A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents–and Ourselves

On this episode of One to One, Sheryl McCarthy talks with longtime New York Times reporter Jane Gross about her blog and her book, A Bittersweet Season: Caring for our Aging Parents...And Ourselves. Her book details the years that Jane Gross took to properly get her mother the care she needed, from an assisted living home to a nursing home, where she died. Jane Gross, through her book, discusses the difficulties of caring for her mother, from the emotional and physical stress to the financial burden. Journalist Sheryl McCarthy talks with newsmakers about their sources of inspiration. She has private conversations about public affairs issues with the people who report on them and those who ARE the story. The subjects range from global warming issues to domestic ones.