In Episode 28 of Transitions of Hope, Maryann Roefaro welcomes her dear friend Kate Flannery for a deeply personal and wide-ranging conversation about resilience, caregiving, forgiveness, human connection, and the lessons hidden inside life’s most difficult experiences.

Drawing from Kate’s extensive career in social work, nonprofit leadership, private practice, end-of-life care, and her current work with the Alzheimer’s Association, Maryann and Kate explore what happens when familiar roles begin to change. They discuss anticipatory grief, caring for aging loved ones, navigating dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, and the importance of allowing ourselves to acknowledge the complicated emotions that arise when someone we love begins to change.

Together, they reflect on the idea that suffering does not need to be experienced in is ...