The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox culture contributor Anne Helen Petersen talks with Liz O'Donnell, an advocate for working caregivers and the author of Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living. They talk about the emotional and financial costs of elder care in America, how the burden disproportionately falls on women, and what everyone should know before taking on a caregiving role.
Host: Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen), culture contributor, Vox
Guest: Liz O'Donnell (@LizODTweets), founder, Working Daughter
References: 


"The staggering, invisible, exhausting costs of caring for America's elderly" by Anne Helen Petersen (Vox; Aug. 26)


Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living by Liz O'Donnell (Rowman & Littlefield; 2019)

The Working Daughter Facebook group


National Domestic Workers Alliance


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Producer: Erikk Geannikis


Editor: Amy Drozdowska


Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey


Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall


Vox Audio Fellow: Victoria Dominguez


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