At Home, On Air

About At Home, On Air

Our mission is to educate, inspire and connect people across generations and disciplines to re-envision and improve the experiences of later life.

Publisher

At Home With Growing Older

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2021

Latest episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

56 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Groundbreaking: The Unmapped Path of Women in the 20th Century & the Freedom They Claim in Older Age

   This conversation celebrates the groundbreaking work of women in the 20th century,  inspired and guided by the recent publication of Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother and Gardener — the sweeping autobiography of the late Clare Cooper Marcus. Clare was a pioneering figure in the nascent field of environmental psychology, whose work transformed how we understand the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Groundbreaking spans nine decades, moving from a wartime childhood in England through a distinguished academic career in the United States. It is a reflection on personal endurance, professional courage, and an unwavering belief in the healing power of nature — all rooted in her life's deepest passion: her garden. The autobiography was completed only weeks before Clare's death at age 91 in January of 2026. In this conversation with her close friend and publisher, Lynne Elizabeth of New Village Press, New York — an innovator in her own right — we reflect on what it meant to forge an unmapped path as a professional woman in the 20th century, and what Clare's life and work continue to teach us. Clare's story is also a reminder that freedom from professional life can become an intensely creative time — and that for women who spent decades breaking new ground, older age may be the most generative chapter of all. Episode Transcript: share.descript.com/view/MrKJN3esxxd Takeaway Resources: athomewithgrowingolder.org/2026/06/07/at-home-on-air-a-conversation-with-lynne-elizabeth/ At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air — a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants. Learn more, support our work, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org.

2. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Senior Women Living Together: A Canadian Grassroots Initiative

   At Home, On Air | Podcast Episode 55 Senior Women Living Together: A Canadian Grassroots Initiative In this episode, host Susanne Stadler, architect and AHWGO Executive Director, welcomes Pat Dunn, the Founder and Executive Director of Senior Women Living Together, an active grassroots non-profit corporation working to ensure that every senior woman has housing options that allow her to maintain her independence, autonomy and dignity. Pat is a former Public Health Nurse whose path to founding Senior Women Living Together was born out of personal hardship. After losing her husband suddenly in 2014, Pat found herself navigating widowhood, financial instability, and an affordable housing crisis that pushed her to the brink of homelessness by 2018. Unable to find safe, affordable shared housing options for senior women, Pat took matters into her own hands. In 2019, she launched a Facebook group to connect like-minded women — and within a year, over 1,700 members had joined, revealing just how widespread the crisis was. Drawing on her background in program development, Pat created a structured support system to help women find compatible homemates, and soon found stable, affordable housing for herself through the very community she built. “I had no idea there were so many senior women living in precarious housing situations and socially isolated. Now, I had a different problem … I needed to find a way to help them all, not just myself.” Driven by the stories of the women she met along the way, Pat transformed her grassroots group into a non-profit organization dedicated to helping senior women across Canada find safe, affordable, and companionable housing — turning her own lowest moment into a lifeline for thousands. Episode Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/CLn6UmNYRO4 Takeaway Resources: https://athomewithgrowingold.com/2026/05/22/at-home-on-air-a-conversation-with-pat-dunn/ At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air — a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants. Learn more, support our work, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org.

3. 

   19 Apr 2026

   Aging in Place: A Lifelong Practice

   In this episode, host Susanne Stadler, architect and AHWGO Executive Director, welcomes Stacy Torres, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the UCSF School of Nursing and author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America (2025) — for a discussion on the lifelong practice of aging in place. Stacy's interest in this topic is deeply personal. When the neighborhood café and bakery she called her "home away from home" in New York had to close, she followed the people — conducting a five-year ethnographic study tracing elderly regulars through loss, health setbacks, and the slow churn of a changing city. What she found was striking: "With many of the people I spent time with, going out was essential to their functioning, to their mental health, to their physical functioning." That insight shapes a bigger invitation — to rethink aging in place not as something that happens to us later, but as a lifelong practice of seeking out the spaces where we are recognized and belong. From a neighborhood bakery, a nearby park, to a public library, where do we go to linger, to become a "regular," to build intergenerational connections? As Stacy puts it: "The practice of finding your places and your people, wherever they may be, creating your webs of connections — it really does need to begin earlier." Join us as we explore what it takes, in our communities and ourselves, to build the social infrastructure that supports growing older together. Episode Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/qMEGRINF65o Takeaway Resources: https://athomewithgrowingold.com/2026/03/11/at-home-on-air-a-conversation-with-stacy-torres/ At Home With Growing Older is proud to host At Home, On Air — a radio hour offering connection, community and knowledge to our participants. Learn more, support our work, and register for the next LIVE episode of At Home, On Air: www.athomewithgrowingolder.org.

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