ProAging Podcast

A discussion with Dr. Kogan, a leader in the newly- established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is an Associate Professor and serves as Associate Director of The George Washington University Geriatrics Fellowship program. Dr. Kogan is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on topics ranging from Integrative Medicine and Geriatrics to healthy aging, neurodegenerative diseases and the use of medical cannabis. Mikhail Kogan, MD,  https://drmishakogan.com/ View discussion, chat and question at https://www.retirementlivingsourcebook.com/videos/the-future-of-medicine-for-older-adults

A live and interactive discussion with some of the leadership team of the Aging Life Care Association®.Mid-Atlantic Chapter. Learn how these professionals provide a holistic, client-centered approach to caring for older adults or others facing ongoing health challenges Aging Life Care Association® Mission Promoting and leading the community of Aging Life Care Professionals® through our unique knowledge base, continuing education, professional development, and the highest ethical practices.

Learn about a groundbreaking program that uses the elements and structure of ritual to ease people through through transitions which occur in the second half of life! Marsha Weiner, MA Co-Author Transitional Keys A Guidebook: Rituals to Improve the Quality of Life for Older Adults Marsha@TransitionalKeys.org Thanks to Maryland Relay for their support this month Jenny Pearson | Hamilton Relay | Maryland Relay Captioned Telephone Outreach Coordinator O: 410.767.0969 | C: 443-280-4535 | Jenny.Pearson@HamiltonRelay.com www.mdrelay.org Questions Asked The automobile and the home are the two primary pillars of independence in our society. Many times, individuals have to give up both of these simultaneously. Very difficult and a potential threat to one's identity. Your auto insurance company may have testing sites that can evaluate one's driving competency and make suggestions of aids and technologies that can compensate for some sensory loss.

There are over 70 million grandparents in the US , and each month 75,000 more join the club! Join us to discuss why grandparents and grandchildren need each other now more than ever! Kerry Byrne, PhD, Founder The Long Distance Grandparent kerry@thelongdistancegrandparent.com Donne Davis, Founder GaGa Sisterhood donnedavis@gagasisterhood.com Questions Asked How do we measure parents well-being? my daughter and her husband, have 3 little ones, 3, 2, and 6 months. our son-in-law has shut down since the youngest was born and won’t communicate with us. Our daughter does but I feel she is carrying a heavy load. My husband is not yet welcome to visit them and hasn’t met the youngest.  this is a long-distance family. the youngest child is 6 months. How do you help grandparents at a distance understand  LGBTQIA+ issues in their grandkids? What resources do you recommend about non-binary and trans grandkids? And then when there is dementia and grandparents can't remember pronouns? Teenagers for LGBTQIA+ question Would like to know what impact the spike in housing costs has had on families.   Have young parents and their kids been forced to FLEE high costs markets or made the decision to return to hometown to be closer to grandparents?  For years, the housing community has been talked about Generation Priced Out — have new intergenerational households reversed that trend during the pandemic?

Get an insiders perspective on life in the Emergency Room and how we can plan, prepare, and adapt for ourselves, our loved ones and our clients Learn how to make a plan for their care in advance, so you can act instead of react. Know you made the best choices you could in the situations you were given. Gain control over the decisions you must make that will affect their life and yours. View full recording with chat transcript and more at https://www.retirementlivingsourcebook.com/videos/discussion-with-emergency-room-physician-brittany-a-lamb-md

Growing older is complex and filled with uncertainties. But growing older alone requires thinking critically about the ever-evolving challenges. Join us for a live and interactive discussion that explores a whole-person approach for living well beyond 65. Co-Hosted by Carol Marak, Author of Solo and Smart: The Roadmap for a Supportive and Secure Future

Tracy Cram Perkins is a dementia caregiving survivor with over 12 years of caregiving experience, who is currently caring for her fourth family member. It is her mission to supply caregivers with proven shortcuts to reduce the stresses of dementia care. Tracy Cram Perkins teaches hands-on solutions for reducing repetitive questions, melt downs, and wandering using simple fixes found at the hardware store. Email: tracy@tracycramperkins.com Website: tracycramperkins.com Watch video and chat transcript 

Interactive discussion with Matt Paxton host of Hoarders and the new PBS Series "Legacy List with Matt Paxton".   Matt will share stories, tips and insights to help you, your loved ones and your clients approach downsizing from a new perspective. One of the top hoarding experts in the country and a featured cleaner on the hit television show HOARDERS. Matt is the host of the new downsizing show Legacy List with Matt Paxton that will air on Public Television starting in 2020. Paxton started cleaning out houses after his father, step-father and both grandfathers died in the same year and are the reason Matt has been working with families struggling with hoarding and downsizing for almost 20 years. Matt appears regularly as a public speaker, television guest and radio personality helping families find the upside of downsizing. He lives in Virginia with his family.

A discussion that takes a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging Steven Petrow is an award-winning journalist and book author who is best known for his Washington Post and New York Times essays on aging, health, and civility. This special event is brought to you by Montcordia with support from the Positive Aging Community Questions/Comments Answered in the Discussion As I understand it, Hollywood has discovered the beaut;y of silver/gray/white hair.  I'm jealous. I am over 80, it doesn't look like I will ever get it. You've mentioned that we older adults tend to participate in "organ recitals".  Can you speak to the downside of such discussions and how to diffuse them? This book is a great resource for talks with our adult kids.  Have the conversations with them now, so we can clearly articulate what we want.  Saying things out loud, or even write them down into a contract! there is a publication called "five wishes" that helps tell those you love what you want done as you age and how you want people to remember you How can I invite Steven to speak to a future Zoom meeting with the group I lead in Arlington, TX (Ambassadors For Aging Well). 500+ members... "Does Steven know anything about use of video for end of life issue planning and decision making bob Hoffman" Steve, what is your next book? Research?  Joys of aging well? Thank you, Steve for sharing that you are in the midst of writing a new book.  In the meantime, love your articles.

Joy Loverde has a reputation for being a path carver and visionary. Joy is the author of the "Who Will Take Care Of Me When I’m Old?" and "The Complete Eldercare Planner." The American Medical Association says, “It’s the best book we’ve seen.”

Wondering where to live in your later years? A discussion with the author of a strategic and thoughtful guide aimed at anyone looking to determine the best place to call home during the second half of life.  Ryan Frederick CEO of SmartLiving 360 and Author of Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life  This event is co-hosted and produced in partnership with JK Moving Services

A live & interactive discussion with Dan Prescher Senior Editor of International Living and the Author of Retiring Overseas on a Budget a foremost authority on worldwide living options. Learn about different destinations, costs, protocols and healthcare considerations.   Co-hosted by Toni Reinhart, a recent retiree who is living with her husband in Spain.   Since 1979, International Living has highlighted overseas retirement destinations in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, countries where you can enjoy a whole host of benefits, including low cost but very high quality and caring healthcare, good value real estate, a very low cost of living,

A live & interactive discussion with the founder of the largest search tool of prices and locations of funeral homes and cremation providers in the nation! Learn about FEMA financial assistance program for COVID-19 related funeral expenses incurred as part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 Ed Michael Reggie, CEO of Funeralocity Questions Asked: Body Composting, can you talk about the new funeral concept for composting the persons body and remains Person dies outside a hospital.  Person is an organ donor (e.g., eyes, kidneys).  Can you discuss the normal process from death to cremation? Donating our body to science after death? Without use of Funeral Home, Family can take care of their own dead and care for the body and bury, the book is Caring for our own dead, home funerals, can you talk about this? Not against law in some states not to use a funeral home or even bury body in the back yard or on family land book gives step by step guide how to get death certificate family can do this if they choose If you decide to have a home funeral do you legally need a funeral hime for anything Cremains frequently come from the funeral home in a plastic bag inside a black plastic box.  Do most families deposit the black plastic box in the ground (no vault), or do they remove the plastic bag from the black box, pierce the plastic, and cover the plastic bag with earth? Will FEMA reimburse families who have already buried their loved ones who have died from covid? up to total of three people three funeral costsmay be reembursed possible thirty thousand dollars possible or more when phone lines opened first days of program more than one million people called and phone lines shut down FEMA call center hired many more people An attorney read and looked at read specific details of the funeral reembursement program and attorney interpreted and  said the FEMA funeral program will reemburse for COVID related deaths even if the life insurance policy paid for the funeral. Can you comment on this are you familiar with this part of the reembursement program? Could you explain that 1984 Funeral Law again, thank you so much Not funeral prepaid for but paid for by the life insurance policy

Nationally 11 percent of adults—approximately 25.6 million people—were victims of scams. Join us for a discussion with Melissa Smarr with Silver Shield the Anti-Scam Campaign and Stephen Izaguirre with the Virginia Attorney Generals office for a live and interactive discussion on common scams, solutions and resources.

Live & Interactive Discussion with members of The International End of Life Doula Association End-of-Life Doulas are non-medical companions to the dying and their families. Doulas do not take the place of hospice personnel; rather, they complement other services that a dying person and their family may be receiving, including hospice or palliative care. Panel of Instructors: The International End of Life Doula Association Julia Andino Kris Kington-Barker Marady Duran Valoria Walker

A live & interactive discussion that will dive into legal planning, challenges, and solutions for current and future solo agers! Co-hosted by Carol Marak, Author of Solo and Smart  Featuring: JOSHUA D. WINGER, Attorney Byrd & Byrd, Attorneys at Law Questions answered in the discussion: As a solo ager with no people to whom I want/need to leave money, but also no one to take care of me, the challenge is how to plan the spend down of my wealth.  Ideally I would spend the last penny as I jump in my grave.  Annuities have, in my view, lots of complications and restrictions and other problems. Banks:  What if you have $1 million but it is in real estate?  Do banks require $1 million in liquid assets? Steve, Please tell us the expeted duration of this Webinar. If you have more than one back up successor, how do they make decisions if they disagree? Please address options for those of us with no savings, assets (other than house with mortgage for 80% of house) or retirement beyond Social Security... I have a health care agent plus a backup.  If I add more, with sequencing, do I have to redo the document and must it be notarized? So on safe desposit box you can name someone who can have access only if you die or are declared incompetent? I have been told most banks will not accept my general power of attorney, but require their own forms.  True? Revocaable Trust, does a general statement that " I hereby put all of my property in my trust," does this title the property to the trust?Thank you so much If you have already added your children to a bank account to handle things in an emergency situation should I try to undo that? This is much more of a problem as we have shifted from defined benefit to defined cost pension plans. Thank you! What about a pour over willl to the trust? What time is Medicaid Monday at Byrd and Byrd?

Learn “what to do if you have to go to a hospital, how to handle an insurance company’s claim denial, how to find an alternative to high-priced prescriptions and why the current pay-for-fee system is inadequate.  Dr. David Wilcox Author of How To Avoid Being a Victim of the American Healthcare System: A Patient's Handbook for Survival https://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Victim-American-Healthcare-System-ebook/dp/B097YVVD5P

Starting on October 15th, current Medicare beneficiaries can make changes for the 2022 plan year. Learn about changes in Medicare, how to review your options, and how to have a successful annual review. This is a live interactive event so you can get the answers to all your Medicare questions. Featuring John Norce, Founder of the Medicare Portal

The George Washington (GW) Center for Aging, Health and Humanities has been named a recipient of a 2021 AARP Community Challenge grant to establish an Age-Friendly Regional Network for the DMV! Join us for a live & interactive discussion about this exciting initiative!! Meet the Leadership of these Age-Friendly Communities! Alexandria Arlington District of Columbia (DC) Hyattsville Montgomery County And their Age-Friendly Academic Partners George Washington University (GW) Center for Aging, Health and Humanities GW Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service Georgetown University Aging & Health Program

A thought-provoking discussion that will explore working through expectations, how to set caregiver boundaries, the need to structure hard conversations with mom and dad, and how to pull together a support network for caregiver self-care. About Debra Hallisey In 2015 life changed for Debra Hallisey. She became responsible for her disabled mother after her father’s death. As she took on the roles of financial adviser, caregiver, social director—as well as her continuing role as daughter—she found herself asking “what do I do?” and “where do I start?” She brought her 25 years of experience as a consultant building and enhancing corporate training programs for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and Canada to the problem and, in the process, learned how many other people are in a similar situation caring for a parent, a sibling, a spouse, or significant other. She has used the knowledge she has gained to develop AdvocateforMomandDad.com. The site offers practical advice for caregivers and lessons learned from others on how they handle challenges on issues such as legal, financial, insurance, and caregiving. A caregiver knowledge expert and an advocate for older adults and their families, Debra is a Certified Caregiving Consultant™ and Certified Dementia Practitioner®. She holds an M.A. in Leadership and Supervision and is currently taking additional training to become certified as a Certified Caregiving Educator (CCE) and a Certified Caregiving Facilitator (CCF).