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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Mary Jo Batters, caring for an elderly parent and people in need
Description: Mary Jo Batters was, as she puts it, “cloistered” for six years, caring for her mother who had dementia. She learned some important life lessons in those years, such as the way the core of a person remains. Her mother, who was a nurse, cared about people up until the very end. Batters also learned how to reassess her mother’s needs and her own challenges every day so that she could get through each day, one at a time. She learned to think, “Thank you for this day and anything in it.” When she emerged from “the missing years,” Batters says...