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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 trend for ourselves and our communities. Show Notes and Resources: https://bit.ly/3Cm4SLI
02:40 - Celebrating Supercentenarians: Sister André dies at 11804:43 - Recipe of the Week: French Chocolate Truffles06:26 - Why is the USA's Life Expectancy Falling and What Can We Do About It?24:23 - Old Age is a Gift, an Essay by Margaret Berry (at 100 Years!)27:52 - Outro
Americans Die Prematurely More than Twice as Often as Countries with Similar Wealth - Why?
In 2015, life expectancy in the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, fell for the first time in decades. When compared with similarly wealthy countries, Americans die prematurely more than twice as often. âDeaths as despairâ is an explanation given the trend of despair-related mortalities, and evaluated how despair contributes to the rising drug-, alcohol-, and suicide-related deaths among different racial groups.
We talk about the research surrounding this phenomena and what we as a society can do to help reverse the trend for ourselves and others.
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Can you work with the reality someone with dementia is experiencing? Our Guest Rachael Wonderlin joins us to explain how the method she teaches can save distress and how we need to reframe dementia care to understand time from their eyes.
02:30 - Recipe: Tim Walz's Turkey Trot Tater Tot Casserole03:16 - What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself From Scammers21:55 - Interview with Rachael Wonderlin on Embracing their Realityâą in Dementia Care37:01 - Outro
Charlie also delivers a very informative segment on how to avoid scammers.
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Is it possible to see how many lives vaccines have saved? We take a look at global and US trends, and also talk about the history of a deadly killerâŠtuberculosis. Find out what 2024 recommendations are so you can be up to date. Show notes with graphs: https://bit.ly/40ftEHd
We continue our series about deaths you donât have to die from by talking about immunizations. There are behaviors that we have that can rob us of the chance to live out our full life span; in the United States this is considered 80 years for women and 75 for men.
We now have vaccines to prevent more than 20 life-threatening diseases, helping people of all ages live longer, healthier lives. Immunization currently prevents 3.5 million to 5 million deaths every year from diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, flu, and tuberculosis. Diseases we no longer need to get sick and potentially die from if we receive immunizations against them.
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04:41 - Recipe of the Week: Honey & Garlic Chicken06:28 - Supercentenarian of the Week: Hester Ford08:47 - A History of Tuberculosis - a reading from Call the Midwife20:18 - Can Immunizations Save Lives? What History Shows Us24:22 - 2024 Recommended Immunizations for 50 and Older32:48 - "My Mirror" - Reflections on Aging35:32 - OutroSupport the show
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This weekâs show is about legacy, the way in which we are remembered after our deaths. Legacy goes beyond possessions to include the impact we leave on people, communities, and the world. After we die, what is communicated about our legacy is left up to other people. We can only hope that they will be kind. https://bit.ly/3BRyobY
04:50 - Recipe-Jackie Kennedy Onasisâ Casserole Marie Blanche06:03 - Remembering Ethel Skakel Kennedy10:14 - Who Curates Our Legacy Story?26:02 - Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train35:58 - Outro
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Did you know that people with higher education tend to live longer than those with less education? The death gap related to education is not necessarily between college grads and non-grads, but primarily between high school dropouts and graduates.
02:55 - Recipe of the Week: Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars03:49 - Supercentenarian Obituaries: Celebrating Ms. Virginia McLaurin 06:36 - How a High School Diploma May Prevent an Early Death19:46 - A Parent Saying Goodbye - A segment from the Jack Reacher novel The Enemy26:35 - Outro
We show you research that education may truly help us stay on the slow road to death. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4fjYq6n
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You may not be able to cheat death, but can you delay it?
02:48 - Celebrating Supercentarian Mamie Kirkland (1908-2022)04:11 - Recipe of the Week: Ginger Cemetery Cookies05:54 - Preventable Deaths: How Changes Now Can Improve Your Chances22:20 - Film Review: "Tuesday" - A Unique view of Death and How Facing it Changes Us32:36 - Outro
We know that everyone dies but the timing may be modified by our lifestyle choices. Learn what the research says can prevent premature death. https://bit.ly/4eNBj3C
Premature death is defined as a death that occurs before the average age of death in a particular population. It is a measure of unfulfilled life expectancy; in the United States it is death occurring before age 80. Up to half of all premature (or early) deaths in the United States are due to behavioral and other preventable factorsâincluding modifiable habits such as tobacco use, poor diet, and lack of exercise. Four factorsâpoor diet, high blood pressure, obesity, and tobacco useâare identified as primary causes of early death.
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Eating the right food can prevent disease or slow down the effects of a disease we already have. Learn how to read labels and shop wisely for whole foods. Show notes and resources: https://bit.ly/3N2HpkP
What does research have to say about processed vs whole foods, and how do you make the best choices?
Diet may be destiny when it comes to our health. If we switch from eating the Standard American Diet to one that is higher in whole plant foods, such as fruits and vegetables, we may lower our risk of developing certain diseases.
How Can the Right Foods Affect Health?
Realistic changes of diet and lifestyle may prevent most heart disease, stroke, diabetes, colon cancer, and smoking-related cancers. Food may not exactly be medicine, but eating the right food is one of the best ways to prevent disease or slow down the effects of a disease we already have. We talk about
04:06 â Celebrating a Supercentarian and the Research to Learn from their Lifestyles07:48 â Recipe of the Week: Copycat Samoa Girl Scout Cookies09:38 â Improving Our Chances of Long Life by Choosing the Right Foods35:11 â Will Our Planet Someday be Engulfed by the Sun?39:38 â Outro
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Does the gut microbiome affect immunity and other aspects of health? You'll be surprised how vital our tiny allies are, and how our diet affects their function!
Show Notes and Links: https://bit.ly/3BaeuIWGut Microbes produce numerous neurotransmitters vital to mental health, synthesize several vitamins, help the body absorb nutrients, and are linked to the immune system. Learn all about these important relationships so you can make the choices to help you live your best and longest life!
#microbiome #microbiota #gutmicrobes #kombucha #fermentation #mediterraneandiet #inflammation #chronicinflammation #hearthealthy #brainhealthy #everyonedies #everydayisagift #oprahIn This Episode:
01:33 - Is There a Reason to Chose a Non-Profit Hospice?11:24 - Ways to Die in the Future: Hacked Self-Driving Cars15:22 - Recipe of the Week: Strawberry Oatmeal Bars16:42 - The Gut Microbiome: Role in Your Health and Immune Function33:33 - An Anti-Inflammatory Diet36:46 - OutroSupport the show
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All this talk about microbiome, gut flora, prebiotics, probiotics...what does it all mean, and how important is it to our health? Learn all this and ways to foster that perfect balance. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/47oumUj
03:33 - Ways to Die in the Future - A Near Earth Asteroid08:03 - Recipe of the Week: Hummus09:52 - Understanding the Microbiome and its Role41:15 - A Diversified Microbiome45:45 - Outro
In this Episode:Magnificent Microbes!
As we continue our series about ways to slow our march toward the end of life, our topic this week is about our microbiome. You have probably heard of this term, but may wonder what it means and how it applies to you.
Our gut microbiome are microbes, and their genetic material is found in our gastrointestinal tract. Bacteria in our gut affect everything from our digestion to our mental health.
What does Our Microbiome do for Us?
Marianne shares the evolution of our microbiome and how it develops diversity. This is important because different bacteria help us digest food, produce vitamins, increase absorption, helps our immunity, and prevent bad bacteria from taking over.
Why is Balance Important?
When something disrupts the balance, such as antibiotics, it can allow "opportunistic growth" of organisms such as Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a germ that causes diarrhea and colitis.
How to Increase your Gut Diversity
We talk about several ways to foster diversity in your microbiome. Listen for several tips!
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Learn about the personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence your health, and steps you can take now to increase your longevity and quality of life. Listen, Show Notes and Resources: https://bit.ly/3ThbmRy
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03:22 - Ways to Die in the Future: Extended Old Age06:22 - Recipe of the Week: Road-Trippin' Tuna Salad08:12 - How to Take the Slow Road to Death with Informed Choices about Our Health42:13 - Supercentenarian Obituaries - Ruthie Tompson (1910-2021)45:18 - OutroTake the Scenic Route
Given that most people are death-adverse, why donât we take better care of ourselves so that we can stay on the slow road to death? Even though everyone dies, there are a wide range of preventable deaths, so we donât have to be first to this finish line.
This week we start a new series about preventing early death and what you can do to slow your roll to the end of life.
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How is debt and credit handled when someone dies? This issue affects surviving family members, creditors, and the legal system, making financial planning an essential aspect of estate planning.
03:52 - 7 Ways to Die in the Future: Your Spacesuit Springs a Leak06:50 - Recipe of the Week: Mrs. Carter's Strawberry Cake07:50 - Debt and Credit after Death, How to Prepare with Estate Planning16:49 - You Can't Take it With You19:31 - Outro
Understanding how debts are managed, and the legal steps involved in handling credit posthumously can provide valuable insights into estate planning, inheritance, and the financial stability of surviving family members.
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Your digital footprints linger well after death. What are the considerations for these perpetual assets to protect them from misuse? Learn in this episode.
03:00 â Take a Chill Out of Summer with a Boston Cooler08:03 â Our Digital Afterlife â Preparing Your Digital Legacy26:55 â 7 Ways to Die in the Future: Impaled by a Resurrected Wooly Mammoth!29:02 â Outro
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/46XQfto
In This Episode:Why do we need to concern ourselves with our digital footprints after we die?
This is the 5th episode in the series about the digital afterlife and this week we focus on what you can do to prepare so that your digital assets are used. Ignoring your digital assets can result in the loss of valuable financial and sentimental belongings and even compromise your identity if these assets fall into the wrong hands.
What steps should I take to safeguard my digital assets?A comprehensive estate plan should include a plan for digital assets to ensure they are managed or distributed according to your wishes. We talk in depth in this episode about the things you need to think about and consider. Also visit our related content and resources.
S5E17: Digital Assets after DeathâŠWhat Happens to Your Phone?S5E18: How to be Prepared for the Digital AfterlifeS4E49: How to Preserve a Life through Digital MemorialsS5E13: How Will Leading Causes of Death Change in the Future?S4E49: How to Preserve a Life through Digital MemorialsS4E52: Are You Prepared to Die? Get Ideas for Your Advance Care PlanningS4E7: Tips for Cleaning in the Fall of Our Lives
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This week we explore Virtual Reality (VR) and how VR can be incorporated into palliative care with studies documenting people reporting effectiveness in pain and symptom management and its psychological impact. VR can provide people with meaningful and uplifting experiences, thereby enhancing their emotional well-being, improving emotional state by fostering social connections and boosting self-esteem.
VR can transform the experiences of people at the end-of-life, providing them with comfort, support, and meaningful engagement during their final stages. The immersive and interactive nature of VR allows people to experience moments of joy, relief, and connection, which are crucial for emotional well-being. https://bit.ly/4czbiU6
#virtualreality #VR #oculus #virtualescape #homebound #elders #depression #palliative #everyonedies #deathpositive #palliativecare #everydayisagift #oprah #cancer #grief
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03:54 - 7 Ways to Die in Future: The Simulation is Unplugged
05:57 - Recipe of the Week: Honeybun Cake
07:31 - Virtual Reality Takes You Over the Rainbow
21:28 - Over the Rainbow Lyrics
23:09 - OutroSupport the show
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Learn everything from a bot-related way to die in the future to thoughts around having a digital surrogate to a deceased loved one.
09:22 - How are People Going to Die in the Future? (segment 1): Malfunctioning Sexbot11:48 - Recipe of the Week: Alabama Slammer13:17 - Digital Remedy to Grief, Pros and Cons31:48 - Phone Calls to Heaven: A Nurse contemplates life's fragility and preciousness41:14 - Outro
In the book Love Story, love meant never having to say youâre sorry. Now, in the age of griefbots, death mean you never have to say goodbye. Griefbots are the creation of digital characters that imitate the way people who have died spoke and wrote. While these bots and AI avatars may be beneficial to the grieving process, thereâs also a risk that they could keep us clinging to the past, spending our time with the deceased rather than the living, and find ourselves unable to move forward and grow.
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Ever heard of cyberthanatology? Learn how technology has reshaped end of life planning and how to save your family from digital woes when you die. Our guest Niki Weiss returns to share her knowledge to get you started.
03:47 - Ancient Greek Funeral Traditions06:31 - Recipe of the Week: Koliva07:58 - Digital Afterlife Services12:01 - My Final Playbook - Guest Niki Weiss46:56 - Outro
What are Digital Afterlife Services?
Digital technologies are reshaping the interactions between the living and the dead. As a result, a new concept is evolving called âdigital afterlife servicesâ and these services assist people in organizing their digital property and determining what happens to it after death.
This week we interviewed Niki Weiss who is a digital tech thought leader and founder of My Final Playbook Systems. Learn some of the things to think about in your estate planning.
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Learn what you need to know to appoint access to a "digital heir" and things to think about to ensure your digital life is in good hands after you die.
04:46 - A Man Named Ove07:29 - Recipe of the Week: Tornado Potatoes08:22 - Digital Assets When We Die: Our Phones (Interview with Niki Weiss)39:19 - Outro
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Colorectal cancer is usually considered a disease of older adults, but now nearly one-third of rectal cancer diagnosis are younger than age 55 with the biggest increase in diagnoses being seen in people ages 20-29. Colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men younger than 50, and it ranks second only to breast cancer in women younger than 50.
This week we talk about what has changed that may account for this trend, what symptoms to pay attention to, and how to advocate for yourself to get a timely diagnosis.
01:41 - Recipe of the Week: Macaroni and Corn Casserole03:59 - Arlington Cemetery: Preserving the Mementos Left at the Graveside09:17 - Colorectal Cancer and the Rise of Early-Onset Disease44:07 - Navigating a Strained Relationship at a Relative's End of Life55:35 - Outro
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"Gaslighting" has been ubiquitous in common language recently, but it is often misused from its original meaning. True gaslighting is a form of a emotional abuse...what do you within one of these relationships? Listen to learn about the origins and uses, how gaslighting is encountered in the medical community, red flags to identify gaslighting, and how to cope with gaslighting in a relationship or work environment. https://bit.ly/4d1aUhJ
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06:18 â Surviving the Storm â Eagles, Grief and Survival09:12 â Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, and Recipe of the Week12:03 â What Does Gaslighting Really Mean, and What to Do About It?33:38 â Poetry by Jessica Jocelyn â a Characterization of GriefSupport the show
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What is the relationship between hearing loss - the third leading cause of chronic disability in older adults - and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia? We dig into the research in this episode: https://bit.ly/4eUuQ7N
Age-related hearing loss â which is the third leading cause of chronic disability in older adults â has been shown to be associated with increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. Hearing loss also causes worse health care professionalâpatient communication, more frequent hospitalization, more social isolation, functional declines, and falls. Hearing loss can be well-managed with hearing aids, yet most people refuse to wear them.
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05:46 â Heart Healthy is also Brain Healthy13:57 â Recipe of the Week: Classic Spinach Quiche15:44 â What Does Research Say About Hearing Loss and Dementia, and Can Hearing Aids Slow it?38:51 â Donât Wear Your Hearing Aids? Youâre Not Alone48:59 â OutroWhat are the parts of my auditory system?
Your auditory system (hearing system) consists of many different parts, including your: Outer ear, Middle ear, inner ear, and auditory nervous system. Successful hearing requires all these parts to function properly.In this episode we talk about the importance of hearing and the relationship of hearing loss to dementia. Refer to the above image when Marianne describes the anatomy of the ear.
What Do I Need to Know About Hearing Loss?
About 38 percent of adults between the ages of 65 and 75 have age-related hearing lossâand this climbs to 54 percent in the years after that. Donât wait to see an audiologist for an exam and treatment.Is Hearing Loss Permanent?
The most common type of hearing loss is sensorineural (permanent), but there are a few causes of hearing loss that can be curor surgery. See an audiologist for a diagnosis and treatment plan.What foods will help me keep my hearing?
Fish, Citrus Fruits, Dark Green Veggies, Eggs, cantaloupes, bananas, dark chocolate, garlic, whole grains, milkWhat Do I Need to Know About Hearing aids?
Hearing aids are not covered by Medicare or Medicaid, so you will have to pay for them if those are your only insurance. Despite price, they all work in the same way. If you go through an audiologist, they will usually bundle their services for one price (cost of hearing aid, fitting appointments, training on how to use, follow-up visits and repair. Big-box stores also sell these devices, so it makes sense to shop around.#hearingloss #hearingaids #dementia #cognitiveimpairment #socialisolation #audiology #canyouhearmenow #elders #aging
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Learn how future causes of death may be different for our children and grandchildren
Death causes have changed drastically since the 1800âs; how will they change 50 to 100 years from now? Listen to learn the most likely causes of death in the future and why.In This Episode:
02:57 â Recipe of the Week: Exploring alternative protein sources and cricket flour pancakes06:59 â What leading causes of death may look like in the future30:40 â Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun (Episode 75)36:52 â Outro
In the first segment Charlie explores a new source of protein and has our recipe of the week. In the 2nd segment Marianne talks about how future causes of death may be different for our children and grandchildren; and in our third segment Charlie takes us to the Twilight Zone.Support the show
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