Category — Business of Aging

For this week’s show we speak with Kathy Dragon, CEO of TravelDragon.com, owner of The Dragon’s Path, & VP of Dragon Consulting Inc. Kathy has spent the past two decades in the center of the active, adventure and sustainable travel industry. As a tour operator and guide she has personally escorted over 3000 guests on small group tours around the globe and created programs in conjunction with local guides and properties. Kathy is a frequent international speaker and consultant in the travel industry specifically focusing on authentic/responsible travel and the influence of the Boomer & Beyond market…those who expect and are willing to invest in this new type of travel. A contributing author of BOOM: Marketing to the Ultimate Power Consumer—The Baby Boomer Woman, Kathy is a frequent speaker and creator of content for industry blogs, newsletters, podcasts and articles.

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For this week’s show, The Business of… Brain Fitness, we have guest Henry Mahncke, CEO of Posit Science, the leader in clinically proven brain fitness software. Their software is scientific brain training designed to improve memory and cognitive skills.

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For this week’s show, The Business of… Assistive Listening Devices for Older Consumers, we have guest Michele Ahlman, President of ClearSounds Communications, a Chicago-based privately held company that provides high-quality sound enhancing products for the boomer, senior and caregivers market. As a leading provider of niche telephone and communication products, ClearSounds is the leading manufacturer and distributor of ClearSounds branded products including amplified phones, signaling devices, TV listening systems, clocks, audio accessories and cellular products.

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For this week’s show, The Business of…Learning in Later Life, we spoke with Susan Hoffman, director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at University of California – Berkeley. We discuss the programs available to continue learning throughout life, and the proliferation of OLLIs (Osher lifelong learning institutes).

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It is the first show of our second season! For it we spoke with guest Jeffrey DeMure, an architect and founder of Jeffrey DeMure & Associates (J D + A).

For more than 20 years, he has been focused on residential and mixed use architecture and land planning throughout the United States. He and his team are responsible for some of the most forward-thinking planning and designs for housing the aging population.

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For our second show of the season we spoke with guest Jeff Rosenfeld, co-author of the new book Unassisted Living: Ageless Homes for Later Life.

Jeff is a PhD and director of the Gerontology program and the Gerontology Center at Hofstra University. He has a long-time interest in the interplay between aging and home design. Unassisted Living is his second book in collaboration with Wid Chapman, the interior design program chair at Parsons School of Design. The book is a visual feast! I don’t think I’ve seen any book that acknowledges the spirit of t baby boomer generation and how we actually want to live as we age. On our program Jeff explains the concept.

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We have just completed our first block of episodes for The Business of Aging on WGRN (WeEarth Global Radio Network) and I wanted to say “Thank you” to all my guests, the team: Allan, Kat, Nick and Judy, and my Continuum Crew team. These last couple of months have enabled me to get back to my radio roots (so much fun!) and have some of the most insightful and inspiring conversations around the implications to businesses of an aging population.

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The thirteenth show, The Business of…Senior Living & Memory Care, we have guest Stephen Winner, co-founder of Silverado Senior Living and their “chief culture officer”, and co-author of the Silverado Story – a beautiful book about what he and his co-founders have created for people with Alzheimers and other memory impairments.

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The twelfth show, The Business of… Assisted Living, we have guest Sally Michael is the president of the California Assisted Living Association (CALA). She joined CALA in 2000 and has over 20 years experience in not-for-profit association management. She is responsible for CALA’s day-to-day operations, implementation of the association’s strategic plan and provides oversight to all policy and programming functions. Sally works closely with CALA’s board of directors to assure the assisted living environment continues to offer residents and their family members the benefits of resident-centered, personalized care.

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The eleventh show, The Business of…Technology Serving Elders, we have guest David Inns, President & CEO, GreatCall, Inc., creator of Jitterbug cell phone and a leader in wireless services focused on helping customers stay connected, safe and healthy.

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