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Saturday morning, twenty past nine. Izabela’s mother-in-law, Joanna, seventy-three, is on the phone: “that pink tablet, the one for my blood pressure — I think I’ve taken it, but I took it yesterday as well, and now I can’t tell if it was twice.” Eight medicines a day, three different consultants, none of them aware of the others. And Iza — two kids, still in her pyjamas, coffee in one hand — is meant to work out whether to say “take the pink one” or “don’t, you might already have”.
This episode is about the sandwich generation and a parent on too many medicines. Tomasz explains why nearly one in two people aged sixty-five and over in England are on five or more medicines a day — a figure that has roughly quadrupled in a generation (Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, England) — and shows a concrete answer: a tablet on the kitchen wall with the moya pteczka app open all day, so an older person no longer has to keep count of their doses. She isn’t ASKING herself whether she took it. She SEES that she has.
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About AI in this episode. The dialogue was written by Tomasz Szuster. The voices you hear are AI-generated synthetic voices — not recordings of the hosts. We say this straight out, because we think it should be the standard for any podcast made this way. Full details in the episode outro.
