Agewyz Podcast Archives
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Episode 173 – Aisha Adkins on Millennial Caregiving
Did you know that Millennial caregivers make up nearly a quarter of America's 44 million family caregivers? One of them is Atlanta writer and dementia care advocate Aisha Adkins. An only child and African American who grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood...
Episode 172: Photographer Robert Duron on “stages: 100 Over 100”
Did you know that in the United States there are over 80,000 centenarians? Those are Americans who have made it to age 100 and beyond. They were born at a time when the life expectancy was just 53-1/2 for men and 56 for women. Today, life expectancy is 76 for men and...
Episode 171 – A Grief That Has No End: Dr. Pauline Boss on Ambiguous Loss
Pioneering educator and researcher Dr. Pauline Boss coined the term "ambiguous loss" to describe a form of grief that is common in caregivers of family members with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. It's marked by a never-ending grief for the person with...
Episode 170 – Military Caregiver Jill Armijo
We celebrate this Memorial Day with the story of a military caregiver whose husband returned from active duty alive but mentally wounded. Jill Armijo’s husband, Joe, served in the Navy as a machinist and was deployed to a ship in the Persian Gulf just before...
CareGiving.com Founder Denise M. Brown
Chicago native Denise M. Brown founded CareGiving.com at a time when Google, Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia didn't even exist. Everyone told Denise she was wasting her time. No one would be interested in a website like CareGiving.com. She launched the site anyway...
Episode 169 – Choosing Joy: How One Couple Reframed Alzheimer’s
A few months after their 50th wedding anniversary, Helene Berger's husband Ady was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. When the doctor gave him the news, Ady replied, "I don't want to live anymore." From that moment on, Helene vowed to find creative ways to make...