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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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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners to stimulate dialogue on trends with great momentum to advance gerontology. The Momentum Discussions podcasts delve into various aging-related topics and features conversations with experts in the field. The podcasts explore the latest research, trends, and practical applications in gerontology, covering themes such as the impacts of aging on health, social systems, and policy. Its goal is t ...
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Hi, I’m Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, your host of WISDOM AT WORK: : Older Women, Elderwomen, Grandmothers on the Move!, the podcast that kicks old stereotypes to the curb! Come meet these creative, outrageous, authentic, adventurous, irreverent and powerful Disrupters and Influencers. Older Women, Elderwomen, Grandmothers – from the living room to the courtroom – making powerful contributions in every walk of life. We know them most intimately as loving caregivers, the older women in our lives wit ...
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bOLDer People is a production of the University of Southern Indiana exploring the dynamic lives of older adults in southwestern Indiana and highlighting initiatives of the USI Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. So, let’s listen, learn, and be inspired by their stories of triumph, love, uncertainty, perseverance and much more. Welcome to the bOLDer People podcast. This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Se ...
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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) brings together educators, clinicians, administrators, researchers, and students who share their experiences, expertise, and innovations in aging. The GSA On Aging Podcast series covers a wide range of topics related to aging and gerontology. It features interviews with experts and discussions on research papers published in various GSA journals. The series explores various aspects of aging, including dementia, technology, ageism, age-friendly comm ...
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Telling Stories in Sound and Images
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Learn about the fitness and wellness modalities offered at Ageless Fitness and Vitality Booth Wellness Center including: Cryotherapy, Halotherapy, Red Light Therapy, Infrared Sauna, Compression Therapy, and Fitness.
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The Called to Flourish Podcast covers mental health topics through a Catholic Christian perspective to highlight human dignity and help achieve an integrated healing process of the heart, mind, and soul. It is hosted by Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL, President of Divine Mercy University (DMU), and Thomas Cronquist, Director of Institutional Advancement at DMU. Divine Mercy University is a graduate school of mental health and spiritual development that integrates Catholic Christian anthro ...
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Vital Views is a weekly podcast created by UNLV School of Nursing to discuss health care from a Rebel Nursing perspective. We share stories and expert information on both nursing-specific and broader healthcare topics to bring attention to the health trends and issues that affect us. New episodes every Tuesday. Feedback? Questions? Episode Ideas? Email vital.views@unlv.edu.
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How can you as a professional therapist be challenged, grow personally and professionally, and find resources and knowledgeable experts that are relevant and enlightening? We think that you will find this and more in our podcast, The Therapist’s Chair. The Therapist’s Chair, with your host Andrew B, attempts to answer the important questions that are relevant to you, the practicing therapist. There are almost unlimited ways in which social services attempts to provide appropriate treatment t ...
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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang
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I have to start with the song. On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it go.” This time around several suggestions were raised. Eric suggested, “Even Flow,” by Pearl Jam. Someone else suggested, “Under Pressure,” but we’ve done it already. We settled on, “Oops…I did it again,” by Britney Spears. In some ways the s…
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History, Ethics, and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Laura Bothwell
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With its unique history filled with both triumphs and dark chapters, public health researchers and professionals have an ethical responsibility to examine the past as they aspire to shape the future of public health by conducting effective and ethical health-related research and work today.In this episode, Shivani interviews the esteemed ethicist a…
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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera
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I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. In today's podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. Eduardo establ…
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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon
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As Eric notes at the end of today’s podcast, we talk about many difficult issues with our patients. How long they might have to live. Their declining cognitive abilities. What makes their lives meaningful, brings them joy, a sense of purpose. But one issue we’re not as good at discussing with our patients is sexual health. On today’s podcast Areej …
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Reflecting on the Loneliness Epidemic: Interview with Blake Waranch
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Feeling lonely in a world more connected than ever? You’re not alone. On this episode of YJBM, join our host, Shankeri Vijayakumar, as she chats with our guest Blake Waranch about how loneliness is affecting our lives today. Whether you’re feeling a bit isolated or just want to understand more about why loneliness is such a big deal right now, this…
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A Love Affair with CEDAW and Gender Equality: In Conversation with Alda Facio
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Send us a Text Message. Meet Alda Facio, a feminist activist, educator, creator and jurist whose work has influenced thinking about women's rights from Costa Rica to the United Nations. In this episode, Alda talks about her love affair with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and her 2 decades wor…
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Palliative Care for Kidney Failure: Sam Gelfand, Kate Sciacca, and Josh Lakin
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The landscape of options for treating people with kidney failure is shifting. It used to be that the “only” robust option in the US was dialysis. You can listen to our prior podcast with Keren Ladin talking about patients who viewed dialysis as their only option, and structural issues that led to this point (including this takedown of for profit di…
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Louise Lamothe - Reflections and resonance: from healing, to the dancing lens and bringing colour to colour-less spaces
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Send us a Text Message. Join me for an intimate conversation with Louise Lamothe, a Swampy Cree grandmother and great-grandmother, whose story is a testament to the healing journeys and deep insights older women and Indigenous ways of knowing and being have to teach us. There is so much to learn from Louise, as she shares stories of her work as a p…
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Welcome to the last episode of YJBM Science News for the school year of 2023-2024! We are so thankful to all our listeners who were here for our journey. We will continue releasing our other podcast project over the summer, and in the meantime – stay tuned for next year’s Yale Science News, starting in August of 2024! Links: https://www.nature.com/…
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How Pharma Invents Diseases: A Podcast with Adriane Fugh-Berman
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Who gets to decide on what it means to have a disease? I posed this question a while back in reference to Alzheimer's disease. I’ll save you from reading the article, but the main headline is that corporations are very much the “who” in who gets to define the nature of disease. They do this either through the invention of disease states or, more of…
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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow
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On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Their work is pretty impressive in both reach (some of their posts are seen by millions of viewers) and breadth of work. We…
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Mr. John Crawford & the Importance of Family
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Welcome to the seventh episode of bOLDer People! In this episode, guest host, and former bOLDer People Producer, Leah Flake invites John Crawford into the studio. John is a retired engineer who now spends his time working in record preservation. He and his wife, Sherry, volunteer to digitize historical records, to make them available to the public …
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Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past two weeks.Links:https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319566121https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.202303…
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ACHIEVE: A Landmark Study of the Effect of Hearing Intervention on Brain Health in Older Adults
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In this Momentum Discussion Podcast episode, Dr. Frank Lin, co-primary investigator of the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders, or ACHIEVE, study discusses this landmark study examining the effect of hearing intervention on brain health. ACHIEVE is a multicenter randomized trial to determine if treating hearing loss in older adults redu…
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Hendrica Okondo: Reflections on history, power and generations of feminist resilience
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Send us a Text Message. This week, I had the honour of sitting down with Hendrica Okondo, a natural storyteller who makes the phrase 'living memory' resonate, with profundity and humour! Hendrica paints a vivid picture of colonial Kenya and independence, with economic, cultural, human rights and scientific insights and learnings that challenge and …
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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC
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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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Social Gerontology and Psychology of Caregiving: an Interview with Dr. Joan Monin
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What does it mean to love and care for someone who has a different way of experiencing the world? How can we understand the way emotions may be expressed to us differently than they were before in a relationship? In this episode, our host Shivani has a conversation with researcher, professor, and artist Dr. Joan Monin. Dr. Monin shares her interest…
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Social Gerontology and Psychology of Caregiving: an Interview with Dr. Joan Monin
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What does it mean to love and care for someone who has a different way of experiencing the world? How can we understand the way emotions may be expressed to us differently than they were before in a relationship? In this episode, our host Shivani has a conversation with researcher, professor, and artist Dr. Joan Monin. Dr. Monin shares her interest…
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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Bob Wachter
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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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Stuck in the Middle: What Belly Fat Is Doing To Your Health
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The National Caucus and Center on Black Aging (NCBA) developed the report “Stuck in the Middle” to address all aspects of obesity, including but not limited to causes, effects, statistical profiles, myths and misconceptions, public policy, ways to address obesity, resources for managing obesity, barriers to accessing a full continuum of care, and m…
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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer
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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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Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2024.03.002https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-024-02809-y…
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Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week. Links: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2024.03.002 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-024-02809-y…
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How Climate Change and Pollution Affect Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kai Chen
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Climate change is not only measured in catastrophic events – it has a gradual impact on the individual health of people all around the world. In this episode of the YJBM podcast, Shivani interviews Dr. Kai Chen, an environmental epidemiologist, researcher, and Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. In this interview, Dr. Chen discusses his …
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Alter - Empowering African American Churches to Support Members with Dementia and Their Families
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The Alter program is a nurse-led, dementia-friendly congregation program aimed at empowering African American churches to serve all members, including those living with dementia and their families. Fayron Epps, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN, developed the Alter program to increase dementia awareness; develop a supportive, faith-based dementia-friendly infras…
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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand
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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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