Living to 100 Club

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we introduce our listeners to the Third Half Advisors. Our guests are the founders, Caroline Brecker and Campbell Gerrish. Using a strengths-based approach, Third Half Advisors helps individuals figure out their next chapter. How do people find purpose and meaning when their primary career concludes? What are the best ways to manage our senior years? How do we stay positive, find leisure time, an...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, our guest is Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE. SAGE is the world’s largest organization dedicated to advocacy, services, and innovations for LGBTQ+ older adults. Michael introduces our audience to the mission of SAGE, its policy advocacy role, and the array of community-based services it offers in New York and Florida. We explore the unique challenges of this cohort group, from social isolation to agei...

If you’re 50+ and believe that there is so much more to explore in life, welcome to Age & Attitude. Host Malin Svensson – celebrity trainer to the 50+ crowd such as Jane Fonda, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Maria Shriver – will get you feeling empowered and motivated through conversations with people who embrace their age and have a great attitude towards life. Join her for monthly one-on-one interviews with her clients and friends whe...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we welcome a designer of a breakthrough product for anyone struggling to open child-proof pill bottles. Our guest is Rocky Batzel, CEO of SnapSlide, a packaging innovations company dedicated to making it easier to access, use, and store pharmaceutical products. We discuss the mounting medical accessibility issue for the millions of Americans with loss of hand dexterity, due to arthritis, Parkinso...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, our guests, dubbed the “Golden Dating Doctors,” discuss the art of finding a new relationship after separation or loss of a partner. Both in their 80’s, Dr. Gloria Horsley and Frank Powers met each other online after their marriages ended. Their new book, Open to Love: The Secrets of Senior Dating, chronicles the process of finding love in our senior years. They met on a dating website for senio...

This Living to 100 Club’s podcast introduces our listeners to Samaritan’s Feet International. This is an organization devoted to giving shoes to seniors around the world. Our guest is Deborah Cox-Roush, Development Officer, and Senior Program Manager for the organization. We discuss the prevalence of foot problems in older adults. How does the lack of proper footwear increase the risk of falls. She explains how it contributes to ba...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we invite Dr. Torkil Faero to discuss the value of monitoring our heart rate variability. Dr. Faero’s latest best-selling book, The Pulse Cure, focuses on the strategies to staying healthy. It explains how to use a smart watch or other wearable device to monitor heart rate variability. We discuss the now well-known strategies for longevity, including nutrition, exercise, reduced alcohol consumpti...

Our guest on this Living to 100 Club podcast is Dr. Marjorie Burns, who goes by the name, Bijee. In this conversation, we learn about Bijee’s latest period of her life as the author of a new book of fiction, The New Cadets. And, as a very busy octogenarian, we learn about her attitude to “keep it moving.” Now in her 80’s, our guest hikes, bicycles and skis in her home state of Washington. She has a 27-foot climbing wall in her home...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we hear a love story from our guest, Sarah Cart. Sarah shares the journey of her husband’s acute medical illness and serious decline during Covid. In this conversation, she shares the toll it took on her and her entire family. These include her husband's kidney failure, hip fracture, and congestive heart failure to a heart transplant, cardiac rehabilitation and recovery from painkillers. Througho...

This Living to 100 Club podcast invites as its guest Michael Rubino, the founder of Home Cleanse. Home Cleanse is dedicated to addressing poor indoor air quality, a factor that has worsened in recent years. This is especially so as our homes get more energy efficient. Because energy efficiency impacts ventilation and air exchange, particles and toxins can increase. In turn, this contributes to spores and mold growth.

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This Living to 100 Club podcast introduces our audience to Hormone Replacement Therapy. We discuss the use of all natural hormones that ease the degenerative side effects of aging. Our guest, Dr. Greg Brannon, is the Founder and Medical Director of Optimal Bio. This company specializes in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT). We learn how BHRT is different from the usual therapy with synthetic hormone replacement. BHRT u...

On this Living to 100 Club podcast, we invite Frances Woolley as our guest. Dr. Woolley is an economist at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is an authority on challenges ahead as the Baby Boomer generation contemplates the risk of needing long-term care. We discuss the demands on health care systems as our population ages. Also discussed are the shortage of long-term care beds, and the inequities in paying for this care. ...

This podcast takes a close look at the risk factors for prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. Our guest is Paul Arangua, MPH in Epidemiology and an educator/researcher with the Prostate Conditions Education Council. We explore the incidence of prostate cancer, the risk factors, screening recommendations, and treatment outcomes. Why is prostate cancer so virulent? When left untreated, why does it spr...

In this Living to 100 Club podcast, we invite Dr. William Levine to discuss the incidence of gum disease, its causes, and treatments. Dr. Levine has practiced the specialty of periodontic dentistry for over 35 years. He has been at the forefront of revolutionizing the way we treat and manage disease. We discuss why gum disease is so prevalent, its connection to inflammation, and the consequences of leaving gum disease untreated. Ou...

This Living to 100 Club podcast introduces our listeners to an innovative home-based medical care program, WellBe Senior Medical. Our guest is Dr. Iyad Houshan. We discuss the benefits of at-home medical care with older adults who are faced with multiple and complex health challenges. Our listeners will learn about the “full risk” model of reimbursement, vs. the traditional fee-for-service model. We understand how this incentivizes...

Our guest for this Living to 100 Club podcast is Katie Wee, who shares her prescription for liberating ourselves of our inner critic and moving toward getting happy and staying happy.  Katie is a wellness retreat leader who helps individuals visualize their “wants” in the areas of home life, health, finances, relationships, and career. From here, she helps to create a path to not only reach these desires but also to bring these rea...

This podcast introduces us to the groundbreaking City of Longevity, located at The Overlook Senior Living Community in Charlton, Massachusetts. We have two guests today: Tameryn Campbell, President and CEO at The Overlook. Our second guest is Lynne Corner, Deputy Director at the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA). We learn about the concept of NICA’s Cities of Longevity, primarily that the communities actively support ...

In this Living to 100 Club Podcast, we explore the challenges of making important, difficult decisions about our future well-being, and who can help with these decisions. Our topic is "Health and Wealth: How to Make Them Last. And our guest is Melinda Kruse DiPerna, a Broker-Associate Realtor. We first explore major, life-threatening decisions that our guest faced years ago. These included physical, inter-personal, and professional...

In this Living to 100 Club podcast, our guest discusses strategies for changing how someone experiences chronic pain. Our guest is Dr. Afton Hassett, the author of a just-released book, Chronic Pain Reset: 30 days of Activities, Practices, and Skills to Help You Thrive. The book helps readers evaluate your pain and its triggers and offers straightforward and often fun strategies to improve chronic pain. How can a seemingly disconne...