Licensed Clinical Social Worker Jennifer Schosheim is a millennial on a mission. She's one of America’s low-profile but critical pieces of the healthcare puzzle, delivering person-centered care outside the operating room. Jennifer tells us about her work counseling cancer patients and their caregivers, including parents of children who don’t know how to talk to their children about mom or dad’s cancer.

Director and Creator Nell Bang-Jensen talks about her play “The Caregivers,” created in collaboration with Philadelphia-area home health aides, hospice workers and family caregivers, several who performed in the play. Part fantasy, part reenacted stories based on the caregivers’ experiences, the social practice performance piece recently ran at Philly’s Pig Iron Theater Company where it sold out all shows.

In his new Young Adult (YA) novel, “No Sad Songs,” author Frank Morelli explores youth caregiving through the character Gabe LoScuda, an eighteen-year-old thrust into the role of caregiver for his grandfather when tragedy strikes the family. Frank tells us how watching his parents care for his own grandfather influenced the novel.

Why are conversations about death so hard? And how can we learn to say goodbye in a healthy way? Author Julie Saeger Nierenberg explores these and other tough questions in her book “Daddy, This Is It: Being-With My Dying Dad.” Julie tells us how her father’s terminal cancer forced her to confront a host of end-of-life issues and led her to think differently about hospice care.

Filmmaker and visual journalist Sky Dylan-Robbins talks about her documentary short for NBC Left Field, “Millennials Stepping Up: How Will We Take Care of Our Parents?” At this pivotal moment in society, where in the next thirty years the population of Americans over age 65 will double, the video poses the question: Where do millennials fit in? It’s a topic that feels close to home for 29-year-old Sky.

In 2007, television, film and social media producer Jen Vargas made a short film for Relay for Life, the signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. A year later, the economy tanked and so did Jen’s career. Then her mother was diagnosed with stage one uterine cancer. Jen moved in with her mother and became her full-time caregiver. It's been a huge sacrifice, but Jen calls her mom her hero.

80-year-old Dr. Maxine Borowsky Junge explains why she co-wrote “Dear Myra, Dear Max: A Conversation on Aging” with her friend and colleague Dr. Myra Levick, who at age 93 now lives in an independent living community in South Florida while Max lives alone on Whidbey Island in Washington state.

In today’s show we revisit an interview with Rosalinda Babin, the mother of military veteran Alan “Doc” Babin who sustained a near-fatal gunshot wound serving as a paratrooper medic in the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division. Rosie shares the powerful story of how Doc clawed his way back to life after his catastrophic injury, how her family’s life changed and how advocating for Doc affected her own health.

In an era when women were often defined by the work of their husbands, art psychotherapist Dr. Myra Levick (93) earned three degrees, she helped found the American Art Therapy Association and she developed the widely-used Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (LECATA). Myra recently co-authored the book “Dear Myra, Dear Max: A Conversation About Aging” with her longtime friend and colleague, 80-year-old Dr. Maxine Junge. Tune in and be wowed.

The death of LA writer Lauren DePino's beloved grandmother hit her especially hard, but she didn’t realize how hard until years later when she met 91-year-old Gloria Kessler, the grandmother of her ex-boyfriend’s wife. Lauren tells us about the getaway to San Diego that began her unexpected friendship with Gloria.