Aging Fast and Slow

Wrapping up Season 1, Dr. Lisa Cooper stresses the importance of trust as a key ingredient for the patient-physician relationship, community engagement, and crisis response. Podcast References: Race, Gender, and Partnership in the Patient-Physician Relationship Unmasking and Addressing COVID-19's Toll on Diverse Populations A Game Plan to Help the Most Vulnerable COVID-19 and Health Equity – A New Kind of “Herd Immunity” Twitter: @LisaCooperMD, @JHhealthequity, @JHUrbanHealth Continue the Conversation: Twitter: @agingcenter Email: agingcenter@jhu.edu Episode 5 Transcript

Episode 4 of Aging Fast & Slow highlights how business collaborations drive systems change to achieve social impact. Guest Stephen Johnston describes how Aging2.0 accelerates innovation through its global community and collective intelligence platform to improve the lives of older adults. Podcast References: Aging2.0 Connect with your local Aging2.0 Chapter The Collective Aging2.0's COVID-19 Request for Critical Topics and Innovations Twitter: @sdbj, @Aging20, @TheA2Collective Continue the Conversation: Twitter: @agingcenter Email: agingcenter@jhu.edu Aging Fast & Slow Episode 4 Transcript

Even amid the COVID-19 outbreak, chronic conditions don't take a break. In honor of National Kidney Month, we talk to Aging Fast & Slow's own Dr. Deidra Crews, a nephrologist at Johns Hopkins. She tells us how kidney health inequities impact us all and how common they are. Dr. Crews also helps us understand what epidemiology and intervention research are, how they differ, and how she uses both in her work. Podcast References: 5 Plus Nuts & Beans for Kidneys Study Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity Twitter: @DrDeidraCrews Continue the Conversation: Twitter: @agingcenter Email: agingcenter@jhu.edu Episode 3 Transcript

Summary: Dr. Keith Whitfield, an expert in aging among African Americans and the Provost at Wayne State University, joins hosts Dr. Sarah Szanton and Dr. Deidra Crews for the second episode of Aging Fast & Slow. Together they discuss the impact of desegregation on cognition by looking at stress and longevity within and among African American families. Podcast References: Publications Education in Time: Cohort Differences in Educational Attainment in African-American Twins Education Desegregation and Cognitive Change in African American Older Adults Book recommendations Handbook of Minority Aging by Keith Whitfield and Tamara Baker Continue the Conversation: Twitter:@agingcenter Email: agingcenter@jhu.edu Episode 2 Transcript

Episode Summary: Hosts Dr. Sarah Szanton and Dr. Deidra Crews kick off Aging Fast & Slow with guest Dr. Elissa Epel, professor of psychiatry at UCSF. Dr. Epel's research seeks to understand the root of health disparities, and the role of chronic stress within aging. Together they unpack her recent work which reveals how the impact of systemic oppression is transmitted intergenerationally. Podcast References: Sign up: UCSF's Aging, Metabolism, & Emotional Research newsletter Publications: Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study Can Childhood Adversity Affect Telomeres of the Next Generation? Possible Mechanisms, Implications, and Next-Generation Research More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science. Continue the Conversation: Twitter: @agingcenter agingcenter@jhu.edu AgingFast & Slow Episode 1 Transcript

Some people age faster than others, but why? Our podcast hosts Dr. Sarah Szanton, a nurse practitioner with a research degree, and Dr. Deidra Crews, a nephrologist, will seek to answer this question. They will talk to scientists, policy experts, and innovators to better understand aging across the life course, and also differences in aging - due to societal structures, community factors, and even our own cells. Learn More: https://nursing.jhu.edu/agingfastandslow