Aging In Full Bloom

Ed Brazee, Jill Spencer, and Chris Toy from Boomer Tech Adventures are back as my guests on this episode.

BoomerTECH Adventures is all about serving boomers and seniors who want to feel competent and confident in their online skills while using their personal technology devices.

Spamming is kind of a benign form of scamming. It's not necessarily evil, but it certainly does take resources and time. Be sure to keep your personal information offline because that's how the spammers find you. Plus, if you have a digital assistant like Siri or Amazon's system, Alexa or Google, they are always listening. That can actually result in ads that will kind of target you.

Be careful if you receive an email that may like it's from a known source or an unknown source. If it has a link in the email and it asks you to click on that link from inside the email, you want to avoid that. What's happening is that the hacker or scammer is directing you to go to a place that they have designated.

Similar to that is, more and more, you'll see your social media someone who you know, you're friends with, and you get a message from this friend asking you to be their friend, but you're already their friend. Don't do anything with that request.

A recent survey showed that 19% of people between 50 and 64 have explored online dating,

And a lot of people are looking for companionship. They're recent widows, widowers, or divorced and would really like to have someone in their life. But beware. These scammers are charming, they're persistent, persuasive, and they play on your emotions, especially guilt. If there's any request for money, end the conversation right there.

The Amazon brushing scam. Brushing is a scam in which third-party Amazon vendors send people products they never actually bought. While this may seem an odd scam at first, it is all to do with exploiting Amazon's search ranking system. This then pushes their items up their search rankings and encourages more genuine purchases.

When it's all said and done, trust your intuition, trust your hunch. If it doesn't feel right, don't go there, don't do it.

Find out more about BoomerTECH Adventures on their website - https://www.boomertechadventures.com/

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Ed Brazee, Jill Spencer, and Chris Toy from Boomer Tech Adventures are my guests on this episode.

BoomerTECH Adventures is all about serving boomers and seniors who want to feel competent and confident in their online skills while using their personal technology devices.

Here are the five tech issues that drive Boomers crazy that we cover in this episode.

1) Keeping passwords straight and the importance of knowing how to organize passwords. And remember that there's a difference between passwords and passcodes.

2) Once you get online, one of the things that everyone, especially seniors, should be concerned with is being safe, secure of aware online.

3) Accessibility features on our devices. A lot of people don't even know that these exist.

4) Becoming more self-reliant in terms of knowing how to ask the right questions about their devices or their technology.

5) How to use tech for fun.

Find out more about BoomerTECH Adventures on their website - https://www.boomertechadventures.com/

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Why does a 24-year old purchase a 200+-year-old local newspaper business?

My guest is Bonnie Rutledge. She was born and raised in Harrison County, took a summer internship at the Harrison News-Herald newspaper as she worked through college. Over a three-year period, she learned the newspaper business which helped her step into the role of ownership.

In this interview, I talk to her about how she is looking to refresh the content of this weekly newspaper, the look, and online reach, as well as supporting the community and Harrison County in every way possible.

https://www.harrisonnewsherald.com/home/

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My guest is author Andrew Robin, and we find out more on how to build a great life after your several-decade-long career.

His book is an easy, step-by-step guide.

https://www.amazon.com/TAPAS-LIFE-Rewarding-After-Career/dp/1736333909

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My guest is Patti Davis, the daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.

When Patti's father announced his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in an address to the American public in 1994, the world had not yet begun speaking about this cruel, mysterious disease.

Empowered by all she learned from caring for her father―about the nature of the illness, but also about the loss of a parent―Davis founded a support group for the family members and friends of Alzheimer’s patients. Along with a medically trained co-facilitator, she met with hundreds of exhausted and devastated attendees to talk through their pain and confusion.

Her book, Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers can See Beyond Alzheimer's, discusses her experiences to provide her unique experience of battling Alzheimer’s.

https://www.amazon.com/Floating-Deep-End-Caregivers-Alzheimers/dp/1631497987/

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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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