When I'm 64

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When I'm 64 Podcast

How do we take care of each other during a pandemic? A health care crisis? When we’re 24 or 64? Join us as we hear from caregivers and experts as we tackle the challenges of looking after the people we love.

  1. 18/01/2022

    Introducing Century Lives

    Do rules created when most people lived only to 50 or 60 still make sense when more and more people live to 100? Longer lives are, at once, among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history and one of the great challenges of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well?Century Lives, the new podcast from the Stanford Center on Longevity, is here to start the conversation. In our first season we explore the “New Map of L...

    38 min

  2. 05/08/2021

    Episode 18: The Documentary "Duty Free"

    Today on “When I’m 64” we talk to Sian-Pierre Regis the director and producer of the movie DUTY FREE, and his mother Rebecca. We hear how Sian-Pierre decided to film a documentary that follows his 75 year-old mother who, after being fired from her hotel housekeeping job, goes on a bucket list adventure to reclaim her life.

    21 min

  3. 15/07/2021

    Episode 17: Communities of Color

    We often talk about family and paid caregivers as two distinct categories, but in reality these groups overlap...a lot. Especially in communities of color. On this episode we hear from a home health aide and family caregiver, Zulma Torres, about the difficulties she faces. And we hear an excerpt from a Longevity Project Virtual Event where Jean Accius of AARP, Karyne Jones of NCBA and Kezia Scales of PHI discuss the barriers people of color face with health care and caregiving, and what steps...

    30 min

  4. 24/06/2021

    Episode 16: Caregiving While Male

    Who says men don’t care? Host Ken Stern talks to caregiver Rey Castuciano, author Dr. James Gambone, and Marc Heyison, founder of the nonprofit “Men Supporting Women with Cancer.” They join Ken to discuss the special challenges and sometimes negative stereotypes that men face – providing care to loved ones.

    22 min

  5. 03/06/2021

    Episode 15: Biden’s New Care Plan

    There’s a new president in office, and with him comes a new infrastructure plan, including a plan to improve care infrastructure. But what does the proposed plan entail, and can Washington come together on making it a reality? We got three perspectives. Aisha Adkins is a caregiver and constituency organizer at Caring Across Generations. David Dayen is the Executive Editor of an independent political magazine, The American Prospect. And Terry Fulmer is the President of the John A Hartford Foun...

    27 min

  6. 13/05/2021

    Episode 14: MSNBC host Richard Lui and his documentary "Sky Blossom"

    There are 5.4 million young caregivers in America who are stepping forward as frontline heroes. Today we meet five of them who appear in the new documentary film “Sky Blossom, Diaries of the Next Greatest Generation” directed by MSNBC and NBC news anchor Richard Lui. We talk to Lui about directing the film, and about what’s he’s learned from his own journey taking care of his father with Alzheimer’s disease.

    26 min

  7. 22/04/2021

    Episode 13: LGBT Community

    What would you do if doctors said you weren’t allowed in your partner’s hospital room, or if you saw your loved one being discriminated against and denied care? Today, we talk to Christopher MacLellan about the hurdles he had to jump through as a caregiver to his late partner Richard Schiffer. And we talk with Amy Whelan, Senior Staff Attorney at NCLR, and Joey Costello, Assistant Director of Care Management at SAGE, about how the caregiving journey of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (...

    28 min

  8. 01/04/2021

    Episode 12: Caregiving in the Time of Covid - One Year In

    What have we learned about taking care of our loved ones during one of the worst health crises of our time? Today we talk to three caregivers who share how they’ve coped with a wide array of challenges. Then we talk to two leaders in the field to discover what they’ve learned: Grace Whiting the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, and Jennifer Olson, the Executive Director of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

    31 min
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How do we take care of each other during a pandemic? A health care crisis? When we’re 24 or 64? Join us as we hear from caregivers and experts as we tackle the challenges of looking after the people we love.

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  • Creator
    Hosted by Ken Stern
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2022 When I'm 64
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