PRX - Pieces for Topic: Senior

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Caption: Gloria and Rose
Sassy and sagacious Gloria, 85, shares stories of being in both a conventional heterosexual marriage and a long-time same-sex relationship.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
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How the Spine Affects your Brain with Dr Shannon Parisi

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 16:37
Caption: Wine expert Narsi David, Credit: Reese Erlich 2014 (c)
Reese Erlich unravels a family tale and explores old wine making as he opens a mysterious magnum of Sebastiani Barbera.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 21:57
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Where do you turn when you can’t afford to live in the city?

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rick Rayburn cares for his wife Marianne who has dementia., Credit: Andrew Nixon | Capital Public Radio
If you're not a caregiver now there's a good chance you'll become one, joining an estimated 66 million adults who make up the "backbone" of America...

Bought by KUER, KALW, KOSU, KQED, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 20
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Collin Smith (23), who became quadriplegic after a car accident in high school, talks with Ernest Greene (72) who volunteered to go to college with...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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First, after sending her only child off to college Lynn Darling felt lost. She tells her story of getting lost, and eventually being found. Then, D...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 54:53
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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First, strength training sculpts the body by building lean body mass and increases metabolism. Joan Pagano explains simple ways to add strength tra...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
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First, as more of the population approaches their fifties and sixties, it may seem that our fast-changing cultural standards may out pacing older a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
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This hour: the delicate interdependence between being in need and answering the call to help.

Bought by WEZU, WCBE, WRIR, WVPE, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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This chat with my nanny, Evelyn Smail, was recorded at her seniors' home in Morrisburg ON about a year ago. Created by me, it was produced by Ashle...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:14
Caption: Bob Quin in leather jacket
I brought a microphone when I visited my grandfather, and he told stories I'd never heard. This is one of those stories, with original music and so...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1
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First, people can be easily overwhelmed at the prospect of providing care for an elderly parent. Jody Gastfriend has many tips for the boomer gener...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
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First, choosing a healthcare plan is about cost and more importantly knowing which physicians are covered at the best hospitals. Dr. Archelle Georg...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WCWP


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
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The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 4
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First, an award-winning science writer, who like millions of baby boomers, helped care for her aging parents, explores the grueling moral choices w...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCWP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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Aunt Nuska has lost her appetite and the whole family bonds together to find a remedy for her.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:43
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
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Radio Curious discusses the rights of families to care for their dead and the funeral industry in this two-part interview with Lisa Carlson and Jos...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
Caption: Frances Hilary McGuigan, Credit: Doug Dobery
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2013
  • Length: 54:59