Is Caregiving a Life Sentence? w/ Kate Washington

Is Caregiving a Life Sentence? w/ Kate Washington

In this episode of The Caregivers Podcast, author Kate Washington joins us to discuss her powerful memoir, Already Toast, and the invisible crisis of caregiver burnout. We explore the raw emotional realities of spousal caregiving, the "slow slide" into medical responsibility, and how systemic failures in the healthcare system leave families feeling abandoned.

Kate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America, a powerful blend of memoir and reporting that exposes how quickly love and responsibility can become total, invisible labor when a partner becomes seriously ill. Her story traces the psychological narrowing caregivers live through: identity erosion, relentless coordination, and the quiet reality of doing high-stakes care with little training, pay, or recognition, all inside a system that often treats caregiving as private “family stuff,” not real work. Washington is also a longtime journalist and food writer based in Northern California, and a frequent speaker on the systemic challenges facing family caregivers.

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