Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is journalist, Peter Bowes, who is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Peter is also the host and creator of a podcast series called Live Long and Master Aging. For the past eight years, he has interviewed top scientists who are working in the field of aging. What he has learned about breakthroughs in healthy aging is both exciting and, oddly, nothing new. While there are some fascinating breakthroughs on the horizon around healthy aging, there are some basics about staying healthy that haven’t changed at all.

One of our subscribers, Fred Woolman, is featured this week on POV. Fred lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He’s 82 years old and a full-time fitness instructor. He’s also a passionate American who is deeply angered and disturbed by the words and actions of his President. This is Fred’s Point Of View.

There is plenty of discussion these days around AI and its new sibling, AGI – short for artificial general intelligence. Some are concerned about the so far unchecked power of AI while others are touting AI’s abilities to do far more than humans can do, do it far better and far faster. Here’s an example. AI could soon replace your family doctor and maybe your specialists as well. And this will have enormous impacts on all of us, especially older adults.

We touched on this in a recent Art 2 Aging newsletter and this week, our guest, UX designer Ezra Schwartz, goes into greater detail, outlining what the future could hold.

Veteran marketing executive, Dave McCaughan, returns this week on POV with his thoughts on why we want to continue working beyond 65 and even beyond 70. He explains the reasons for it and offers up evidence contained in several global surveys to back up his views.

A 6 minute listen.

All around the world today, there are more and more signs of people taking matters into their own hands and no longer waiting for governments to step in – matters like community health, outreach for the homeless, local help for those older adults who are – not aging at home but living at home, as our guest puts it.

Debbie Howard was a fulltime caregiver for her mother and that inspired her to create Aging Matters International and write two books on aging. One is for those who are caregivers and the other one is for employers to understand what 30% of their employees go through as caregivers at home. She is also pivotal in establishing support groups in her community that offer assistance for older adults in their own homes - something that could easily be the model for the near and medium term future for caregiving.

This week on POV: How To Create An Anti-Bucket List.

Wait, what??

Janine Vanderburg, founder of Changing the Narrative and the Encore Roadmap, suggests that, in addition to what we would love to do in life, we should also create a list of what we don’t want to do again.

If we have a finite lifespan, why not fill it with what we want and leave out what we don’t!

This is a 5-minute listen.

We’re going to continue the financial planning for retirement theme that we started last week in our interview with Darren Coleman from Portage Cross Border Wealth Management.

When we talk about retirement, we’re really speaking about a period of time in someone’s life that could span 30 or more years.

This week, our guest is Susan Latremoile who, along with her partner, Marianne Oehser, runs Next Chapter Lifestyle Advisors.

Susan was a financial advisor herself for nearly 40 years. Now, she helps other advisors to understand that just managing a client’s money in retirement is not nearly enough anymore. And if an advisor chooses to ignore this, he or she does so at their own peril.

In our first episode of POV from The Art 2 Aging, marketer, advertiser and self-confessed storyteller, Dave McCaughan tackles longevity, specifically the idea of trying to live to 100. He argues that it’s time to think about trying to become a centenarian in a more balanced way.

Retirement gets a lot of attention these days and with good reason. Baby boomers have been starting the third chapter of life for the past 15 years or so and the so-called Gen Xers are following suit right now.

Our guest this week is Darren Coleman, he’s been a financial advisor for more than 30 years, runnning Portage Cross Border Wealth Management and he hosts the Two Way Traffic podcast. Darren is going to uncover ideas about retirement that few people stop to consider. And those ideas have very little to do with financial planning.

From life in a Japanese internment camp to a ten-year career in the NBA and now living as a poet and fiction writer at 87, Tom Meschery has had a remarkable life. We profiled Tom on The Art 2 Aging last June in an episode, titled “Overcoming The Odds”. But now, Tom has written his autobiography so we caught up with him once again at his home in Sacramento to find out more.