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A geriatrics and palliative care podcast for every health care professional. We invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night. You'll laugh, learn and maybe sing along. Hosted by Eric Widera and Alex Smith. CME available!
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This is a lifestyle podcast about exploring everyday life questions ranging from aging successfully, racial injustice, educational disparities, popular culture, and any other interesting topic of the day. As a Black medical professional, husband, and father, Dr. Graham will bring perspective to these topics that may not always be shared in meaningful dialogue. Dr. Graham is a Geriatrician, Educator, and Community Health Advocate. He has practiced medicine for 10 years, is an active member of ...
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Perioperative Medicine Podcast Series

Monash University - Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine.

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Perioperative Medicine Short Course is conducted by Monash University (Central Clinical School - Alfred Hospital), in conjunction with the Alfred Hospital and Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. As part of our drive to improve and promote perioperative medicine education we are launching our PeriopMed podcast series.
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A Certain Age is an age-positive podcast that helps you live your best, evolving midlife. We know the only constant is change. Kids grow. Jobs come and go. What it takes to be fit, healthy, happy, and fulfilled looks waaaay different than it did in our thirties and forties. Amp up your midlife with expert tips, tools, and resources to help with the hard stuff and light you up about what’s next. Pop in your AirPods and spend time with women just like you who are knocking it out of the midlife ...
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Welcome to Spotlight on Care, the podcast where we share stories, experiences, tips and advice on caring for loved ones affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Spotlight on Care is produced by the University of California, Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, UCI MIND. Please subscribe to the Spotlight on Care podcast wherever you listen. For more information, visit mind.uci.edu. What would like to hear about next? Email us at mwitbrac@uci.edu.
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The Art of Aging

Ruth Frost Parker Center

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The Art of Aging seeks to provide information and inspiration on how to improve our lives as we grow older. This podcast is produced by the Dayton Foundation Encore Fellows Initiative and the Ruth Frost Parker Center of Abundant Aging.
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Welcome to Golden Topics, which are personal discussions with a variety of professionals on critically important elder issues. Hi, my name is Mirit Hoffman, I am a mother of three, a Gerontologist and an attorney specializing in elder law. My focus is helping senior citizens to stay in control when they reach significant junctions in their lives. These podcasts are personal discussions with a variety of professionals and are intended for anyone who is interested in being enriched with knowle ...
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We Really Need To Talk

Ithaca College Gerontology Institute

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We Really Need To Talk is a podcast about the conversations we should be having with our loves ones about the end of life. Gerontology professor Elizabeth Bergman and former Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center Program Coordinator Lisa Richards and their guests will talk about how to approach these conversations as well as how to sort through last wishes, advance care planning and choices about life-sustaining treatment. And they do it all with a healthy dose of love and humor.
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Virginia and Steve are joined by Nathaniel Chin, MD, a geriatrician, associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine, Medical Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and host and creator of the popular Dementia Matters podcast. Dr. Chin recounts how his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis and dementia jou…
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As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits? In the ICU at the bedside? Nurses. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. We talk tod…
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At 31, Deesha Dyer interned in the White House as a community college student. Four years later, she was White House Social Secretary. In today’s show, Deesha shares her unlikely career story and her brand-new memoir, Undiplomatic, a deeply personal narrative about combating self-doubt while being on top of the world. We get into the evolution of c…
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Eric asks the question that is on many of our minds - is the future of AI more Skynet from Terminator, in which AI takes over the world and drives humanity to the brink of extinction, or Wall-E, in which a benevolent and empathetic AI restores our humanity? Our guest today is Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF and author of the Digital Doctor: …
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Get in the driver’s seat of your midlife health with supportive straight talk from one of Michelle Obama’s favorite doctors, Dr. Sharon Malone. A nationally known expert on women’s health, Dr. Malone is the author of the new book Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy. Here’s a wake-up call: The changing shape of the US healthc…
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Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the one hand, when people have ambivalence but haven't explored why they are ambivalent, they are prone to bad, value-incongruent decisions. On the other hand, acknowledging and exploring ambivalence may lead to better, more ethical, and less biased decisions. On today's podcast, J…
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Meet photographer Kate T. Parker. You may have already slowed your Instagram scroll to see her captivating depictions of girls and women as fierce competitors, athletes, and vibrant, powerful, joyous beings. You may know her best-selling books, “Strong Is the New Pretty” and “Play Like A Girl.” Now, Kate is back with her latest book, “Force of Natu…
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Benjamin Smarr Ph.D. discusses wearable tech in health research, stressing community engagement in data sharing. He explores sensors tracking temperature, heart rate, and more, noting the importance of naps for health. Smarr addresses reliability, access, and the link between sleep and conditions like dementia. He mentions ongoing research beyond t…
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Benjamin Smarr Ph.D. discusses wearable tech in health research, stressing community engagement in data sharing. He explores sensors tracking temperature, heart rate, and more, noting the importance of naps for health. Smarr addresses reliability, access, and the link between sleep and conditions like dementia. He mentions ongoing research beyond t…
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In 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in a water filled ditch. She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that…
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Like so many women in the swirl of perimenopause, health care founder and venture capitalist Joanna Strober found herself in midlife, suffering the fallout from fluctuating hormones and repeatedly misdiagnosed. What came next was Midi Health, a virtual care company for women 40+, offering high-quality medical care to women in perimenopause and meno…
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Claudia H. Kawas, M.D., addresses Alzheimer's disease and related conditions in older adults, noting the challenge of accurate diagnosis and the resemblance of other brain conditions to Alzheimer's. She introduces "resistance" and "resilience," explaining how some individuals remain cognitively intact despite brain changes. Kawas suggests declining…
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One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Well, as a kick off to this ye…
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Want to be happier, calmer, wiser? Do you long to feel more deeply connected to your children, parents, and partner? On this week’s show, Dr. Jenny Woo shares how she channeled a young immigrant’s desire for a sense of belonging and identity into a booming company offering 11 EQ-focused card games that she developed at the world-famous Harvard Inno…
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What is frailty? Kate Callahan relates a clear metaphor on today’s podcast. A frail person is like an origami boat: fine in still water, but can’t withstand a breeze, or waves. Fundamentally, frailty is about vulnerability to stress. In 2021 we talked with Linda Fried about phenotypic frailty. Today we talk with Kate Callahan, Ariela Orkaby, & Dae …
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A Just Culture in the workplace means that everyone should feel safe to speak up, and leads to open and honest communication, systems thinking, engagement, and participation, where everyone is involved in making improvements. Professor Janet Anderson and Garry Mann, our Human Factors team, talk to Yooralla’s Director of Just Culture Miranda Corneli…
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The midlife wake-up call. Yes, it's 2024—but menopause care is still not considered essential health care. But we are at a tipping point, and the clarion call for a “menopause moonshot” is on. Lawyer, activist, and menstruation activist Jennifer Weiss-Wolf is calling for a bold U.S. public policy agenda to bring a two-pronged approach to tackling m…
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Almost a decade ago, our hospice and palliative care team decided to do a “Thickened Liquid Challenge.” This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. The rules of the challenge were simple: fluids must be thickened to “honey consistency” using a beverage thic…
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Up all night tossing and turning? Tired and groggy when the alarm rings? Double-certified holistic sleep coach Morgan Adams knows what it’s like to struggle with sleep. A former insomniac who used prescription sleeping pills for years, Morgan finally got sleep down to a science. Now, she is helping other women get the consistent, high-quality sleep…
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In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas (like this NY Times article from 2021). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. So, on today’s podcast, we try to g…
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Lyn Slater amassed nearly 1 million followers on Instagram and built a career as a highly paid fashion influencer known as the Accidental Icon, but it made her miserable. On this week’s show, Lyn walks us through her memoir “How to Be Old,” which explores how the former social worker and professor became a front-row fixture at fashion shows and the…
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Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! Eric and I take questions from you, our listeners, about: why we podcast, our most controversial podcast, which podcast changed our practice, favorite song request, should all nursing home residents complete the POLST, expanding access to durable medical equipment, palliati…
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Love a woman who is aging out loud? Come hang out with Maryjane Fahey, the creative force behind the viral social media account Glorious Broads. We dive into why no one wants to be 20 anymore, the glory of independence, reinvention, speaking one’s mind and great sex after 60. Plus, the hard work of self-love and why we need to put the work in to ma…
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In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block, she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. That rings true to me. Toda…
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Are you hellbent on living your later years with health, vitality, and joy? Want straight-talking, anti-anti-aging information on thriving as you age? If so, please meet Dr. Rosanne Leipzig, author of “Honest Aging: An Insider’s Guide to the Second Half of Life.” We dive into evidence-based recommendations for navigating the natural changes that im…
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We've talked about Falls a couple of times on this podcast, most recently with Tom Gill about the STRIDE study and before that with Sarah Szanton about the CAPABLE study. A takeaway from those podcasts is that fresh innovative thinking in the falls prevention space is welcome. Today we talk with the twin sister power duo of Carmen Quatman and Katie…
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