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>> shots fired! by the way, bigger latte. >> i just want to add to the changes necessary, there is a growing momentum. grassroots moment it up i'm of the sandwich generation. i have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter and aging parents. there are so many of us in the sandwich generation. >> explain that term. >> well, it means you're literally thinking about the care for your kids and the care for your aging relatives. for me, it's a real issue. it's not just for me. it's for million of us of us out there. i think if we can tap into that to really create the demand that we need to address child care and...

In the care workforce today. i mean, let's be honest, care workers have been largely invisible in our economy. we don't talk about it. but this is the work that makes all other work possible. all other work possible. these are the brokworkers who a taking care of our children. our aging relatives, our disabled members of our population here. yet it is disgraceful that they provide care, right? they provide care to our loved ones that they don't make enough money to care for themselves or their own families. you know what president obama said in that clip is right on. it's up acceptable. >> on ...

Suicide, you're simply pointing out you're hearing this from your middle-aged patients? >> absolutely. when you listen deeply to people, and get past whatever they're saying and saying, what's really going on, it's amazing after three questions people will start to talk to you about what they're afraid of and what they're ashamed of. what i'm hearing from mainly white middle-class baby boomers is that, who feel burdened by their parents and taking care of them when they're elderly and taking care of them when they were dying, what i hear from many of them is i'm going to take a bottle of pills...

You're hearing this from your middle-aged patients. >> absolute. when you listen deeply to people and get past what they're saying, what's really going on, it's amazing after three questions people will start to talk to you about what they're afraid of and what they're ashamed of, and what i'm hearing from white middle-class baby boomer whose feel burdened by their parents and taking care of them when they're elderly and taking care of them when they're dying, what i'm hearing from many of them i ee e going to take a bot of pills. in fact, five minutes before i appeared here, i got an e-mail f...

Of what they do and they're more patient with their aging relatives. >> doctor, you talked about it on your blog. i'll read the comment, i have it here, it says, i'm not sure who it's from. "if i become old and feeble i will kill myself. i will not be a burden on someone else." this comes down to, medical science, keeping people alive longer than ever before, comes down to finances, not wanting to be a drain on finances and emotional as well and being a burden to the family in general. >> absolutely. usually what's happening is if you're an impatient person as many people are and if your aging...