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Like it or not many of us are living longer and as we approach the end of our lives, many of us听 need more rather than less care.听 Often it falls to the next generation 鈥� the adult children, relatives, sometimes even neighbours or friends 鈥� to pick up the reigns.听 We鈥檙e looking at what happens when you鈥檙e called on to provide this kind of care for parents and other relatives.How involved are you?听 Are you able to share the responsibilities with your siblings or other relatives? What impact does caring for them have on your own life and other family responsibilities.听 Have you thought about moving a parent in with you or perhaps moved into their home instead.听 Or perhaps you鈥檝e helped to move them into some kind of sheltered accommodation or care home.听We鈥檙e going to be exploring the other side of the coin too 鈥� how it feels to ask for help when living independently becomes a problem. Author Carol Lee joins Jane in the studio.听Her memoir Out of Winter, explore how she cared for her parents long distance.听We also hear from listeners and from Nel Hales, who is still living听independently at the age of one hundred.

Out of Winter, published by Hodder and Stoughton听was out on the 27th February 2014.

What does being a Game Changer mean? Jenni Murray talks to two women whose personal experience turned them into game changers. Cynthia Barlow began aafter her only daughter was killed in a collision with a cement truck. This year she was awarded an OBE for services to road safety. Carmel McConnell was a business consultant when teachers at a school she was visiting told her children were arriving so hungry they couldn鈥檛 learn. The result was, now a national charity that has delivered more than 6 million breakfasts to schools over the past ten years.听

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Get involved in the debate on twitter with your suggestions: @麻豆社WomansHour #whgamechangers

The听sister of Corporal Anne-Marie Ellement, the Military Policewoman who committed suicide, gives her reaction to the coroner鈥檚 report into her sister鈥檚 suicide. The coroner found that bullying was a factor in Anne Marie鈥檚 death and he has called for the Ministry of Defence to review its care of vulnerable soldiers. Jenni talks to Sharon Hardy and Emma Norton from the human rights charity Liberty, which gave legal support to Anne-Marie Ellement鈥檚 family.听

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On Monday Woman鈥檚 Hour, Jane Garvey听talks to US music star Kelis about her life-long love of food and music, and how she鈥檚 bringing both together in her forthcoming album Food. She talks about the changes she鈥檚 made to her life - becoming a cordon bleu chef, divorcing her rapper husband Nas when pregnant, and the joys of motherhood. She shares her thoughts on feminism and her bold and sexy image in her big Neptunes-produced nineties r鈥檔鈥檅 hits Caught Out There and Milkshake. And she explains how after growing up with jazz and home-cooked food in Harlem, she鈥檚 now fusing the two influences in her latest album, Food, with tracks like Jerk Ribs, Friday Fish Fry, and Biscuits N鈥� Gravy, and made with TV On The Radio鈥檚 Dave Sitek.

You can see and hear Kelis online - playing and talking at last weekend鈥檚 inaugural 麻豆社听听- by visiting the 6 Music website.

Food is out on Ninja Tunes in April

Kelis's Jerk ribs recipe

Jerk rib听rub:

2 pounds pork back ribs

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup kosher salt

1tbspn cayenne pepper

2 tbspn garlic powder

1tspn whole听caraway seeds

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Jerk sauce:

1/2 tspn sesame oil

1tbspn soy sauce

2 fresh thyme sprigs

2 garlic cloves, chopped

1 bunch scallions

2 tbspns molasses

1 scotch bonnet

Method:

Put the rub on the ribs. Cover them, let them cook at 400F for 2 and a half听hours. Add jerk sauce. Bake a little more until cooked through.听

When journalist Hannah Pool hosted a debate about the politics of afro hair at last year鈥檚 Women of the World festival, she knew that festival goers were interested in the subject, but didn鈥檛 expect what happened next.听 Footage of the debate has clocked up an extraordinary fifty thousand views on Youtube and she鈥檚 back, by popular demand, at the festival this year.听 So why are so many people keen to engage in a debate about hair?听 Hannah joins Jenni, along with hair and make-up artist Editi Udofot, to explain why.

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Sheila Chisholm (1895-1969) left the New South Wales sheep station on which she was born and came to England, 听where she became known as one of the most glamorous society women of the first half of the 20th century. 听Her connections spanned Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Hollywood and the Kennedys. She married three men - a Scottish Lord, an English baron and a Russian prince 鈥� and attracted many others, including Prince Albert and Rudolph Valentino. 听Her friends included Evelyn Waugh, Wallis Simpson and Nancy Mitford. Journalist Robert Wainwright tells Jenni how he fell in love with the story of this Australian commoner who became a princess.

This week The Sun newspaper launched its Check 鈥榚m Tuesday campaign to encourage women 鈥渢o get to know their breasts鈥�. Check 鈥榚m Tuesday is going to feature on Page 3 and will be run in partnership with the breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel.听 Readers are going to be encouraged to post photographs of themselves on social media sites feeling their breasts.听Can using听sexualised images of women create better awareness the disease? Jenni talks听to the founder of听CoppaFeel,听听28 year old Kristen Hallenga who听has incurable breast cancer.听