Paid to Care: The Magic, and Mess, of Care Work

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'Humane Eldercare Has Become a Luxury Item’

Nursing home care in the U.S. can run families $10,000 a month, a cost Medicare won’t pay for. When Anna de la Cruz's parents both developed dementia around the same time, her family split into two paths: a Medicaid ‘spend down’ in the U.S. for her mom, and a move to a memory car ...  Show more

Passive Aggressive vs. ‘Massive Aggressive’ With Novelist Elizabeth Strout

The bestselling novelist behind works like Amy and Isabelle and Olive Kitteridge discusses her excitement about turning 70, her reserved New England upbringing, and how death figures into her latest novel, The Things We Never Say. She also talks about her later start in publishin ...  Show more

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