BUILDING A SOCIETY THAT VALUES CARE

At the hospice where her aging mother was receiving care, Liz O’Donnell had a revelation. A marketing executive at the time, O’Donnell had an exchange with another woman—a hospice nurse named Peg—that changed the way she thought about care. “Listen, I get it,” Peg said to O’Donnell. “You’re the sole breadwinner. I’m a single mother of two teenage girls. I get it.” That scene appears in Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living, the book O’Donnell wrote to explain the unique challenges of caregiving today, particularly for women. Although Peg disappears