer sense of taste than males. In studies conducted by LIFE food sciences, women picked out tastes with a 10 per cent greater accuracy. Men needed approximately 20 per cent more sweetness to recognize the difference and 10 per cent more sourness. And, according to a Yale study, 35 per cent […]
After Stanley’s death in 2006, Linda combed through his collection of home videos trying to make sense of a man whom she deeply loved, but also found difficult because of his emotionally distant, sometimes physically abusive nature.
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart. The moving has a headline a cast of incomparable character actors, starring as an elderly couple who must move in with their grown children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their offspring’s selfish whims.
Ever find there are more things to do than there is time in the day? It’s not uncommon. As a former co-caregiver there was always something that needed my attention. From driving Mom or Dad to appointments, a quick prescription refill from the pharmacy, running a household errand on my lunch break, it was never […]
How to stop your life from grinding to a halt For those of us who have spent our lives working, raising families and being socially active, being pushed to the sidelines by medical issues or isolation can lead to frustration, loneliness and the possibility of extended periods of boredom. According to experts, boredom can be […]
In this emotionally charged account of family caregiving, filmmaker Julie Winokur and her husband, photojournalist Ed Kashi, expose their personal lives with unflinching candor. Winokur and Kashi uprooted their two children and their business in order to move 3,000 miles cross-country to care for Winokur’s father, Herbie. It is a story of love, family dynamics […]
A documentary based on interviews with nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, doctors, firefighters, first responders who rescue, assist, and help to heal the injured and traumatized. The film takes us on a journey into a world the public rarely sees, depicting emotional costs experienced by professionals.
By Mark Wolynn Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. Yes, traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It