15 episodes
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- Health & Fitness
The Johns Hopkins Fighting Frailty Podcast series explores exciting areas of aging-related research, with a focus on vulnerability and frailty, with experts from Johns Hopkins and beyond. Hosted by Ramana Kolady, a high school senior volunteering with the Frailty Science leadership team at Johns Hopkins, each episode focuses on an important issue that people face as they age and offers insights on how we can support the well-being of older adults in our community.
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Episode 15: Technology/AI, Frailty, and the Health of Older Adults, with Dr. Peter Abadir
For the fifteenth episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Peter Abadir about technologies, including artificial intelligence, frailty, and the potenital to support the health and well being of older adults, especially the most frail and vulnerable, through technological advances. The Fighting Frailty Podcast is developed and sponsored by FrailtyScience.org / NIH Grant# P30AG021334.
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Episode 14: Older Adults Living with HIV, and the Role of Frailty, with Dr. Todd Brown
For the fourteenth episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Todd Brown about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in older adults and the associations of aging, frailty, and comorbidities among older adults living with HIV. The Fighting Frailty Podcast is developed and sponsored by FrailtyScience.org / NIH Grant# P30AG021334.
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Episode 13: Olfactory Function and Frailty, with Dr. Nicholas Rowan
For the thirteenth episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Nicholas Rowan about the importance of olfactory function -- the sense of smell -- and its associations with aging and frailty. The Fighting Frailty Podcast is developed and sponsored by FrailtyScience.org / NIH Grant# P30AG021334.
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Episode 12: Older Adults and the Emergency Department, with Dr. Phillip Magidson
For the twelfth episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Phil Magidson about older adults and the emergency department (ED), including the role that frailty and cognitive impairment may play during ED visits, and strategies to promote better outcomes following ED visits. The Fighting Frailty Podcast is developed and sponsored by FrailtyScience.org / NIH Grant# P30AG021334.
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Episode 11: Tellegacy - An Intergenerational Program for Social Connection, with Dr. Jeremy Holloway
For the eleventh episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Jeremy Holloway about social determinants of health and his program, Tellegacy.
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Episode 10: Frailty and Diabetes in Older Adults, with Dr. Rita R. Kalyani
For the tenth episode of the Fighting Frailty Podcast, our host Ramana Kolady speaks with Dr. Rita R. Kalyani about diabetes in older adults and associations between diabetes, frailty and functional status, and geriatric symptoms. Dr. Kalyani also shares her insights on sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss), and future opportunities to improve the health and care of older persons living with diabetes and frailty. The Fighting Frailty Podcast is developed and sponsored by FrailtyScience.org.