Silver Threads

By WXXI Reachout Radio

Silver Threads is a weekly program of information on how you can make your senior years shine. Topics have included grandparenting; long term care options; leisure activities and travel; Medicaid and ... more

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How many episodes does Silver Threads have?

The podcast currently has 257 episodes available.

Silver Threads episodes:

June 05, 2017 Silver Threads #1724: Dangers of “OverAge” Drinking and Drugging, 06/06/17
Articles from Next Avenue explore the growing problem of alcohol and drug misuse and abuse in the over 60 population.
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29min
May 29, 2017 Silver Threads #1723: Aging and Your Senses, 05/30/17
Articles from WXXI and University of Southern California report on the ways aging affects our senses of smell and taste and changes that occur to skin and hair.
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28min
May 22, 2017 Silver Threads #1722: An Anti-Aging Diet, Really?, 05/23/17
: Nutrition Acton Newsletter provides information on studies on benefits of calorie restricted diets and offers their take on memory-enhancing and anti-aging supplements.
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28min
May 15, 2017 Silver Threads #1721: Remembering Moms, Little League and 1967, 05/15/17
Reminisce magazine honors moms, spotlights events of 1967 and brings back memories of Little League Baseball.
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29min
May 01, 2017 Silver Threads #1719: Self-driving Cars – Boon for the Aged & Disabled, 05/02/17
Articles relay attitudes about autonomous and semi-autonomous cars, the advances being made in their technology and the need for them in the lives of elders and the disabled.
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29min
April 24, 2017 Silver Threads #1718: 55+ Discounts, Divorce and Dementia, 04/25/17
A potpourri of articles from the March April 55+ magazine include topics on senior discounts, gray divorce, dementia, small town and machine knitting. Tags:
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29min
April 17, 2017 Silver Threads # 1717: Seniors Celebrate Earth Day, 04/18/17
Articles from the Earth Day Network describe the history of Earth Day and their Billion Acts of Green project. Others relate how some seniors have undertaken to make every day an earth day.
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28min
April 10, 2017 Silver Threads # 1716: Senior Runners, 4/11/17
Articles from several sources focus on seniors as old as 101 who run competitively as well as simply for exercise or social interaction.
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29min
April 03, 2017 Silver Threads #1715: Never Too Old to Be Published, 04/04/17
Two Rochester area women have had their goal of being published writers come to fruition at late in life, one at 73 and the other at 81.
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28min
March 27, 2017 Silver Threads #1714: When You Love Someone with Dementia, 3/28/17 and 4/1/17
Author Louise Penny shares her journey with her husband’s dementia, as does novelist Jenny McPhee, in the story of her mother’s decline. Also articles on getting help as a caregiver.
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29min

FAQs about Silver Threads:

How many episodes does Silver Threads have?

The podcast currently has 257 episodes available.