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Season 2: Episodes 23-37
Communication at End of Life
Featuring: Dr. Jen Currin-McCulloch
Dr. Jen Currin-McCulloch, a social worker at CSU, tells us about strategies for meaning-making at end of life: How do we pursue hope despite a debilitating diagnosis? How do we meaningfully reflect on our lives as time becomes more precious? Currin-McCulloch shares how we can communicate with ourselves, our loved ones, and our doctors as we reach the end of our lives.
Season 2: Episode 23
Aging in Place
Featuring: Dr. Maria Delgado
The National Institute on Aging defines aging in place as “staying in your own home as you get older,” though there are many barriers to aging in place, including affordability, disability, and home design. Assistant Professor of Design and Merchandising, Maria Delgado, introduces us to universal design standards that aim to make homes more accessible, and we learn about the affordable, sustainable, and visitable tiny home that Delgado’s students are building for a lucky older adult.
Season 2: Episode 24
Trauma from Dogs to People
Featuring: Dr. Kelly Hall
Dr. Kelly Hall, an associate professor of emergency and critical care at CSU, discusses physical trauma: serious injuries to the body, and how companion animals are teaching us about humans’ capacity for healing into older age. We also learn about about the Veterinary Committee on Trauma (VetCOT) that is developing a database of animal trauma cases and a network of hospitals and trauma systems to improve veterinary patient care in critical cases.
Season 2: Episode 25
Cancer and Aging
Featuring: Dr. James DeGregori
Cancer and aging share seven of the nine hallmarks of aging, meaning that the molecular mechanisms that prompt aging often promote cancer, too. We talk to Dr. James DeGregori, a professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, to sort out why cancer and aging share such similarities. DeGregori describes his lab’s theory of adaptive oncogenesis, which views cancer through the lens of evolution, to answer: If we slow down aging, do we also slow down rates of cancer?
Season 2: Episode 26
Big Data and Health Inequities
Featuring: Dr. Audrey Ruple
Dr. Audrey Ruple is the veterinary epidemiologist on the Dog Aging Project, an open access data science study to understand how genes, lifestyle, and environment influence aging. In this episode, we discuss genetic similarities between dogs and humans, the underrepresentation of diverse groups in human and canine studies, and how big data is revolutionizing diagnoses in translational medicine.
Season 2: Episode 27
An Aging Workforce
Featuring: Dr. Gwen Fisher
Dr. Gwen Fisher is a researcher in CSU’s Occupational Health Psychology Lab, which studies issues of worker health and well-being and characteristics of the work environment that impact individuals and organizations. This conversation is all about the future of work: trends, gaps, and hot topics surrounding the older adult workforce.
Season 2: Episode 28
Financial Security and Cognitive Health
Featuring: Dr. Eric Chess
Dr. Eric Chess is a physician, lawyer, and the Director of The Paul Freeman Financial Security Program at the Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging at the University of Denver. Here, we discuss the intersection of financial security and cognitive health, research at that intersection, as well as signs you can watch out for to recognize financial fraud.
Season 2: Episode 29
Regenerative Medicine 2.0
Featuring: Dr. Nicole Ehrhart
Center for Healthy Aging Director, Dr. Nicole Ehrhart, joins us to discuss regenerative medicine, a line of research that helps to repair or regrow damaged tissue and organs. Ehrhart discusses stem cell therapy as a foundation for regenerative medicine, and then explains a new, cutting-edge approach to addressing age-related diseases: extracellular vesicle therapy for sarcopenia.
Season 2: Episode 30
Aging Policy in Colorado
Featuring: Jodi Waterhouse
Jodi Waterhouse is the Director of Outreach Programs at the University of Colorado Anschutz Multidisciplinary Center on Aging. Beyond creating programs for the Center, Jodi is also an advocate at the state capitol for issues facing older Coloradans. Here we talk with Jodi about two bills that aim to increase the number of medical providers for older adults in Colorado.
Season 2: Episode 31
Lifespan Technology Use
Featuring: Dr. Adela Chen
Associate Professor Adela Chen from CSU’s Department of Computer Information Systems describes how social media use relates to early childhood experiences, and how the boundaries between our professional and personal lives are blurred by the use of technology at work and at home.
Season 2: Episode 32
The Bio-Aging Study
Featuring: Dr. Tom LaRocca
Assistant Professor Tom LaRocca from CSU’s Department of Health and Exercise Science is back to tell us about a new study from his lab that is investigating repetitive elements in the genome as biomarkers for aging..
Season 2: Episode 33
Yoga and Brain Injury
Featuring: Dr. Jaclyn Stephens and Dr. Arlene Schmid
Dr. Jaclyn Stephens and Dr. Arlene Schmid, faculty in CSU’s Department of Occupational Therapy, join to share an update about a study that aims to build support for yoga therapy as a treatment for disability and chronic brain injury.
Season 2: Episode 34
Connecting Through Dance
Featuring: Lisa Morgan
Lisa Morgan, an instructor in CSU’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, discusses how it feels physically and emotionally to connect with others through the art of dance. Morgan shares the cognitive benefits of movement through dance and introduces her Moving Through Parkinson’s program, a dance class for people living with Parkinson’s disease.
Season 2: Episode 35
Women Leaders in STEM
Featuring: Dr. Nicole Ehrhart and Dr. Lise Youngblade
Today’s show is a special two-part episode with the Health and Human Science Matters podcast, hosted by the College of Health and Human Sciences’ Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Matt Hickey, and the college’s Digital Media Strategist, Avery Martin. We teamed up to speak with Dean Lise Youngblade and Dr. Nicole Ehrhart, the former interim and current directors of the Center for Healthy Aging, to have a conversation about women as leaders in science.
Listen to part 1 over at the HHSM podcast (link provided below), where Ehrhart and Youngblade discuss their trajectories, hobbies, and roles as female leaders in STEM. Then, come back here for part 2 to learn why CSU is uniquely positioned to study models of aging because of its land-grant mission. Dr. Ehrhart describes the Center’s Longitudinal COVID-19 Screening Study in Nursing Facilities, and Dean Youngblade shares about CSU’s role in responding to the mental health crisis in Colorado, both locally and in rural areas across the state.
Season 2: Episode 36
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An Exciting Future for Aging Research
Season 2 Finale
Today’s episode revisits every guest from Season 2 of living healthy longer and what makes them most excited for the future of aging studies. Where is aging research going and what makes CHA affiliate faculty hopeful?
Season 2: Episode 37
