The doctors who specialize in aging are trying to tell us something and most of us aren't listening yet.
The Aging Forward Podcast brings together some of the sharpest minds in geriatric medicine for the kind of conversations that usually only happen behind closed doors. Each episode, a UCLA geriatrician sits down with a specialist to unpack what aging actually looks like in the body, from memory loss and sleep disorders to weight loss drugs, hearing loss, and knowing when medicine does more harm than good.
This isn't a wellness podcast. It's a front-row seat to the science of getting older and why everything you think you know about it might be wrong.
One in four Medicare patients with dementia is receiving a medication that could make things significantly worse. Not because of negligence but because of a system that rewards doing more, not doing better. This conversation gets into the mechanics of that problem, and what it's actually going to take to fix it. Dr. David Ganz sits down with Dr. John Mafi, one of the country's leading researchers on unnecessary care in older adults. They cover why over treatment has been a documented problem ...
22 Aug 2026
The Hidden Cost of GLP-1 No One Is Talking About
Most people starting GLP-1 therapy are focused on one number: the weight on the scale. But for adults over 50, what's happening beneath that number may be more important and more dangerous than anyone warned them about. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Mulroy sits down with Dr. Zhaoping Li, a clinical nutrition specialist at UCLA Health, to break down what GLP-1 therapies actually do to the aging body the muscle loss, the regain risk, the mood changes, and why the goal was never just a lowe...
11 Aug 2026
What Dizziness Is Actually Telling You & When to Take It Seriously
Most people think dizziness is simple. It's not. For millions of older adults, a dizzy spell can mean a dozen different things and the difference between the wrong diagnosis and the right one can be the difference between missing a stroke warning and catching it in time. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Mulroy sits down with vestibular and dizziness specialist Dr. Gail Ishiyama to decode one of medicine's most frustrating complaints. From the crystals in your inner ear to the imaging test most do...
24 Jul 2026
70 Million And The Fight Against Dementia
What if you could find out you were developing dementia 17 years before you had a single symptom? That's not science fiction anymore and the doctor who built one of the country's most replicated dementia care programs says what's coming for baby boomers should concern every single one of us. Dr. Cathy Lee sits down with Dr. David Reuben founding director of the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program, now operating across 34 health systems nationwide for a conversation about what's changed...
11 Jul 2026
The Social Disability That Doctors Keep Ignoring
Most people think of hearing loss as an inconvenience. What they don't realize is that untreated hearing loss quietly rewires how the brain processes information, pushes people out of conversations they once loved, and as new research is showing dramatically increases the risk of ending up back in the emergency room. In this episode, two geriatricians explore the hearing loss crisis hiding in plain sight: the patients who nod along in clinic visits without hearing half of what was said, the s...
24 Jun 2026
Revolutionary Breakthrough In Alzheimer’s Treatment
A new class of drugs can now remove the protein behind Alzheimer's disease from the brain. But it doesn't restore memory. It doesn't cure the disease. And not everyone qualifies. So what does it actually do and who is it for? Dr. David Reuben and Dr. Alejandra Sanchez Lopez walk through everything families and patients need to know before considering anti-amyloid therapy from eligibility criteria and side effect risks to what the clinical trial data really means in plain language....
10 Jun 2026
The Hidden Connection Between Poor Sleep and Cognitive Decline
Most people know sleep gets harder with age. What nobody tells you is that the sleep problems you're ignoring right now the insomnia, the restless nights, the medication you've been on for 20 years may be doing more damage than you think. In this episode, Dr. Arun Karlamanga sits down with Dr. Cathy Alessi, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Sleep Medicine at UCLA, to talk about what's actually happening with sleep in older adults and what clinicians and patients need to know but rarely hear...
27 May 2026
Managing the Behavioral & Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Most families navigating dementia know what memory loss looks like. What no one prepares them for are the behavioral and psychological symptoms the agitation, the refusals, the personality shifts that can make caregiving feel impossible. In this episode, Dr. Aaron Kaufman sits down with Kemi Reeves, DNP, Associate Director of the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program, to talk about what managing symptoms of dementia actually looks like in real families and what caregivers and clin...
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