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Who Cares for You? Juana Libedinsky on the Untold Journey of Caregivers
Nobody asks how the caregiver is doing. It's time to change that.
When journalist Juana Libedinsky's husband suffered a traumatic brain injury during a family ski trip in the Patagonia Andes, she didn't fall apart — she became a machine. In this powerful episode, Juana shares the story behind her book Downhill, what really happens to the person doing the caregiving, and why the caregiver's journey is just as important as the patient's.
This one is for every person carrying something heavy in silence.
In this episode:
What it means to become the family caregiver overnight
The diagnosis that…
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