Aging In Full Bloom

I explore the power and importance of storytelling with Andrew Hall, cofounder of No Story Lost. Andrew and his team are dedicated to preserving life's treasured moments by transforming individuals' life stories into beautifully crafted heirloom books. We explore the power of memories, the connection that storytelling fosters, and the legacy it leaves behind. You'll learn about the process of capturing these stories and the special value they hold for families, as well as discuss tips for ensuring that no story is ever lost. Whether you're curious about creating a lasting tribute to a loved one or simply interested in the magic of storytelling, this is an insightful conversation.Memorable Moments00:00 Creating Personal Life Story Books05:22 Quality Storytelling Over DIY Solutions10:00 Interview Insights: Life's Purpose12:31 Unlocking Shy Interviewees14:42 One-Hour Love Story Book17:44 Capture Family Stories NowHere are 3 key takeaways from my conversation with Andrew:The Power of Storytelling: Andrew highlighted how storytelling not only serves as a profound way to preserve memories but also strengthens family connections and passes on invaluable wisdom and values to the next generation.Value of Personal Memoirs: For those who think they may not have much to tell, Andrew's experience proves otherwise. Everyone's stories, no matter how small, can become engaging narratives that capture their essence and history.Preserving Legacy: No Story Lost offers a unique service that combines expert interviewing, writing, and book designing to ensure that these memories are not only preserved but cherished in high-quality, heirloom books.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by HomeCaire. We believe every patient should get the personalized care they need, in the way they want it. Every caregiver should feel supported, valued, and motivated. We see each person as their own entity, with unique needs, desires, and skills. Our goal is to best support our family as they reach new milestones.Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comCopyright 2025 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode:Thank you for listening to Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa StockdaleThanks for listening to Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale, sponsored by HomeCaire of Ohio. We added an "i" to care because we care about the individual. That includes the individual caregiver and the individual client. From each caregiver's caseload to every client's care plan, we understand that individual preferences and priorities matter. People matter, and we haven't lost sight of that here at HomeCaire of Ohio. If you or someone you know needs personal care at home, call 419-458-7000 to learn.

Today's generation is the first to really speak openly about menopause—yet the medical community and popular culture fixate on the negative aspects. Now a renowned women's health expert offers a powerful guide to experiencing perimenopause and menopause as a natural gateway into the next exciting and meaningful phase of our lives. My guest is Susan Willson, the author of https://www.soundstrue.com/products/making-sense-of-menopause (Making Sense of Menopause). She is a Yale-educated certified nurse midwife and certified clinical thermographer with more than 40 years of experience in the women's health field. In this inspiring and highly practical guide, Willson dismantles the cultural falsehoods we've been taught about menopause and illuminates: Menopause as metamorphosis—how the changes in our bodies literally transform us into new women with essential roles to play in our culture How the biological arc of a woman's life unfolds toward menopause—and how our earliest experiences inform the menopause we will have Practical guidance for self-care—including sleep, nutrition, stress management, exercise, and social connections Sexuality and relationships—deepening our emotional bonds and expanding our capacity to give and receive pleasure Becoming the Wise Woman—stepping into the essential role of an elder in our youth-obsessed world Making Sense of Menopause honors the momentous passage that women go through at midlife with an appealing mixture of practical advice and reverent reflection. Susan makes it clear that menopause is not a diminution or mere biological process but a psychospiritual transformation. Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com - Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode: Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network.

Do you want to make your home smart, but aren't sure where to begin? Are you worried about hackers taking control of your smart devices? Do you want to make a smart home that keeps your family entertained, comfortable, and safe? My guest is the author of The https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Home-Manual-Entertained-Comfortable/dp/1735543004 (Smart Home Manual), Marlon Buchanan. He has worked in the IT field for over twenty-five years as a software developer, a college instructor, and an IT Director. When you are done reading The Smart Home Manual you'll know: What a smart home is and what it can do for you How much smart homes cost How to start building your smart home from scratch How to pick the right smart home devices How to plan for the future of the smart home How to secure your smart home Plus, you'll be equipped with all the tools and information you need to plan, design, and implement the smart home you've always wanted. And make a note of his 3 tips for a smart home, which includes: a good home network/wifi think about what you want your smart home to do for you start simple and play, and then add more Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com - Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode: Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network.

Meals-on-Wheels from LifeCare Alliance delivers thousands of meals each day to satisfied customers in Franklin, Madison, Marion, Champaign, and Logan counties. And how is it done? Most of it with volunteer help. My guest is https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniesparrowhughes/ (Stephanie Sparrow Hughes), Development & Community AffairsDevelopment & Community Affairs at LifeCare Alliance. Meals-On-Wheels is LifeCare Alliance's signature program and is volunteer intensive. But they make it easy for anyone to volunteer. It's easy to do so, and https://www.lifecarealliance.org/volunteer/ (easy to learn more about how to make a huge difference) in older adults' lives around Central Ohio. Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com - Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode: Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network.

"86 going on 60." That's what and how my guest feels. James Flaherty is the author of https://www.amazon.com/DEAR-OLD-FRIENDS-REMINDER-PLAYING-ebook/dp/B09MJGH2DZ (Dear Old Friends). The book is a reminder you don't stop playing because you got old--you got old because you stopped playing (and laughing and learning and creating and living). Besides a Happy Memoir from an author who wrote this book at age 44 and 85--DEAR OLD FRIENDS was originally a love letter to all the wonderful, much older friends the author said made his life so much more worthwhile. Full of loving advice for aging magnificently, you'll want to read it and want all your Dear Old Friends--not just your parents--to read, smile, learn and think about how satisfying it is to make every day better. As James reminds us, today is the oldest you've ever been--and the youngest you'll ever be--so let's make today great. Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at https://capitalhealthcarenetwork.com/ (Capital Health Care Network). Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com/ (http://www.subscribeonandroid.com) Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode: Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network.

"I teach people with arthritis to move differently, so they can overcome pain and get back to doing the things they love." My guest is Dr. David Sofer. And this is a quote from his website, www.arthritishelp.info. In our conversation, he states that being diagnosed with arthritis is not a call to the wheelchair and chronic pain. Yes, arthritis is a chronic condition possibly giving us chronic pain. But 50% of those diagnosed with arthritis will not feel the pain or discomfort of this disease. He teaches the principles of movement, which breaks down the fundamentals of how we move. That helps us understand how to live with arthritis. Dr. Dave talks more about posture as well. As he states in this interview, there is no such thing as good or bad posture. Your body tends toward what is comfortable for you, to get your body to balance over your bones. And finally, we talk about how patients are diagnosed with arthritis, and how it is wearing and irregularity in your joints. His website is full of free tutorials and videos to help you help yourself understand and manage the pain of arthritis. Dr. Dave developed his unique method for relieving arthritis pain by combining his decades of clinical practice as a physical therapist and his background as a champion gymnast and springboard diver. Refining this method over thousands of treatments for arthritis patients Dr. Dave inspires and empowers them to overcome their limitations and regain the ability to do the things they love. He has shown that everyone has the ability to improve no matter their age, diagnosis, or physical ability. With the right guidance, understanding, and commitment you have the ability to feel better. Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com Aging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home, rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player. Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at https://capitalhealthcarenetwork.com/ (Capital Health Care Network). Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com/ (http://www.subscribeonandroid.com) Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale

https://movinghealthhome.org/choose-home-care-act-fact-sheet/ (The Choose Home Care Act of 2021), introduced by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Todd Young (R-IN), aims to give more seniors the option to receive care at home for 30 days after a hospitalization, rather than going to a skilled nursing facility or other transitional settings. The legislation would open the door to a variety of home-based services, including skilled nursing, therapy, primary care, personal care, RPM, telehealth, meals, home adaptations and non-emergent transportation. My guest is Joe Russell, Executive Director at https://www.ochch.org/ (Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice). https://www.ochch.org/advocacy (Here's how you can take action to help this Act move forward.) https://www.ochch.org/advocacy/take-action#phone2action (And here's a link to helpful tips to get your voice heard by your representatives.) image thanks to thinkstock Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.com - Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.com Copyright 2022 Lisa Stockdale Mentioned in this episode: Aging in Full Bloom with Lisa Stockdale is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at Capital Health Care Network.

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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home, rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio-based, family-owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home, rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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 refreshing 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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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/1736333909Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

My guest is Patty Davis, the daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.When Patty'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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

For more than 30 years, the Mount Carmel Street Medicine program has been providing free urgent medical care to central Ohioans whom 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 case worker.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 case workers, and community paramedic 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-medicineEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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, Karon Ross, PhD, RN, CNL and Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University is at the table. She 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 crum.257@osu.edu 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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Central Ohio friends - I want to introduce you to Naomi Merino! She the development manager at Alzheimer's Association, Central Ohio Chapter, and is my guest on this episode.The new season of The Longest Day has begun! Leading up to the summer solstice, thousands of people will fight the darkness of Alzheimer's through an activity of their choice. Use your creativity and passion to raise funds and awareness for the fight to end Alzheimer's on The Longest Day. Naomi is looking for committee members to serve Alzheimer's Association, Central Ohio Chapter for one of their signature fund-raisers - The Longest Day. If you live in the area and are interested in serving as a committee member, please let us know. We are so proud of young people like Naomi who are out here making a difference!Get fun ideas on how you can participate and start your fundraiser at https://loom.ly/SgUFFjUIf you have questions reach out to Central Ohio Alzheimer's staff Naomi at nlmerino@alz.org.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

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/Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Elder law is an area of legal practice that specializes on issues that affect the aging population. The purpose of elder law planning is to prepare the elderly person for financial freedom and autonomy through proper financial planning and long-term care options.With me on this episode is my new friend Maggie Kimmel. an attorney with AlerStallings.As she states..."AlerStallings offers continued support through all seasons of life to make sureour clients' estate plans are up to date and reflect their current wishes. Mygrandparents came to this firm eight years ago to craft their own estate plan.Hearing them talk about that continued support and feeling cared for madeall the difference for me. I knew this was the way I wanted to practice law."She love meeting with clients, hearing their stories, and then helping them craft an estate plan that will work for them and their families exactly the way they want it to.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

My guest is Anne Basting, PhD, who is a leader in transforming aging and elder care. I have her on this podcast to talk about her Creative Care Imagination Kit.Based on Dr. Basting's twenty-five years of research, this “imagination kit” makes it easy for families, friends, and caregivers to make meaningful connections with elders and others dealing with physical, cognitive, or emotional challenges, including memory loss. The Creative Care Imagination Kit sparks conversation and encourages active listening, allowing all ages to freely share ideas and stories without worrying about getting the details “correct.”Dr. Basting's years of research have shown that these practices stimulate the brain and awaken the imagination, adding wonder and awe not only to the daily lives of those with dementia but to all family members, and provides them with a means of connection and communication. You can find out more about the kit here - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/creative-care-imagination-kit-anne-bastingAnd her book, Creative Care, here - https://www.harpercollins.com/products/creative-care-anne-bastingEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Produced and narrated by veteran NYC radio host and master storyteller Leslie Gold “The Radiochick," A Life's Story shines a light on the lives of special octogenarians, nonagenarians, and centenarians who have done, and are still doing astonishing things.Many have been participants in important chapters of history. Every episode is an intimate and remarkable profile, concluding with the insight that can only come from those who have seen it all.Leslie gives us some insight on why she began the podcast, and dives into some backstories from a few of her favorite episodes.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-lifes-story/id1565179566Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Aging is Cool was founded by Amy & Damien Temperley in 2017 with a goal to help older adults Stay Strong, Stay Smart and Stay Social. They do this through a variety of mechanisms including A Mighty Good Time, their go-to-website for activities, custom built engaging activities for older adults and training, consulting and support for residential communities. In an effort to serve everyone regardless of ability to pay, Aging is Cool has both a for-profit and non-profit side. Through donations and grants, they are able to provide donation-based programs throughout the community.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

My guest is author Eleanor Lerman, and her new book is Watkins Glen. It's the story of Susan, a woman in her sixties, who finds herself taking care of her estranged older brother, Mark, who has Alzheimer's. They are the children of a father who worked in his brothers' upholstery factory for most of the year but in the summers, escaped with his family to Watkins Glen, where he was the best outlaw drag racer in a town that primarily caters to high-end road racing. After a life spent in New York City, Susan has moved back to Watkins Glen where she takes her brother to live―temporarily, she thinks. https://www.amazon.com/Watkins-Glen-Eleanor-Lerman/dp/1952781019Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

My guest is author Marilyn Peterson Haus. Her book, Half of a Whole, explores the intimate bond between a twin brother and sister, the cruel consequences that occur when one of them becomes mentally ill, and the courage required to break away when love is not enough.Just when Marilyn thought she had escaped life as the child of born-again farmers on the Minnesota plains, her twin brother's manic violence catapults her back to the fissures of her childhood. Half of a Whole is the haunting chronicle of her twin's encroaching mental illness, her mother's blatant favoritism, and the stultifying strictures of her family's religious zealotry. Sentence by sentence, she battles to break free from a painful past and live life on her own terms.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

I talk with Teresa Moerer, who is the author of The Art of Assisting Aging Parents: Discover the Journey to Honor Your Parents, Create Treasured Memories, and Live Life to the Fullest.In The Art of Assisting Aging Parents, she steps you through how to turn daily activities and healthy living strategies into meaningful and affective experiences. Her Four-Step Method will teach you how to help your parents:Increase motor and thinking skillsInstill healthy habits to promote wellnessMake smooth transitions and set quality goalsPromote self-awareness and vision for the futureReach their highest state of health and well-beingEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

We're going to talk about what seniors should do once they've been vaccinated. Dr. Ronan M. Factora is a geriatrician in Cleveland, Ohio and is affiliated with Cleveland Clinic. As he states, "now we're starting to see solutions to how we can get back to normal. And one of those interventions, one of the solutions does include vaccination. 00:03:08.760we should take advantage of this because we all want to get back to the type of life that we were living before the pandemic."Do you think we will do you think we'll get back to normal? "I know that there's going to be changes. And, you know, normal is a relative term. I guess the goal is to get closer to normal because it doesn't sound like we're going to get rid of coronavirus."Dr. Factora goes a bit deeper to help us understand the term "bubble" in relation to who we can come in contact with."Everyone has their bubble and then there's different different kind of terms for the bubble for sure. You have the bubble of the people who live underneath your own household. You know, where everyone's been at. But some people have expanded that bubble to include close friends and family that they know have been, you know, really limited in terms of where they go. So if you're very well aware of the whereabouts and the goings on of friends and family who they've been in contact with, where they've gone to, then you can have confidence that they're not going to be bringing in coronavirus from some other location outside of that bubble that we're talking about."Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Elizabeth Marcus is my guest. She is the author of Don't Say a Word: A Daughter's Two Cents.The book is about Elizabeth's parents, Edna and Leo, a perpetually warring, tyrannical pair in their 80s. They begin wintering In Mexico, where they abandon their usual prudence to embrace adventure and a bevy of sketchy new friends. Soon, Edna adopts a pair of shyster builders whom she trusts over her own architect-daughter Elizabeth, and a farcical house results. Blithely indifferent to the calamities that result, the pair refuse all help from their too-compliant only child.Though unique in its loony details, Don’t Say A Word! will resonate with beleaguered adult-children everywhere who will recognize the special misery of watching their parents become taken over by dementia.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Coming up in our next episode, I have a delightful conversation with author Elizabeth Marcus, about her new book Don't Say a Word: A Daughter's Two Cents.Though unique in its loony details, Don’t Say A Word! will resonate with beleaguered adult-children everywhere who will recognize the special misery of watching, helpless, as stubborn, diminished parents careen precariously toward the end of life.Here's a sneak peak of that episode coming up next week on 4/7/2021.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

No one says aging is easy. And I think this poem from Patricia Fleming does a great job in reminding us about that.Email me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

What does it really mean, family owned and operated?Capital Health Care Network celebrates 40 years in business in 2021. My guest are sisters (and daughters) of the original owners, Bob and Lynn Huff. Sarah Manning, Chief of Community Design and Kara Bernsen, Chief of Network Development.Kara and Sarah cover how their parents started the business started 40 years ago, and how over the decades has come to change to meet the demands and challenges of serving our older adult population.What is most important to them are these four values...Compassion: We approach others with an open heart and understanding.Leadership: We will inspire others to set high standards.Respect: We respect others and the contributions they make and will treat them with dignity.Gratitude: We are grateful for the responsibility and opportunity to make a positive impact in the lives of senior adults.Coupled with the mission of seniors... Enjoying a safe environmentReceiving quality healthcareGaining opportunities for spiritual, social and intellectual engagementYou can find out more at https://capitalhealthcarenetwork.com/contact-usEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Follow the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Who doesn't remember working the broom and towel in front of the TV with Body By Jake?Now in is 60's, Jake knows how important it is to stay active and physically healthy. I talk with Jake about his beginnings on TV, and what he is doing today to help older adults stay active during COVID-19.Jake started as a personal trainer with clients including Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford, whom he trained for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.Steinfeld became Chairman of the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 and served until 2011 under Governor Jerry Brown. As a tribute to his lifelong devotion to physical fitness and for his persistent teaching of the Fitness Life Style, he was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame, Class of 2006.Jake was named Chairman of the National Foundation for Governors' Fitness Councils in 2012. Through the cooperation of public and private partnerships, the NFGFC rewards "Don't Quit" fitness centers to elementary and middle schools who show innovative ways to promote fitness and nutrition in their schools and communities across the United States.As Jake states, "We all have dreams. And, you know, a lot of folks don't don't act on their dreams because they get they get afraid. They feel they're not to be able to succeed. Well, maybe they talk about their dreams and the people they talk to about them, but they maybe might not be as positive as they would hope them to be. It's not that they don't want you to succeed, but like my parents, they don't want to see you get hurt."https://dontquit.com/Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

This episode is to help everybody understand what area agencies on aging do all across the country and your state.I talk with Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging's Communications Manager Steve Centofanti.COAAA is one of twelve area agencies on aging in the state of Ohio, and one of more than 650 area agencies on aging in the United States.Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging helps older adults and individuals with disabilities live safely and independently in their homes for as long as possible with the assistance of various service providers. COAAA arranges and coordinates non-medical in-home services that help with daily living, such as home making, personal care, transportation, home delivered meals, emergency response, minor home modification, skilled nursing. COAAA has licensed social workers and registered nurses who are care coordinators, who are care managers. They connect individuals who need help in the home to area service providers who provide those services, such as transportation, such as providing home deliver meals and homemaking and personal care.http://www.coaaa.org/1-800-589-7277Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Caring for a parent, spouse, or relative who cannot care for themselves due to age, infirmity, or illness is one of the noblest human activities. It's also one of the most stressful, posing challenges that can be painful, confusing, frustrating, and deeply rewarding-sometimes all at once. When Caregiving Calls is an invitation to a deep conversation about caregiving and its meaning for you.Aaron Blight has lived the caregiving experience many ways-as a family caregiver for a mother-in-law struggling with brain cancer as it stole her mental clarity and ultimately her life; as the owner of a home care company that supported thousands of families living their own versions of the same journey; and as a researcher, lecturer, and consultant traveling the world to learn from family caregivers and their professional helpers.He shares his insights in eighteen brief, thoughtful chapters that examine the many facets of caregiving. He explores how caregiving reshapes family relationships, challenges comfortable assumptions, and stresses your ability to manage your time, energy, and emotions. He shows how the changing mental and physical state of a loved one can lead to growing vulnerability, need, and loneliness on the part of care receiver and caregiver alike. He shares stories-poignant, funny, and often inspiring-that vividly capture the unique daily realities of the caregiving life. And he offers candid, practical advice that can help family caregivers do a better job of coping with the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual challenges they face.Aaron Blight, Ed.D., is an international speaker, author, and consultant on caregiving, aging, and healthcare. He is the founder of Caregiving Kinetics and has been recognized as a "Top 100 Healthcare Leader" by the International Forum on Advancements in Healthcare.Once you hear a few segments from his book, you will want to read more of it immediately.https://bookshop.org/books/when-caregiving-calls-guidance-as-you-care-for-a-parent-spouse-or-aging-relative/9781733914147Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Even though we are going through times where we can't connect like we used to, or want to, offices on aging around the country are still an important part of older adults' lives.I talk with Trudy Wilson, Director of Prime Time Office on Aging. Prime Time is a senior center located in Jefferson County (OH), serving people who are 60 years and older.Prime Time is a division of Trinity Health System, and are part of the larger Catholic health initiatives, which known as Common Spirit Health. Prime Time is only one of two senior centers that is in that system that is affiliated with the local hospital.Prime Time offers a wealth of activities and services to keep you active and healthy! Whether it be our health screenings, Bible studies, crafts, computer classes, garden group, or just getting together for a good ol' game of bocce, we are always looking for new and exciting ways to help our members live life to the fullest. https://www.primetimejeffersoncounty.com/trudywilson@trinityhealth.comFind out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Wow, what an honor to speak with Lifting Hearts With The Arts Founder & President Maya Joshi.With COVID-19 causing her and her family to limit their family visits, she and her sister start LHA to work with assisted/independent living facilities to pair residents with members of their team based on mutual interests. Individuals from their organization then reach out via Zoom, Skype or FaceTime to connect with residents.Based in Chicago, the group is now touching lives in Nevada and Texas as well!Find out more at https://www.liftingheartswiththearts.org/Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

In my next episode, I have the distinct honor in speaking with Lifting Hearts With The Arts Founder & President Maya Joshi. Here's a sneak peak into what you will hear in that episode...Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

I interview Lee Gutkind, author of My Last Eight Thousand Days. This is his 17th book, and I couldn't put it down."This revealing, candid, and vivid portrait of one man’s view of aging written by the man who played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy, examines male aging in a way we’ve not seen before."In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, taking his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, recounting not only his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. You can purchase his book by going to his website, https://leegutkind.com/books/my-last-eight-thousand-days/Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

I speak with author Lee Gutkind, and talk about his new book (his 17th!), My Last Eight Thousand Days.Here is preview of what's coming up...Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

I welcome my good friend Cindy Paige to the episode. She has written a book that I want you to know about, and hear her story behind the writing of it.This book is a collection of practical strategies, artfully woven together with storytelling of the pain of the journey and the humor of life. Told as a metaphor to climbing Mount Everest, Summit will meet you in your current situation and set you up to reach your personal destination of peace and happiness."Are you stuck in the aftermath of life’s storm? Climb out of pain to find peace.Everyone experiences pain and loss—and it hits you like a storm. This book is a collection of practical strategies artfully woven together with storytelling of the pain of the journey and the humor of life. Told as a metaphor to climbing Mt. Everest, Summit will meet you in your current situation and set you up to reach your personal destination of peace and happiness. You will be guided to:• Prepare. From where you are to where you want to be—you will map your destination and gather what you need.• Climb. Learn practical tips and strategies to tackle your mountain and hear from others on their trek. You are not alone.• Summit. The journey is hard, but not impossible.Peace is yours.If you are someone who has experienced a loss and would like to move forward in your recovery, this book is for you. Readers will feel the empathy of their own pain mirrored in the metaphor of the mountain climb but see the transformation of that pain into realistic milestones on the journey to peace. You can reach your Summit. Begin the journey today.https://www.amazon.com/Summit-Guide-Peace-Cindy-Paige/dp/1647462932Cindy is a Certified Senior Advisor at Oasis Senior Advisors. Oasis specializes in help seniors find the right match when looking for Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care locations. Contact Cindy at 614-407-1470 or email her at col3@YourOasisAdvisor.comFind out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Telemedicine, or telehealth. You may have heard this recently, and maybe even prior to 20/20. I think some of us in health care knew what telehealth was, but it wasn't exactly a household word until, well, until this year. So these days, you get more and more opportunity to utilize telehealth. Telehealth is a quick, easy, affordable and crazy, convenient way to connect with your local physician.Simply put, it's a way of delivering and receiving health care remotely by means of telecommunication, and that doesn't necessarily have to mean a smartphone.The cool thing is it can help you skip the trip to the doctor's office when you need to see a physician or you need medical attention for routine, non-emergency care. This is technology working for you when it comes to health care.Telehealth is changing the nature of health care. So get with the program! Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

A great heartwarming story, based around the old black telephone we all grew up with.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

A great heartwarming story, based around the old black telephone we all grew up with.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Coming up next week, a heartwarming tale around the ole' black telephone we grew up with.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Coming up next week, a heartwarming tale around the ole' black telephone we grew up with.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

We have a special guest with us in the episode. Cassie Barlow is a volunteer for the Alzheimer's Association in Dayton, Ohio, and on the Alzheimer's Association Miami Valley Chapter Board of Directors.There are five million people in our country right now who are living with Alzheimer's disease. And there's 16 million people who are caring for those five million. This disease kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.Walk to End Alzheimer's is everywhere!No matter where you are, you can walk in small, safe groups of friends and family in your community. Because we're all raising funds for one goal: A world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia.We talk with Cassie about how this walk has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But how it is actually just as easy to participate, raise money, and raise awareness.The concept just go out for a walk with your family or your group that you've been you've been hanging out with during this pandemic crisis. And before you go out and walk, you can gather online and watch the opening ceremonies.The Walk in Dayton is set for October 3, 2020. And to find the walk in your community, go to https://act.alz.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=walk_homepage.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

We have a special guest with us in the episode. Cassie Barlow is a volunteer for the Alzheimer's Association in Dayton, Ohio, and on the Alzheimer's Association Miami Valley Chapter Board of Directors.There are five million people in our country right now who are living with Alzheimer's disease. And there's 16 million people who are caring for those five million. This disease kills more than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.Walk to End Alzheimer's is everywhere!No matter where you are, you can walk in small, safe groups of friends and family in your community. Because we're all raising funds for one goal: A world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia.We talk with Cassie about how this walk has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But how it is actually just as easy to participate, raise money, and raise awareness.The concept just go out for a walk with your family or your group that you've been you've been hanging out with during this pandemic crisis. And before you go out and walk, you can gather online and watch the opening ceremonies.The Walk in Dayton is set for October 3, 2020. And to find the walk in your community, go to https://act.alz.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=walk_homepage.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

We are smack in the middle of summer 2020 and there's a lot going on. Well, there's also a lot that isn't going on or happening because of the virus. Some of us are working from home. Some of us are out of work. Vacations have been canceled, postponed or modified. We've got politics, politics and more politics. Breaking news, fake news. With an election looming right around the corner, social unrest, protesting, rioting, racism, COVID-19. I'll say COVID-19 again.A challenge to health care system issues and concerns about our children returning to school. Smoldering heat in some parts of the country, which makes wearing these masks particularly challenging. And we're being encouraged to refrain from or limiting gatherings. That means different things to different people. But one thing I think we can all agree on, there's a lot going on. And with so much going on, I think it's real easy to lose perspective. when I say it's easy to lose perspective. Don't worry. I am not going to tell you what to think or how to make meaning of or make sense of or assign meaning to anything or everything that's happening. Instead, I'm just going to ask you listeners to take a moment, take a deep breath and try to keep it all in perspective. And I have a guest in the studio who is going to help us do just that. Mrs. D did a podcast with me some weeks back where she talked about getting brave and asking for and accepting the help that you need as you age. If you haven't heard that one, go back and take a listen to that podcast drew an overwhelmingly positive response. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/32535436.I've had the privilege of hearing her story during an interview where she recently talked about her life story in pieces, sharing a story about leaving Mississippi in fear for her life and the lives of her children and husband because of racism. I've given a lot of thought to some of what she shared during that interview because I believe understanding the past helps us understand the present, or at least it helps us see the bigger picture. I think that's what keeping it in perspective is all about. It's about understanding what is happening now or what might happen in relationship to what has happened or in relation to other people, places and experiences. Keeping it in perspective is the exact opposite of tunnel vision, and I'm confident that Mrs. D can help us keep it in perspective.Find out more on my blog at https://aginginfullbloomwithlisa.blogspot.com/2020/06/stop-loneliness-from-ruling-day-during.htmlEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comAging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

We are smack in the middle of summer 2020 and there's a lot going on. Well, there's also a lot that isn't going on or happening because of the virus. Some of us are working from home. Some of us are out of work. Vacations have been canceled, postponed or modified. We've got politics, politics and more politics. Breaking news, fake news. With an election looming right around the corner, social unrest, protesting, rioting, racism, COVID-19. I'll say COVID-19 again.A challenge to health care system issues and concerns about our children returning to school. Smoldering heat in some parts of the country, which makes wearing these masks particularly challenging. And we're being encouraged to refrain from or limiting gatherings. That means different things to different people. But one thing I think we can all agree on, there's a lot going on. And with so much going on, I think it's real easy to lose perspective. when I say it's easy to lose perspective. Don't worry. I am not going to tell you what to think or how to make meaning of or make sense of or assign meaning to anything or everything that's happening. Instead, I'm just going to ask you listeners to take a moment, take a deep breath and try to keep it all in perspective. And I have a guest in the studio who is going to help us do just that. Mrs. D did a podcast with me some weeks back where she talked about getting brave and asking for and accepting the help that you need as you age. If you haven't heard that one, go back and take a listen to that podcast drew an overwhelmingly positive response. https://www.spreaker.com/episode/32535436.I've had the privilege of hearing her story during an interview where she recently talked about her life story in pieces, sharing a story about leaving Mississippi in fear for her life and the lives of her children and husband because of racism. I've given a lot of thought to some of what she shared during that interview because I believe understanding the past helps us understand the present, or at least it helps us see the bigger picture. I think that's what keeping it in perspective is all about. It's about understanding what is happening now or what might happen in relationship to what has happened or in relation to other people, places and experiences. Keeping it in perspective is the exact opposite of tunnel vision, and I'm confident that Mrs. D can help us keep it in perspective.

Aging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.

Aging In Full Bloom is sponsored by Capital Health Care Network, an Ohio based, family owned and operated company, providing solutions that help seniors age on their own terms. Those solutions include home care, senior living, nursing home and rehab care, and hospice. Learn more at http://www.CapitalHealthCareNetwork.com. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast player. Android user? http://www.subscribeonandroid.comEmail me, Lisa Stockdale, anytime at aginginfullbloom@gmail.comHELP US SPREAD THE WORD!We'd love it if you could please share this podcast with your social media friends! If you liked this episode, please leave us a rating and a review in your podcast player.