Sense of Community
Holding On and Letting Go
Clip | 1m 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Caregivers share emotional struggles while experts suggest therapy, and peer support for stress.
Hannah Wingo shares how caregiving for her son Gage, who was born with congenital CMV, brought emotional challenges, isolation, and the need to relinquish control, while Maureen Templeman explains that emotional strain is the most common burden caregivers face, and that support systems like therapy and peer connection can ease stress and long-term grief.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Sense of Community is a local public television program presented by OPT
Sense of Community
Holding On and Letting Go
Clip | 1m 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Hannah Wingo shares how caregiving for her son Gage, who was born with congenital CMV, brought emotional challenges, isolation, and the need to relinquish control, while Maureen Templeman explains that emotional strain is the most common burden caregivers face, and that support systems like therapy and peer connection can ease stress and long-term grief.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Sense of Community
Sense of Community is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
[music playing] NARRATOR: For the approximately 48 million caregivers in the United States, caring for another person brings joys and rewards.
There are also challenges.
Hannah Wingo's oldest child, Gage, who's 10, had congenital CMV at birth.
Oh, man.
We were young parents at the same time as our entire group of friends were.
And we had this different situation that was feeling isolating, and so it was easy to slip into a dark place.
Because you're not, I don't think, naturally equipped to-- to handle that.
Emotional strain tends to be the type of strain that family caregivers report the most.
A lot of times that will manifest in things like feelings of isolation, feelings of loneliness, overwhelm.
NARRATOR: Hannah Wingo leans in on friends who also have children with disabilities, and attends regular therapy sessions.
She focuses on the positives of caring for Gage, and what it's taught her.
It's not up to me if he walks, or talks, or eats the way every other kid eats.
It's not up to me, ultimately, whatever outcome may come for him.
So I have learned about myself that I cling to any amount of control, by nature.
Like, I want to be in charge.
I want to decide how things work out.
And caring for Gage and being Gage's mom has taught me that that is an illusion.
[laughs] And that even if we think that we're making things better, you know, or getting to decide, it's not up to us.
[music playing]
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 20s | Climate Change in the Ozarks - Broadcast Premiere Sept, 22 at 9pm (20s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 5m 30s | Experts weigh in on the impacts of climate change on the Ozarks and suggest possible solutions. (5m 30s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 5m 45s | Climate change creates greater rainfall in the Ozarks, negatively impacting our rivers. (5m 45s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 3m 10s | Ozarks researchers work diligently to provide solutions to agricultural challenges created by climat (3m 10s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 3m 48s | A local farmer describes the challenges of growing crops in a changing Ozarks climate. (3m 48s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 3m 50s | As a growing population in the Ozarks consumes more water, the need for new sources arises. (3m 50s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 3m 2s | Native plants serve as a unique solution to the obstacles faced by Ozarks wildlife and habitat. (3m 2s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 3m 51s | Floating wetlands present a unique solution to the problem of algal blooms in the Ozarks. (3m 51s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 45s | Young caregivers, often driven by gender norms, face challenges but grow personally (1m 45s)
Awareness Rising: The Future of Caregiving
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 58s | Experts stress caregiving awareness; hospice care users share how it deepened their bond (1m 58s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 2m | Caregivers reflect on emotional toll, stress rest, reflection, and daily joy to reframe caregiving (2m)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 58s | COVID isolation impacted personal connection's role in health and happiness (1m 58s)
Tackling Missouri’s Dementia Crisis
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 50s | 130,000 Missourians have dementia; 250,000 unpaid caregivers face isolation, service gaps. (1m 50s)
Redefining Care: Finding Support and Recognition
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 50s | Caring for a disabled child brings emotional, financial hurdles; need for better access to support (1m 50s)
Now PlayingVideo has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 58s | Caregivers share emotional struggles while experts suggest therapy, and peer support for stress. (1m 58s)
Video has Closed Captions
Clip | 1m 50s | Caregivers often experience depression, fatigue, and medical crises, and emotional strain (1m 50s)
Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship
- News and Public Affairs
Top journalists deliver compelling original analysis of the hour's headlines.
- News and Public Affairs
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world.
Support for PBS provided by:
Sense of Community is a local public television program presented by OPT