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Transcript: How Our Beliefs About Aging Impact Health and Well-Being with Becca Levy, PhD – podcast interview
Transcript: How Our Beliefs About Aging Impact Health and Well-Being with Becca Levy, PhD (podcast episode) Return to the podcast show notes page Dr. Regina Koepp Welcome back to the psychology of aging podcast. So this is season two. And I wanted to launch these…
What is a Sexual Health Policy & Why Does Every Assisted Living Need One?
Assisted living and long-term care communities have a duty to ensure that residents’ rights of sexual autonomy and self-determination are honored and equally have a duty to protect residents from harm. A sexual health policy helps to ensure that both standards are being met.…
FAQs about Delirium
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions I get about delirium What is delirium? Delirium is an acute medical problem often resulting in changes in cognitive function and mentation (e.g., the way the brain thinks, remembers, processes information, etc). It can create problems…
Is Cannabis Use Safe for Older Adults? Interview with Dr. Peter Grinspoon
Cannabis use, marijuana, and medical marijuana is becoming more and more acceptable and popular among older adults. In fact, millions of people are finding it useful for chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, fibromyalgia, colitis, and a wide variety of medical conditions. This is not, however,…
The Most Inspiring End of Life Story Ever Told with MJ Grant
In this second interview with MJ Grant, MJ shares the most intimate details of an end of life conversation she had with her dad, Manley “Mannie” Grant. In this interview, MJ also shares about how it was discovered that her dad was deaf…
How to Bring Family Into Therapy with Older Clients
I think about a therapist who had been meeting with an older client every Tuesday for nearly a year. At first, the changes were easy to explain away: a missed appointment here, a repeated story there, a moment of losing track in the middle of…
Transfer Trauma in Older Adults: Relocation Stress, Identity Loss, and How Therapy Can Help
“I feel like I’m doing time for a crime I never committed.” That’s what one of my older patients said to me in our very first session after he was moved unexpectedly from his home into assisted living. He wasn’t exaggerating. He wasn’t being dramatic.…
