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Care Work

Keeping young children safe and curious, caring for aging parents or counseling a friend suffering from heartbreak are not easy tasks. Done off-the-clock, we don’t not always think of these things as work. In this episode of 90.5 WESA’s series, Still Working, we follow four people for whom caring is part of the job description.

People at every stage of life depend on care from professionals. Jean Thompson Bird, a teacher at the Carnegie Mellon University Children’s School, introduces children to the wider world. Theresa Brown, a hospice nurse at Allegheny Health Network, works to keep people comfortable at the end of their lives. Rabbi Seth Adelson at Beth Shalom in Squirrel Hill cares for the more than 600 families in his congregation, many of whom are struggling in the wake of the Tree of Life shooting last month. And Kim Hardin, a therapist in McCandless, helps clients process trauma.

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Still Working is our podcast about how work shapes who we are and how we see the world.