Author Jeanne Safer has written seven books, including Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult’s Life—for the Better. On processing the death of one’s parents in later life, she said, “You really want to see who they are independent of you because that gives you a three dimensional view of them which in a certain sense we can only have when we are not looking directly in their eyes anymore.” In short, she says, we continue our relationship with our parents even after they are

In his last months, JoAnn Shuch's father shared with her aspects of his life that he had never shared with anyone before. She served as his last witness. Join us as we continue our exploration on losing a parent in later life.

"There's a whole psychic readjustment to being on this earth without that parent being alive," Alexandra Kennedy, author of Losing a Parent - Passage to a New Way of Living . "Grief has its own wisdom and it'll take us where we need to go to heal." Kennedy talks to Chronologically Gifted about how losing a parent later in life is different than losing a parent in your 20s or 30s.

Considering post-Brexit statements like "Older white people, please die!" and the political volatility of American healthcare, Chronologically Gifted talks to Ashton Applewhite, the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism about age in today's sociopolitical climate.