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Take Control of Your Health a series of short radio segments aimed at helping people make changes to improve their own health

Heart Health | People sharing stories about recognizing, treating and managing heart valve disease. Find out more about Taking Control of your heart health here.

Diabetes | People sharing strategies and insights about preventing and managing diabetes. Find out more about Taking Control of Diabetes here.

Caregiving Conversations | Caregivers discuss the challenges of caring for a loved one with a serious diagnosis or in the last stages of life

What Matters Most | Family members discuss facing a loved one’s serious illness with an open heart and loving support

“I now know the challenges of diabetes”

Kalli talks about how she is taking responsibility for keeping track of her blood-sugar and managing her diabetes, now that she is a teenager.

What Matters Most: Live with Your Decisions

Janice reflects on how she had struggled to choose between completing school and caregiving, when her father faced his final days.


What Matters Most: Learning to Honor Wishes

Janice shares how she learned a lot about honoring wishes, while supporting a co-worker who was facing terminal illness.


What Matters Most: Respecting Parents’ Wishes

Susana stresses the importance of having the hard conversations with parents and their wishes about care, when facing serious illness.

What Matters Most: Facing Change is Hard

Susana shares how separating from families is hard for everyone, when elders need more intensive care.


What Matters Most: Listening Guides Plan

Sandra speaks on the importance of listening to family member facing illness, to learn what matters most when making plans for treatment.


What Matters Most: Everyone Pitches In

Souvanh shares how in Laotian culture, everyone pitches in with help and support, when a loved one dies.


What Matters Most: Explanations Dispel Worries

Souvanh talks about how a language barrier increased his mother’s worries and concerns, and explanations offered important relief.


What Matters Most: Talking about Death

Timothy reflects on how some people prefer not to speak about death, even as they face the end of their life.


What Matters Most: The Connection of Caring

Timothy speaks about how caring for someone in their final days, can create a lasting connection.

What Matters Most: Taking Turns Being Present

Richard speaks about the bonding and deep value of spending time with a terminally-ill loved one.


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McKnight FoundationMN Legacy