Aging Wisely: The Podcast
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA bi-weekly podcast that centers the lives and needs of the aging and disabled communities and brings them and those who advocate for and serve them to the microphone.
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Episodes
Just Keep Swimming
September 09, 2021 12:30 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBIn this, the final English language episode of Season One, we meet Adam Galchus, currently studying for a Master's Degree in Special Education. Prior to commencing these studies, he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Music, with a concentration in Jazz and Commercial Music. He is also the composer of Aging Wisely: The Podcast theme music. Adam was born with a disability. Notwithstanding that, he and his parents found his gifts in the arts, specifically music. From the age of eight, ...
Doing the Work and Navigating Autism
August 26, 2021 12:30 - 58 minutes - 107 MBTheresa Lyons is a Yale trained computational chemist who had her eyes set on a career on the corporate side of the pharmaceutical industry. She started on that journey, but life had other plans after the birth of her daughter. At the age of three she was diagnosed with autism and Dr. Lyons life would be forever altered. Dr. Lyons journey alongside her daughter was difficult but through of all of their hard word, they both came out on the other side of that dark tunnel. Today, Dr. Lyons...
The New (Immigrant) Face of New York's Aging Population
August 12, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 119 MBWhile working at the Center for an Urban Future, Christian Gonzalez-Rivera undertook a research project that sought to really look at the ever present. growing AND aging immigrant population in New York City. The result is a report, "The New Face of New York's Seniors" that is incredibly comprehensive and looks at practically every aspect of what aging in a city means for its resident and the impact that it has on a population that, in many ways, struggled to adapt to a new city, not to m...
"Planting Trees:" Financial Planning for Families with Disabled Children
July 29, 2021 12:30 - 35 minutes - 29 MBEzekiel Zimmerman is a New York based financial advisor and a married father of three children. While in school to obtain his MBA, his only child at the time- his son- was diagnosed with autism. As he went down the, as he referred to it, "internet rabbit hole" he was introduced to financial advising as a career. He decided to use his career to help other families navigating similar difficult waters. During this interview Ezekiel discusses the type of financial planning all families sho...
Neighbors Taking Care of Neighbors: the NORC Aging in Place Model
July 01, 2021 12:30 - 32 minutes - 59.7 MBIn this episode you will meet Anne Foerg, who is a New York City based Geriatric Social Worker and a Program Manager at the NORC at Penn South, which is a naturally occurring retirement community in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. She has been working with older and old people for twenty years, and has worn many different hats when in those roles. Currently, she works with a team of ten, other social workers, nurses and other professionals to provide socialization opportunities to ...
Taking It "Step by Step:" The Journey through Special Education
June 17, 2021 12:30 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBSpecial Education, no matter where you live, can feel like you are running through a gauntlet. Caring for a child with a disability can present with many challenges, and one of them is navigating their education. It may feel isolating, but it doesn't have to be, especially if you are educated on how the system works and what to realistically expect. During this thirty-seven minute interview, Maria McGinley, an attorney practicing in New York City, candidly talks about the good, the bad an...
"Eyes and Ears Everywhere": Elder Abuse is Everyone's Business
June 03, 2021 12:30 - 50 minutes - 115 MBIn this episode, Attorney Deirdre Lok from The Weinberg Center for Elder Justice in New York City, discusses a topic that many of us really don’t want to talk about- elder abuse. The abuse of older people. It sounds unfathomable and cruel, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, it is all too real. Any person, under certain circumstances, can fall prey to elder abuse. It comes in quite a few forms and no two cases ever look the same. The biggest culprit in elder abuse is…isolation. This is common fo...
Theatre is for Everyone: The A.B.L.E. Ensemble
May 20, 2021 14:49 - 1 hour - 112 MBToday you will meet Kathryn “Katie” Yohe, the co-founder and Executive Director of the A.B.L.E Ensemble, a Chicago-based performing arts non-profit that works with teenagers and young adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities, like down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy-among others. Their members range from their mid-teens to their late twenties and early thirties. As Katie said during the interview, once you are accepted into A.B.L.E, you can stay for as long as you like. In ad...
The Privilege of Practicing "Old People" Medicine
April 29, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBIn this interview, veteran Geriatrician Jomarie Zeleznik, M.D. openly and sincerely talks about the practice of geriatric medicine. We talk about what inspired her to pursue geriatric medicine, later to homebound persons, what it takes to pursue a geriatric specialty, and what keeps her in practice. She also does not shy away from difficult topics, from the frustrations with long term managed care, with providing quality care to people in our current health system, the challenges faced...
Living in the Present, Thinking of the Future: This Lawyer's Take on Incapacity
April 15, 2021 12:30 - 11 minutes - 25.8 MBFrom time to time, there will be solo episodes. That just means me talking. No guest. No dialogue. Talking about something that's on my mind or that I think you all need to think about. Today is that first day- for you. As a lawyer, you can probably guess, that I talk to a lot of people. I answer a lot of questions. And one of the most frequent questions I get asked is on the issue of incapacity. It's an issue that affects the world of older and aging people and the disabled communities....
From Big Brother to Disability Services Professional
April 01, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 86.4 MBIn this, the first episode of Season One, you will meet Bryan Connelly. Bryan is a veteran Disability Services Professional, who has dedicated close to twenty years of his professional life to serving adults with disabilities in New York and New Jersey. He has survived and thrived in an industry where turnover is rampant and where the challenges are many, for clients and providers alike. His journey to the profession began close to home, literally, and the lessons he learned way bac...
Aging Wisely: The Podcast Trailer Episode
February 24, 2021 17:02 - 8 minutes - 8.23 MBWelcome to the Trailer episode for "Aging Wisely: The Podcast." which is dedicated to centering the aging and disabled communities, their lives and needs, and educating the public about why all of this should matter to you too. This is an introduction to the host and, more importantly, the who, what and why of the podcast.