If your care giving duties allow you time to read.....................I'm interested in what book you are in the middle of or just finished or have waiting on your bedside table.
I'm reading "Total Control" by David Baldacci
It's a crime/thriller drama. Quite compelling.
If you can't find the time to read, you should try. It helps to escape from it all in a good book.
"After years of working as a data scientist, Stephen J. Shaw uncovered a striking global pattern: in country after country, birthrate decline was following nearly identical paths, yet no one had connected them to a common underlying factor. What began as a personal quest — to better prepare his own teenage children for the new era ahead — grew into a nine-year investigation across 24 nations, combining hard data with human stories. His motivation has been simple: to bring awareness to this silent crisis of falling birthrates before it reshapes our societies beyond repair."
These reason people need to pay attention to this issue is that it is not going to be easily solved and it involves (currently) all countries except sub-Saharan Africa, which is slightly behind the rest of the world, but is on the same trajectory nonetheless.
Knowing the impact of this issue may help young people to better plan their careers (teaching? forget it: in Japan schools close amost daily), small business (old people don't spend money), and plans for marriage and childrearing.
One fact supported by the math and data is that the longer a woman waits to have children (approximately 27), the higher the likelihood she never will. The "window" of opportunity is much sooner and shorter than previously believed, for various reasons.
Another short YouTube video I thoroughly enjoyed was "A Mediocre Samurai Describes Real Life in Historical Japan". It is a reading from an actual samurai's diary/memoirs from the 1800s with some visuals and graphics but it's mostly audio.
And this one:
"Japanese Castaway Gives First Description of USA (1852) // Incredible Story of John Manjiro", which I found so interesting because of how terrible his own Japanese people treated him (and each other) and how well the Americans treated him -- a total and "exotic" stranger. He had nothing bad to say about them. Read from his own words from his diary and memoirs.
the Avatar: the return of the Ancients & the future of America.
I think it's a continuation of his previous book 'Return of the Gods'.
I like the old Victoria Holt book too. She used to also write under the pen-name Jean Plaidy too. She wrote some interesting books that were royal historical fiction.
Currently when I get the chance to read, I'm discovering the work of Phillippa Gregory. I love it.