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A professor of Art at Syracuse University specializing in printmaking now aware of how toxic some art materials are and how damaging the mining and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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Rona Maynard found happiness at 65—a story she tells in her new memoir Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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This episode looks at the difficulty of realizing that a loved one is experiencing cognitive decline.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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Over the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care,...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:02
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Kim Rahir is a 60 year old mother of three who was diagnosed with MS 10 years ago and was in a wheelchair. She ignored her doctor's advice and slow...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 28:04
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I think we all are searching for a more meaningful and joy filled life, but don’t quite know where to start

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Confusing Medicare ads are everywhere!, Credit: Leslie Walker/Tradeoffs
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries. Private...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:15
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Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 32:48
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 20:42
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Generational discussion about work ethics, first recorded in May of 2002, now added to our archive.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 22:27
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Topic 1: A pediatrician who promotes public health awareness through writing for TV shows. Topic 2: The risk of suicide among seniors is a growing ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 49:32
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The Healthy Happy Feet Show with Dr Sohan Patel Podiatrist. What are some ways to prevent and heal plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, diabetic foot iss...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 27:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Older, Middle and Younger generations guests discuss the nature of female sex drive over time.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 51:26
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We humans like to discuss all kinds of topics, but we seem to have trouble when it comes to sex. We are very interested in it even though our comfo...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 51:26
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of CareMore Health, a coordinated and integrated health care sy...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
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More than 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult every year, according to AARP. Managing an aging parent’s health care can be c...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:40
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Dr. David Agus, one of the world's leading cancer physicians and researchers, chronicled innovative steps we can take to prevent illness and prolon...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
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The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
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Maine has a large population of senior drivers. How do we keep them safe, and what do these seniors have to say about staying on the road?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christine Atkinson being helped off an On Lok van by driver Esteban Escobedo., Credit: Isabel Angell
Part of getting older means you can’t get around like you used to. Maybe you can’t drive a car anymore, or hike up those big San Francisco hills to...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
Caption: Deputies Joe Crittle and Diego Perez, Credit: Ninna Gaensler-Debs
When a landlord and a tenant are involved in a dispute, an eviction from the property is the last resort. And when evictions do occur in San Franci...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Older, middle and younger generation guests discuss dysfunctional families

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
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Second part of our generational discussion on surveillance.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Generational discussion about family owned businesses

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00