Heart and Hustle: The Caregiver’s Journey
Providing longterm care can be draining physically, emotionally, and financially. But when the caregiver is supported, it can be fulfilling and engender resilience. In this podcast, Dr. Allison Applebaum, director of the Steven S. Elbaum Family Center for Caregiving, tells us why and how supporting caregivers is so critical.
Stephen Calabria: [00:00:00] From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host, Stephen Calabria's, director of podcasting.
On this episode, we welcome Allison Applebaum, PhD. Dr. Applebaum is the director of the Stephen S. Elbaum Family Center for Caregiving and a professor of Geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Applebaum discusses the challenges and potential benefits of caregiving, the social and structural inequities that shape the experiences of caregivers, and how challenging times provide opportunities to find meaning, purpose, and resilience. We're honored to welcome Dr. Allison Applebaum on the program.
Alison Applebaum, welcome to Road to Resilience.
Allison Applebaum: Thank you so much for having me.
Stephen Calabria: Let's start with a broad question. Could you tell us what it is that you do here at Mount Sinai?
Allison Applebaum: Sure. So I lead our new Stephen s Alba Family Center for Caregiving in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine.[00:01:00]
And this is a comprehensive program that really seeks to improve the quality of life and experience and care of family caregivers of patients, both within the Mount Sinai health system and caregivers.