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How to Keep Your Brain Healthy as You Age
Our brains age just like the rest of our bodies, and just like it’s important to care for our bodies so we can move functionally well for as long as possible, it’s also essential to do everything we can to maintain and support healthy brain function as the years pass by. With the current absence of effective treatment options for most neurological diseases, prevention really is the best treatment for them, and it’s never too early — or too late — to start. Edward Park, PhD, explains what to know about normal and abnormal brain aging, as well as the lifestyle strategies we have control over to support our brain health and help reduce the risk of decline and disease.

PUMPING IRONY: It’s Your Move

The Lessons Our Moms Teach Us

How to Establish Healthy Boundaries With Grandparents

The Hidden Costs of Family Caregiving

PUMPING IRONY: Operating Principles

Mia Huynh’s Success Story

PUMPING IRONY: The Postmortem Muddle

Why ARORA?
Becoming a grandparent, caring for aging parents, getting unfavorable health news, not moving the ways you used to — there are several points in our lives, especially when we get older, when age becomes a front-of-mind topic. To support older adults who want to be healthy and fit as they age, Life Time created the ARORA program. The co-founder, Renée Main, joins us in this mini episode to talk about its genesis and all that it offers to members.

Coping With Ambiguous Loss

PUMPING IRONY: A Formula for Frailty

PUMPING IRONY: Home Healthcare Shakeup: Palliative or Predatory?

PUMPING IRONY: Surveillance State

PUMPING IRONY: A Man Without a Plan

PUMPING IRONY: Headed for a Fall

PUMPING IRONY: Your Place or Mine?

The Good-Death Movement

PUMPING IRONY: An ER for the Elderly

The Talk You Haven’t Had: End-of-Life Planning

5 Tips to Become a Better Listener
