“Caregiving“ a documentary premiering on PBS June 24th , 9 pm.

No thanks, I wallow in it enough.

Way, thank you for bringing this to our attention. I watched a good deal of this documentary on the PBS website this morning. It shows the larger picture of caregiving, not excluded to the elderly but all ages and family situations. I liked the quote from Roslyn Carter in the beginning.

“There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers." 

I hope others will watch and comment.

FYI. You can now stream this on the PBS app of you don’t want to wait. Just started it.

Can’t wait! I wish they’d interviewed me. I expect such a program to propagate the unholy idea of multigenerational living, how the wife never loved her husband as much as she did when he deliberately peed on the baseboards, in the heating vent, on the refrigerator and in the dishwasher, and the happiness that comes with signing mom into hospice care. Then the warm fuzzy wrap-up where the whole family gathers to celebrate Father’s Day dinner with dad, who can’t talk and keeps folding his napkin as he ignores the others desperately struggling to make small talk with each other in the face of this family tragedy.

I am a wee bit jaded. And am beyond wanting to be shown the basics of caregiving as alleged entertainment.

Thanks for the heads up! 😊