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After serving almost three decades as on the Board of Monroe County Commissioners, she announced she won't be running for reelection
- Added: Feb 18, 2016
- Length: 08:43
Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Getting seniors comfortable with using technology is the aim of SF Connected, the City initiative that administers the class at 30th Street Senior ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Blue zones are areas of the world where people live longest. Architects studying these “Landscapes of Longevity” say that our surroundings have mor...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Peter Richardson, a lecturer at San Francisco State, was teaching a course on the Grateful Dead at a school for adults over 50. A cultural history ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 07:44
- Purchases: 1
At the Livermore Veteran’s Hospital, there are a few animals residents can see: wild turkeys that run around the grounds, rattlesnakes that hide ou...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
People who feel younger than their chronological age are also less likely to die.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Researchers make new inroads into preventing age-related diseases.
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...
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- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Healthy people need the flu shot every year, especially to help protect those who are more vulnerable to complications from the virus.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
According to official estimates, there are currently over 50 thousand older adults in Boulder County that are at least 60 years old. 13,000 are at ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 06:07
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 01:00
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...
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- Added: May 18, 2014
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
Already a few weeks into the year, it might feel too late to make (or keep) resolutions—eat less sugar, watch less TV, or maybe, start running. Rep...
Bought by KENW, KSKA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 3
This week on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh speaks with Mela Hatchett and Mary Boutain of the Area 10 Agency on Aging about the changing percepti...
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- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 59:07
- Purchases: 1
On Thursday September 26, 2013 IU Health hosted an evidence based seminar on Aging. The talk was broad-ranging, covering topics of longevity, genet...
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 57:34
Recreation Therapy is a program offered to patients to either increase or maintain their physical, psychosocial as well as mood states. Recreation ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 06:18
Older people are particularly juicy targets for swindlers and con artists, and the problem's getting worse as more Americans get older.
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 04:58
Jaime Sweany gives a short history of the Endwright Center and talks about the programs and impact the center hopes to make in helping the elderly ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 05:03
Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, state agencies around the country say they are seeing an increase in reports of abuse of elderly p...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 09:31
A provision in the immigration reform proposal would allow wealthy retirees to stay longer in this country without a visa. This could be a boon to ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 03:51
When people move into nursing homes they tend to assume their days of taking vacations are over. Not at the Camden Care Center in Minneapolis wher...
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 05:53
