Senior Care Authority

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Healthy Weight Loss Without Drugs or Counting Calories

Dr. Todd Cevene is a leader in integrated healthcare and natural weight loss, with 25+ years of experience. Creator of the Metabolic Optimization System, he has helped 75,000+ individuals lose over 2 million pounds naturally. Dr. Cevene is a speaker and consultant and has addressed audiences of up to 5,000. Author of Business Management for Physicians, he specializes in metabolic restoration and private healthcare consulting. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Research on Preventing Alzheimer's

Eve Adler is the Ambassador for Education and Outreach at the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation. She is a Health Educator, Registered Nurse, Registered Yoga Teacher, Qi Gong Practitioner, Health Correspondent, and Brain Longevity Specialist. Her diverse experiences in academia, healthcare delivery, health promotion, and media outreach have provided her with opportunities to work internationally with teams of healthcare partners and educators to develop wellness promotion programs and progressive pathways to higher education and employment. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Stroke of Insight

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist who is affiliated with the DePaul University School of Education. In 1996, Dr. Taylor experienced a major hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain causing her to lose the ability to walk, talk, read, write or recall any of her life. It took eight years for her to completely recover. In 2008 her memoir My Stroke of Insight spent 63 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and her TED talk was the first to go viral. In 2021, Whole Brain Living was published. www.BoomersTodayRadio.com

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How Vision Connected to Other Aspects of Our Health

Sunir J. Garg, MD is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and a clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His clinical interests include advanced treatments for diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, complex retinal detachments, retinal vascular diseases, and surgical diseases of the macula and retina. In addition to authoring over 500 papers and book chapters, Dr. Garg serves as an editor for the Merck Manual, Editor-in-Chief of the American Academy of Ophthalmology ONE Network, and is on the American Diabetes Association Standard of Care Committee. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Advice on Dementia for Family Caregivers

Carrie Aalberts, also known as Dementia Darling holds a Master in Science focused in Gerontology and over a decade of experience in dementia care. As Dementia Darling, Carrie has built a nurturing online community of over 60k followers, providing education, support, and a safe space for caregivers. Carrie’s goal is to enhance quality of life, encourage joy, and challenge the tragedy narrative around dementia and aging. She offers a plethora of services as a full time educator and advocate. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Getting Dementia Help from Medicare GUIDE

Dr. Mia Yang is a geriatrician, dementia specialist, implementing innovative programs and research to benefit frail, medically complex older adults with dementia and their families. She is the Director of Wake Forest GUIDE program, House Call Program, and physician liaison for the Memory Counseling Program. She also hosts her own podcast called Ask Dr. Mia, conversations on aging well. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/ https://www.miayangmd.com/

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Improving Quality of Life Improves Health Outcomes

Owner of a Seniors Helping Seniors home care agency serving residents from Delray Beach up to Lake Worth Florida. Seniors Helping Seniors is a peer-to-peer model and John's agency specializes in companion care. He hires active seniors with life experience and a passion for helping others and matches them with a local senior who needs help to ensure their day-to-day needs are met and they are living their best life. John is a Mental Health Counselor licensed in the state of Florida. He is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and a board member of the Partnership for Aging in Palm Beach County. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Selling a Home & Downsizing with Less Stress

Ben Souchek founded The Sierra Group, LLC more than 25 years ago to simplify the selling process for homeowners. Having inspected thousands of houses and purchased more than 600 properties, he understood the challenges facing sellers, especially when downsizing. After the 2008 market correction, he created Home Downsizing Solutions to provide a more complete solution for homeowners wanting to sell a house and downsize or move to senior living. Free Workbook: www.homedownsizingsolutions.com/workbook https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Boomer or Generation Jones?

Jonathan Pontell is a writer, business/political advisor, cultural commentator, and entrepreneur. He’s the person who identified, and coined the name for, Generation Jones, and is considered that topic’s global authority. He’s discussed Gen Jones on numerous TV networks, including CNN, NBC, BBC and CBS. He’s advised world leaders about Gen Jones voters, including European Prime Ministers and U.S. Presidents. He’s advised numerous Fortune 500 corporations about Generation Jones consumers and employees, including three of the world’s 10 largest corporations. Educated at Cambridge University (UK), Jonathan is a life-long student, absorbing lessons in the over 100 countries he has traveled to. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Healthy Brain Aging

Debbie Hampton recovered from an attempt to end her life, and the resulting brain injury to become an inspirational and educational writer. She has written for The Huffington Post, Posit Science, MindBodyGreen, and other well-known clients. On her website, "The Best Brain Possible," she shares information and inspiration on how you can better your brain and life. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Latest Technology for Fall Detection

Stephen Popovich, President/CEO of Theora Care, is an innovator in the data communications field with more than 30 years of experience. Popovich is a serial entrepreneur, was Co-Founder/CEO of Inside Out Networks with USB technology products used in medical, military, and other commercial applications that he sold to Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII). In 2015, he founded Theora Care to provide caregiving solutions based on AI, neural networking and Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies. These advanced situational awareness products maximize quality of life (QoL) for older adults as well as integrating caregiver connectivity and support into its product designs. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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A Better Approach to Memory Care

Teresa Youngstrom is a seasoned Registered Nurse and Dementia Specialist. She has almost 40 years of Clinical and Leadership experience. She became intensely focused on Memory Care when it touched her own family. Teresa is a PAC Certified Independent Trainer under Teepa Snow. Her passion for improving the lives of people living with Dementia led her to start her own business in 2018, “A Better Approach to Memory Care”, where she provides staff training, family consulting, professional education and a podcast called, “Memory Care with Teresa Youngstrom.”.       https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Teresa Youngstrom is a seasoned Registered Nurse and Dementia Specialist. She has almost 40 years of Clinical and Leadership experience. She became intensely focused on Memory Care when it touched her own family. Teresa is a PAC Certified Independent Trainer under Teepa Snow. Her passion for improving the lives of people living with Dementia led her to start her own business in 2018, “A Better Approach to Memory Care”, where she provides staff training, family consulting, professional education and a podcast called, “Memory Care with Teresa Youngstrom."

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Your Legacy - What to Know Before You Go

Dr. Kimberly Harms has been around the block in life. She has served as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public Health Service, a dental school professor, a grief counselor, a death doula, a civil mediator, and many other prominent positions. She is an award-winning, best-selling author of the book, “Are You Ready?: How to Build a Legacy to Die For” as well as being an international speaker on the topics of grief, conflict and legacy planning. She has also suffered many personal losses, including the deaths by suicide of her mother and son and the death by broken heart of her husband after their son’s death. Her most important role now is mother to her two surviving children and grandmother to 6 precious grandchildren. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Wine, Women & Dementia - Celebrating Caregivers

In 2016, Kitty Norton left her job as an NBC assistant editor in Los Angeles to walk, stumble, crawl with her dementia mother. While doing so, she authored the dementia caregiver blog Stumped Town Dementia, writing tales of dementia life for readers around the world. After Gloria Norton died from vascular dementia, Kitty created and directed the dementia family caregiver documentary, Wine, Women, & Dementia, in honor of her mother and to celebrate family caregivers; to let them know they are worthy of being seen, heard, and respected on this difficult road to the end of life. https://www.winewomenanddementia.com/ https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Have We Reached Our Limit on Aging?

S. Jay Olshansky received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Chicago in 1984. He is currently a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Associate at the Center on Aging at the University of Chicago and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. The focus of his research to date has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, forecasts of the size, survival, and age structure of the population, pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people (The Longevity Dividend), and global implications of the re-emergence of infectious and parasitic diseases. We’re going to talk about his recent paper titled, “Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century,” which was recently recognized in the WSJ and NY Times. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/

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Prevent the Risk of Falls Now

Dr. Gradman graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors. He moved to California and completed his postgraduate studies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he practiced vascular surgery for over forty years. His book, “The Fall Guy, How to Keep Gravity from Ruining Your Day,” is a primer on fall prevention. It blends humor, vignettes, and many anecdotes along with useful and thorough advice for adults and seniors. https://www.seniorcareauthority.com/resources/boomers-today/ "Fall Guy" great gift at www.wgradman.com