Anat Baron is a Los Angeles based tech founder and professional speaker.  In this episode, Anat shares her story of supporting her mother through a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer while living on the other side of the continent in the midst of a global pandemic.  Anat reflects on the advantages and drawbacks of virtual care when trying to establish a relationship with the health care team and advocating for person-centered care.

In this episode, Mitchell Consky, a Toronto- based journalist and writer, shares the ups and downs, the joys and the struggles, of providing palliative care for his father, Harvey Consky, at home during the pandemic. These experiences inspired his book Home Safe: A Memoir Of End-of-life Care During Covid-19.