Advance Directives - A Guide to Documenting Your Healthcare Wishes
If you are incapable of making medical decisions, who would you want to speak for you? How do you let them know what is important to you in your care? We discuss the importance of preparation at any ...
27 Dec 202452min
How to Boost Sleep for Mental and Physical Wellbeing
The expectations we put upon ourselves for a "perfect" holiday can wreak havoc on our stress levels, mood, and relationships. One of the things we can do to take care of ourselves is to get enough res...
20 Dec 202434min
Memory and Alzheimer's Disease
Can multivitamin supplements help prevent memory loss and mental decline in older adults? We share research that shows encouraging results, and why you should start taking a supplement now. Learn a...
13 Dec 202455min
Making the Decision to Euthanize a Pet
When is it time to say goodbye to a pet at end of life? We talk about this agonizing decision in this episode, and give you a quality of life assessment tool in our show notes to help with your decisi...
6 Dec 202451min
Growth and Remembrance: What to Expect Your Third Year of Grief
Does grief get smaller over time, or do we instead we grow larger around it? Two years after trauma of the death we typically move into a period of healing and self-correction. The third year after ...
30 Nov 202457min
How to Avoid Falls, the Leading Cause of Death for Older Adults
Falling is more than a bruise to our dignity; it can lead to disability, bone breaks, brain bleeds, loss of independence, and premature deaths. Learn the risks and how to avoid them. https://bit.ly/4e...
22 Nov 202444min
Dying in Good Health: Can We Have a Healthy Aging Process?
Can making good choices extend our healthy life and shorten the dying process at the end? https://bit.ly/4hReUVp In this Episode: 01:46 - Ready for the Holidays?06:47 - Lore Segal, Émigré Life Nove...
15 Nov 202425min
USA's Falling Life Expectancy, and Deaths of Despair
How does the USA have a declining life expectancy while other developed countries are rising? Researchers feel it is from deaths of despair. Learn what the factors are and how we can help reverse the ...
8 Nov 202429min
