avatar

Bryan Hughes on Right Wing Extremists & Kerri Thompson on Caregiving During Covid

Zoomer Week in Review
Zoomer Week in Review
Episode • Jan 24, 2021 • 19m
This week, the Biden administration took power in the U.S. with 25,000 national guard troops standing by. Since the storming of the capitol two weeks earlier, security experts agree that right wing extremists pose the biggest domestic threat to America. Libby Znaimer talked with Bryan Hughes, associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University.

AND

As if caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s wasn’t hard enough, the pandemic has magnified the challenges for both caregivers and patients and for many, it has hastened the course of the disease.  Kerri Thompson is the essential caregiver for her mom Joyce, who lives at a retirement residence in Aurora.

Switch to the Fountain App