The Well Aged Podcast, hosted by Ralph Milton (a "seriously old geezer"), shares the good and the bad of being old, really old! The joy and the pain of it. It's about getting the most out of those platinum years.
This podcast will help the "truly old" tell stories and share insights and ideas to help deal with the crud and enjoy all the blessings. It will also help their kids and the army of caregivers. As Ralph says, "they come every day to give us baths and help us dress and make sure we take our meds. They need to know what it's like to be old.”
"I don't have a lot of wise words to give you about death. It's a journey we all face but find it hard to talk about. The wisdom that I have... is found within some stories that I will tell you. And these are stories about deaths that I've witnessed, and which I found inspiring." - Ralph Milton
28 Jan 2022
Leaving a Legacy
Because time seems to gallop along, we realize our last day could be tomorrow. And that is why we need to get busy and do a few things that need taking care of...
19 Jan 2022
Dementia
This episode of the Well Aged Podcast talks about holding onto what's good and true.
11 Jan 2022
Longevity
Ralph Milton talks about adding years to your life and life your years
30 Dec 2021
Sexuality
Ralph Milton talks about sex; he starts with a story about a church service and some hymn singing.
21 Dec 2021
Loneliness
Ralph Milton discusses the most terrible poverty of loneliness and the power of presence.
16 Dec 2021
Staying Healthy
Ralph Milton discusses pills, self-care, pain and incontinence...and how to manage the physical and phycological aspects of getting help.
7 Dec 2021
Home, Sweet Home
In this episode of the Well Aged Podcast, Ralph Milton reflects on the search for a place to be.
1 Dec 2021
Food and Friendship
In this episode of the Well Aged Podcast, Ralph Milton talks about nutrition for the body and the soul.
25 Nov 2021
Enjoying Age as Grandparents
In episode three of the Well Aged Podcast, Ralph Milton talks about love, grace, grandparenting... and flatulence.
16 Nov 2021
Aging and Sage-ing: Who am I, now that I’m old?
Why is it that we invest so much of our identity, our sense of who we are, in our jobs? In the work we do?
And what happens when we don't do it anymore?
Getting old provokes a basic conflict we all carry in our guts. We define ourselves by what we used to do.
Now that we can’t do that anymore, who are we?
1 Oct 2021
Introducing the Well Aged Podcast
Ralph Milton, a "seriously old geezer," introduces the Well Aged Podcast, which is primarily geared toward other "very old” people. Those that are so old they might not know what a podcast even is, but they remember those old radio soap operas that were referred to as "broadcasts." Ralph was an actor in some of the worst of them (boy, were they awful!).
Now, more than half a century later, Ralph is doing a podcast, which is just another word for a broadcast, except you get it on the world wide web. And this podcast about being old. It all comes his book on the same subject called Well Aged: Making the Most of Your Platinum Years (https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771623100).
The Well Aged Podcast shares the good and the bad of being old, the joy and the pain of it. It's about getting the most out of those platinum years.
Old age is not for sissies, they say, which is true of course. Old age comes with a load of crud, but also a barrel of blessings.
This podcast will help the "truly old" tell stories and share insights and ideas to help deal with the crud and enjoy all the blessings.
It is for those in the old, old category, but it is also for their kids and the army of caregivers that come every day to, as Ralph says, "give us baths and help us dress and make sure we take our meds. They need to know what it's like to be old.”
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