Introduction to Aging Forward Podcast: What’s in it for me?

Welcome to Aging Forward- A podcast providing thoughtful education on topics related healthy aging and geriatric medicine from experts in the field of community internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care at Mayo Clinic. Whether you are a student/learner, someone who is already practicing in the healthcare field, a caregiver, or perhaps someone who is simply interested in learning more about the science of healthy aging and how to be proactive about improving health span - this podcast is for you.

In this introduction, we share the mission, purpose behind this channel, and what it means to Age Forward. 

Caring for an Aging America is going to be a very unique challenge as the population of older adults increase over the next few decades. We all need to be aware of the changing demographic because we will all be involved in caring for an older adult to some capacity- whether as a caregiver or a healthcare provider. 

This episode will give you an overview of future topics:

- Cognitive health and how to keep our brains healthy

- Understanding Geriatric syndromes- what are they? How can these be prevented?

- Introduction to Frailty: Recognizing this phenotype and understanding the consequences

- Polypharmacy and Deprescribing 

- Meeting Nutritional needs as we age

- For the caregiver: I can't keep my loved one out of the hospital, what do I do? Understanding care transitions

- Navigating challenging and complex healthcare visits

- Research Highlights: Interventions in Aging and senolytics

- Taking care of our bone health

- The scope of Geriatric care in the past, present and future

- Interested in Geriatrics as a career? Perspectives from Geriatric fellows

 

Welcome and thank you for Joining! Please subscribe and follow along!

Host: Dr. Christina Chen, MD, Department of Community Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mayo Clinic

Instagram: @mayocliniccommunitymed @grey.edelweiss