Hartford Scholar Dr. Epstein-Lubow on PBS NewsHour, Discusses Family Caregiving and Dementia
Hartford Scholar Dr. Gary Epstein-Lubow, a geriatric psychiatrist at Butler Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health, recently sat down with PBS NewsHour to discuss his own family's struggles as caregivers. He also discusses initiatives that are working to improve the resources and access to help for all family caregivers. Dr. Epstein-Lubow’s interview is based on his recent piece featured in the Health Affairs special issue on Alzheimer's disease. The essay, “A Family Disease,” follows the difficulty that Epstein-Lubow and his family had in finding the treatment that his mother-in-law required for dementia and the support that they — her primary caregivers — so badly needed. He also describes his own grandparents’ struggles with the same disease 25 years prior, and notes that as access to family-based solutions remains limited, “the situation today is not much different.”
Hartford Scholar Dr. Gary Epstein-Lubow, a geriatric psychiatrist at Butler Hospital and an assistant professor at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School and School of Public Health, recently sat down with PBS NewsHour to discuss his own family's struggles as caregivers. He also discusses initiatives that are working to improve the resources and access to help for all family caregivers.
Dr. Epstein-Lubow’s interview is based on his recent piece featured in the Health Affairs special issue on Alzheimer's disease. The essay, “A Family Disease,” follows the difficulty that Epstein-Lubow and his family had in finding the treatment that his mother-in-law required for dementia and the support that they — her primary caregivers — so badly needed. He also describes his own grandparents’ struggles with the same disease 25 years prior, and notes that as access to family-based solutions remains limited, “the situation today is not much different.”
View the full interview here.