For more than 30 years, the Mount Carmel Street Medicine program has been providing free urgent medical care to central Ohioans who are uninsured or underinsured. The Street Medicine team serves individuals experiencing homelessness, refugees, immigrants, victims of human trafficking, and anyone who has barriers accessing medical care.

My guest is Laura Imbrock, a Mount Carmel Street Medicine caseworker.

The Street Medicine team is comprised of a comprehensive team of healthcare professionals, including a family practice physician, family nurse practitioner, psychiatric nurse practitioner, registered nurses, medical technicians, bilingual caseworkers, and community paramedics who are prepared to provide the most needed care and support.

https://www.mountcarmelhealth.com/about-us/community-benefit/outreach-programs/mobile-medical-coach-and-street-medicine

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The OSU College of Nursing is currently recruiting participants for a research project exploring pain in Alzheimer’s disease.

My guests include my longtime friend Michelle Crum who is a Research Recruitment Specialist at The Ohio State University. Plus, Karen Moss, Ph.D., RN, CNL, and Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University is at the table.

Dr. Todd Monroe is the principal investigator in this very important study.

We really encourage you to participate in this study if you are over 60, and within a 2-hour drive of The Ohio State University. You can reach Michelle at [email protected] or call her at (614) 292-0226.

Here is a link to the article Michelle and I talk about in this episode.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/alzheimers-dementia-pain-memory/617994/

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Most diet books teach you to set short-term weight loss goals. These “solutions” do a better job of lightening your wallet than lightening you.

As a heart surgeon who used to be morbidly obese, Dr. Philip Ovadia has seen firsthand the failures of mainstream diets and medicine. He realized that what helped him lose over 100 pounds was the same solution that could have prevented most of the thousands of open heart surgeries he has performed—metabolic health.

In Stay off My Operating Table, Dr. Ovadia shares the complete metabolic health system to prevent disease and optimize your health, a system that the diet and drug industries don’t want you to know about. Unlike quick-fix, “7-day,” radical diets, Dr. Ovadia’s approach is a sustainable, long-term solution that could work for you.

Whether you’ve suffered from chronic diseases or want to prevent them decades from now, Stay off My Operating Table could help you take back control of your health.

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Award-winning journalist and attorney Ellen Pober Rittberg’s new humorous self-help book, Why Is Grandma Naked? Caring for Your Aging Parent published in early 2021.

An award-winning journalist and published author, her essays and features have appeared in the NY Times, HuffPost, Reader’s Digest, Newsday, and large online platforms.

In this humorous self-help book, Ellen serves as a guide and cheerleader to family members who undertake to care for their elderly parents. Sharing the stresses and satisfactions when caring for her aging mother, Rittberg uses comical chapter headings such as:

• • Be The Alpha Dog
• • Boundaries? Huh? Your Aging Parent Has None
• • Your Parent May Develop Sticky Fingers
• • JEOPARDY! (why elderly parents need their favorite show even when they can't answer any of the questions)

Rittberg shares with readers the life-changing, humbling, and deeply rewarding benefits of caring for elderly parents and knows a good belly laugh is the best stress reliever.

Find her book at https://www.ellenrittberg.com/

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Elder law is an area of legal practice that specializes on issues that affect the aging population. The purpose of elder law planning is to prepare the elderly person for financial freedom and autonomy through proper financial planning and long-term care options.

With me on this episode is my new friend Maggie Kimmel. an attorney with AlerStallings.

As she states...

She loves meeting with clients, hearing their stories, and then helping them craft an estate plan that will work for them and their families exactly the way they want it to.

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My guest is Anne Basting, PhD, who is a leader in transforming aging and eldercare. I have her on this podcast to talk about her Creative Care Imagination Kit.

Based on Dr. Basting’s twenty-five years of research, this “imagination kit” makes it easy for families, friends, and caregivers to make meaningful connections with elders and others dealing with physical, cognitive, or emotional challenges, including memory loss.

The Creative Care Imagination Kit sparks conversation and encourages active listening, allowing all ages to freely share ideas and stories without worrying about getting the details “correct.”

Dr. Basting’s years of research have shown that these practices stimulate the brain and awaken the imagination, adding wonder and awe not only to the daily lives of those with dementia but to all family members, and providing them with a means of connection and communication.

You can find out more about the kit here - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/creative-care-imagination-kit-anne-basting

And her book, Creative Care, here - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/creative-care-anne-basting

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Produced and narrated by veteran NYC radio host and master storyteller Leslie Gold “The Radiochick," A Life's Story shines a light on the lives of special octogenarians, nonagenarians, and centenarians who have done, and are still doing astonishing things.

Many have been participants in important chapters of history. Every episode is an intimate and remarkable profile, concluding with the insight that can only come from those who have seen it all.

Leslie gives us some insight on why she began the podcast and dives into some backstories from a few of her favorite episodes.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-lifes-story/id1565179566

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Aging is Cool was founded by Amy & Damien Temperley in 2017 with a goal to help older adults Stay Strong, Stay Smart and Stay Social.

They do this through a variety of mechanisms including A Mighty Good Time, their go-to-website for activities, custom-built engaging activities for older adults, and training, consulting, and support for residential communities.

In an effort to serve everyone regardless of ability to pay, Aging is Cool has both for-profit and non-profit sides. Through donations and grants, they are able to provide donation-based programs throughout the community.

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My guest is author Eleanor Lerman, and her new book is Watkins Glen. It's the story of Susan, a woman in her sixties, who finds herself taking care of her estranged older brother, Mark, who has Alzheimer's.

They are the children of a father who worked in his brothers' upholstery factory for most of the year but in the summers, escaped with his family to Watkins Glen, where he was the best outlaw drag racer in a town that primarily caters to high-end road racing.

After a life spent in New York City, Susan has moved back to Watkins Glen where she takes her brother to live―temporarily, she thinks.

https://www.amazon.com/Watkins-Glen-Eleanor-Lerman/dp/1952781019

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