Can making good choices extend our healthy life and shorten the dying process at the end? Is it a requirement to get sick as we get old? Can we reduce the risk and delay the onset of age-related diseases? While aging is inevitable, can we have...
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. In this...
How 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...
We take a look at the historical impact of vaccinations in the trajectory life-limiting infectious diseases. We continue our series about deaths you don’t have to die from by talking about immunizations. There are behaviors that we have that can rob...
This week’s 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...
Did you know that people with higher education tend to live longer than those with least education? The death gap related to education is not necessarily between college grads and non-grads, but primarily between high school dropouts and graduates...