The Challenges of Caring for Aging Parents: An Interview with Dave Iverson

Presented by Seniors at Home

A loving son's story of his ten-year caregiver journey.

About this event

Dave Iverson had just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease when he became the caretaker for his 93-year-old mother, who suffered from dementia. In this special event, Gwen Harris, Geriatric Care Manager for Seniors At Home’s Palliative Care Program, will interview Iverson about his ten-year caregiver journey and his new book, Winter Stars.

Iverson will discuss the universal challenges adult children face while caring for their aging parents. His insight into the financial, physical, and emotional struggles of caring for his mother until her death will resonate with family caregivers everywhere.

Dave Iverson is a writer, documentary film producer/director, and retired KQED broadcast journalist. In addition to hosting the Friday Forum program on KQED for ten years, Dave produced and reported more than 20 documentary specials for PBS, including the Frontline film, My Father, My Brother and Me. His awards include a national Emmy, four regional Emmys and numerous film festival citations.

Gwen Harris is the Geriatric Care Manager for the Palliative Care Program at Seniors At Home. She has an MA in gerontology and a FT in thanatology—the study of death and dying—and interned with the “Living After Loss” and the Zen Hospice Project. Gwen co-authored a chapter on death and dying in Care Managers: Working with the Aging Family; served as a guest editor for the Journal of Geriatric Care Management: End of Life Care and wrote an article entitled "Palliative Care and Geriatric Care Managing". Gwen trains volunteers for Seniors At Home's Palliative and End of Life care program and teaches Death and Dying and Gerontology at San Francisco State University.