Episodes
Aug. 19, 2024
Where Do We Come From? Finding Your Roots with Modern Genealogy
As a nation of immigrants, we’ve long been interested in genealogy, curious about our home countries, the families we left behind, and what motivated them to come to America. In recent years, genealogical research seems to ha...
Aug. 12, 2024
PEIR: A Lifelong Learning Program with Few Peers
As older adults move into their traditional retirement years, a growing number of them do not want to retire their minds. In fact, many experts note that those who continue learning and engage in meaningful social interaction...
Aug. 5, 2024
How Retired Executives of SCORE Help Next-Gen Entrepreneurs
When people approach middle age, you might expect them to begin thinking about retirement, but these days, many people are far from winding down. In fact, they’re just getting started—as part of a growing cohort of first-time...
July 29, 2024
How an “Inner Mastery Specialist” Can Make Your Vision a Reality
As we move along into our midlife career journey, we may feel that success and well-being are still within us, and yet…the stress of daily living and our own internal blocks may be clouding that potential. Something is holdin...
July 22, 2024
How to Create a Personal Wellness Plan through Your Elder Years
As we get older, we all strive to increase the years of “healthspan,” along with our lifespan. But how can we plan to sustain overall wellness during elderhood—potentially into our 90s—not only our physical health, but our me...
July 15, 2024
Taking a Hot Summer Break with Good Humor—and not Just Ice Cream
This has been a particularly hot summer, between 100-plus degree weather and the fiery political rhetoric filling our nation’s airwaves and social media. So let’s take a break—a much-needed humor break—and lower the scorching...
July 8, 2024
Medicare Is Always Changing—Is It Time to Review your Plan?
Anyone who has gone through the process of signing up for Medicare quickly comes to the same conclusion: It’s complicated! Even if you’re already enrolled, plans and regulations may change, as well as your personal health nee...
July 1, 2024
How to Stop Striving for ‘Happy’ and Find True Well-Being
As we enter the second half of the year, it’s a good time to pause and take stock of how we’re feeling about ourselves as we move into the second half of 2024. Are we happy with our life? Well, that’s not really the right que...
June 24, 2024
A Passionate Advocate Fights to Reinvent Nursing Homes
For the past several years, nursing homes have come under intense public scrutiny, as more than 200,000 long-term care residents and staff have died due to the COVID pandemic. Healthcare officials, advocates, policy makers an...
June 17, 2024
Orlene Grant: An Innovative Leader, Giving Voice to Older Adults
There are many advocates for older adults these days, but few like Orlene Grant, an iconic leader acclaimed for building innovative partnerships across government entities, higher education, local and national nonprofits. In ...
June 10, 2024
Leaving Your Long-Time Home? How Will You Handle the Transition?
It’s a frequent scenario for older couples or surviving spouses: They find themselves unable to manage the home they’ve lived in for years and realize that, regrettably—but inevitably—it’s time to move on. Sometimes the decis...
June 3, 2024
Meet the “Amaezing” Mae Caime, former Ms. New York Senior
Just over a year ago, Mae Caime was crowned Ms. New York Senior America for 2023. But the contest was not a beauty pageant. Rather, it was a competition based on talent and presentation skills, and this recognition was a crow...
May 20, 2024
Solving the Climate Crisis: A Worthy Goal for Our Elder Years
As we continue to celebrate Older Americans Month, we often ponder our legacy as we age—not only our personal legacy, but the larger legacy we want to leave for our planet. We know that climate change is a huge challenge, and...
May 13, 2024
Looking for a Great Way to ‘Age in Community’? Consider a NORC.
When older Americans are asked about where they want to live during their later years, an overwhelming majority say they want to “age in place”—in the comfort, safety and security of their current home, for as long as possibl...
May 6, 2024
How to Master “Rejuvenaging”—Growing Older with Enthusiasm
As we kick off Older Americans Month, what better way to celebrate their contributions than to highlight the perspective and achievements of an extraordinarily active octogenarian. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Ronald ...
April 29, 2024
The ABCs of ADUs: How Accessory Dwelling Units are Taking Off
Across the country, many aging homeowners want to age comfortably in place—but they often face a number of obstacles. Sometimes, their homes, intended for their once-larger families, are too much to maintain for empty-nesters...
April 22, 2024
A Financial Literacy Expert Unpacks Skills Needed for Every Age
On December 31, 1999, Ellen Smiley left the airline industry, after a career spanning more than 30 years with British Airways. She took a few interim jobs, eventually landing at a large credit union on Long Island, where she ...
April 15, 2024
Celebrating Earth Day through the Wonder of “Awe Walks”
There are special moments in life when we experience a profound sense of awe at the planet we inhabit—such as the recent solar eclipse, when communities across America gathered in public spaces to gaze at the sky in wonder. I...
April 1, 2024
April is National Financial Literacy Month—for Both Young and Old
It’s been 21 years since the U.S. Senate declared April to be National Financial Literacy Month, and since that time, financial education has become a perennial national issue, especially among young people who need key skill...
March 25, 2024
A Distinguished Jurist Reflects Back—and Forward—on Her Career
As we close out Women’s History Month, we talk with the Hon. Gail Prudenti, who reflects on her continually ground-breaking career as a distinguished jurist, law school dean and now partner of a boutique New York law firm. Ju...
March 18, 2024
Healthy Psychosocial Habits We All Need to Age Well and Wisely
About six years ago, as Scott Fisher and Ben Green approached their 70th birthdays, the challenges of aging loomed ever larger for these two lifelong friends. Both of us had known people who had reached their eighties and nin...
March 11, 2024
The Surprising Coast-to-Coast Journey of a Doctor-Entrepreneur
Dr. Ken Redcross is an internist with over 20 years of medical practice. He also is a concierge doctor to a number of families; volunteers as a physician tending to dementia patients in assisted living facilities; appears as ...
March 4, 2024
The Challenge of Lifting Women of Color to Next-Level Leadership
As we begin the annual celebration Women’s History Month, it’s a good time to take a closer look at how women are progressing in their careers and in the workplace—specifically women of color. While women of color represent 2...
Feb. 26, 2024
Rising Up Out of the Pandemic, a New Vision for Nursing Homes
Since 2020, the COVID pandemic has had a brutal impact on nursing homes, accounting for more than 200,000 deaths of residents and staff in long-term care facilities. Subsequently, the nursing-home industry has been the subjec...