Caregiver Burnout
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's topic is caregiving, but more specifically, caregiver burnout, which is really, unfortunately, kind of a hot topic as it relates to caregiving in general. We've got two great guests with us. We'll get to them in a second. I'd like to thank our crew, Clarence and my crew, to help us get these shows out to you, the listening audience, Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, and DeAndre Howard are our researchers that do great background research for all of our shows. Our production managers, Matthew Broderick, Campbell, who gets these shows out to you in beautiful format to you, the listening audience. Our marketing person is Sharon Nygaard, who also helps with our research as well. My co-host for the show is Clarence Jones, who's got much more experience at doing these podcasts than I do. He's been a great, great colleague. And I thank you for all your your great wisdom as it comes to these shows. We also have Dr. Barry Baines with us, who's our medical advisor on the show today.
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But on the other hand, congratulations, and we wish you only the best. She's internationally recognized expert in gerontological nursing practice and education currently. Currently, and I'll put that in quotes. Okay, currently. Currently. is the Associate Director of the Clinical Science and Practice Core for the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, she was the founding director for the Family Caregiving Institute at UC Davis out in California. So thank you for being with us. She's got a great passion for dealing with the frail and older people and family caregivers. And I can just tell this is going to be, we're going to get great words of wisdom from you. So thank you for being with us. Lisa Brown is also with us.
Lisa's got her bachelor's degree in social work and a master's in social work from the University of Minnesota at Duluth. for the past two decades. That's a long time, actually. She has focused her career around older adults and their caregivers, working to keep people engaged in their community and trying to remain as independent as possible. And she has worked at Long Blonstead is in St. Paul, correct? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the second campus up in Lionel Lakes.
Yep. Right, right, right, right. So I remember that. And she works there now. And thank you so much for both of you. I'm really looking forward to the insights that you provide us on caregiving and caregiving burnout. So, all right. This is what's really struck me. And all of us have been in the health care field a long, long time. And are we seeing the need for caregiving increase? And if that's the case, what might it be from? Is it people are living longer? Is it they have more complicated diseases? Am I right in assuming that we're seeing more of that? And if so, why? Go ahead, Terry, take it away.
All right. Well, I think it's a couple of things that are happening. One is we are living longer. Two, we're seeing the aging of the baby boomer generation, which is this huge expansion of the numbers of people, not just in the U.S., but across the globe that were born after World War II. And that baby boomer generation didn't have as many children as they had siblings. And so we're seeing a huge increase in the number of older adults. I mean, for a while, 10,000 people were turning 65 every day. And so in 1950, you had a 30% chance of being a family caregiver. By 2030, you're going to have a 3% chance, just because there's so many more older adults compared to the younger people who are often their family caregivers. So...
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