Caregivers: Podcast with Jessica Zitter

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Jan 7, 2021 · 35m

Many of us in geriatrics and palliative care assume that we are the experts in health care when it comes to understanding the caregiver experience. Every once in a while, we are humbled and reminded of what we don't know.

Jessica Zitter had such an experience. Jessica, as many of you know, is an award winning author (link to our podcast about her book Extreme Measures) and was featured in an Academy Award winning film titled Extremis. She sought out to make another movie about the story of one of her patients who enrolled in hospice. The idea was it would be a film about all of the support…