At Home, On Air

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 h...

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 neighborhoo...

At Home, On Air | Podcast Episode 53: Why Nature Matters: The Impact of the Natural World on Our Health and Longevity In this episode, host Susanne Stadler, architect and AHWGO Executive Director, welcomes Susan Rodiek, Ph. D. — architect, researcher, author and Professor Emerita with the Center for Health Systems & Design School of Architecture at Texas A&M University — for a discussion on how co...

In this episode, host Susanne Stadler, architect and AHWGO Executive Director, welcomes Lydia Bransten, Executive Director of The Gubbio Project, for a compelling conversation about building community through compassion and sanctuary. The Gubbio Project is a pioneering daytime shelter housed in St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco's Mission District. Since its founding, Gubbio has offer...

At Home, On Air Podcast Episode 51 | People First: Creating Spaces Without Walls In this episode of our podcast, we welcome Nichole Battle, the CEO of the Govans Ecumenical Development Corporation (GEDCO). In this compelling conversation, hosted by architect and AHWGO Executive Director Susanne Stadler, we explore the profound connection between affordable housing and community vitality. “What if...

On our podcast – At Home, On Air – we welcome Jennie Chin Hansen, the immediate past CEO of the American Geriatrics Society, former President of AARP, previous Executive Director of On Lok, and a longtime community advocate. In this forward-looking conversation, Jennie draws from her lifelong career in the field of aging as well as her own personal aging journey. She discusses the strength that co...

This episode of the At Home, On Air podcast, is an archived conversation from May 2020. In honor of Disability Pride Month, we're bringing you this engaging conversation: "Moving Toward Pride: What an Anti-Ageism Movement Can Learn from Disability Pride." Our guest speakers are two amazing women, each a thought leader and movement builder — Ashton Applewhite is a writer, anti-ageism expert, and au...

On our podcast – At Home, On Air – we continue our mini-series, Changemaker Interviews, where we highlight the impact of changemakers on the quality of our lives. These individuals have challenged and changed systems, introduced new ways of thinking and told previously untold stories. In the fifth installment of the series, we welcome Betty Reid Soskin’s granddaughter Alyana Reid and filmmaker Bry...

"Stay curious. That is a longevity strategy. Stay curious about your surroundings, about the world, about yourself. Stay curious." - Patrick Roden On our podcast – At Home, On Air – we continue our mini-series, Changemaker Interviews, where we highlight the impact of changemakers on the quality of our lives. These individuals have challenged and changed systems, introduced new ways of thinking and...

On our podcast – At Home, On Air – we continue our mini-series, Changemaker Interviews, where we highlight the impact of changemakers on the quality of our lives. These individuals have challenged and changed systems, introduced new ways of thinking and told previously untold stories. In this third installment of the series, we welcome author and climate activist, Harry “Rick” Moody. We discuss hi...

On our podcast – At Home, On Air – we continue our mini-series, Changemaker Interviews, where we highlight the impact of changemakers on the quality of our lives. These individuals have challenged and changed systems, introduced new ways of thinking and told previously untold stories. In this second installment of the series, we welcome Valerie Fletcher, the Executive Director of the Institute for...

Welcome to 'At Home, On Air' and our new mini-series, Changemaker Interviews – where we spotlight individuals who make a difference in our lives by telling untold stories, thinking differently, and caring deeply for others. In this special edition, we bring you highlights from conversations with three exceptional women: Katy Butler, whose work empowers us to consider alternatives to medicalized en...

Join us as we discuss, Designing Across the Lifespan: 30 Years of Teaching and Enhancing Inclusive Design Values and Benefits, with Ricardo Gomes, a professor in the School of Design at San Francisco State University. In this episode, we delve into Professor Ricardo Gomes’ 30+ year journey in teaching design empathy to students. Discover how his pioneering work in educating designers in inclusive...

Join us as we discuss, The Surprising Power of Everyday Spaces for Our Health and Wellbeing, with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, a photographer, urbanist, author, and the co-founder of Buscada, an interdisciplinary studio to promote more just cities. In this episode, we delve into the often-overlooked impact of everyday places on our health and wellbeing. Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani’s recent book, The Cit...

Join us as we discuss breaking down aging and dementia stereotypes in everyday life through creative engagement with Rowena Richie, an interdisciplinary artist working with people living with neurodiversity and dementia and the co-founder of the performance and social practice group, For You. Rowena Richie’s interactive projects engage people through art making, body dynamics and celebratory event...

Join us as we discuss “Renewment” with Helen Dennis, co-founder of Project Renewment, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer on aging and retirement. Renewment is a made-up word; a combination of retirement and renewal. Established in 1999, Renewment is a movement of mid- to later-life career women, who are using their drive, energy and talent used in the workplace to create their next life ch...

This episode of At Home, On Air features an archived conversation with Louis Tenenbaum from April of 2020, our first-ever online forum. Louis is a leading advocate for aging in place and the founder of HomesRenewed. Hosted by Marcie Rogo, the discussion dives into Louis' journey from carpenter to a prominent figure on aging-friendly home design. They explore the evolution of the aging in place con...

Join us as we discuss, At Home in the Kitchen: A Spice Box for Healthy Aging with Dr. Linda Shiue, MD, physician, chef, author, professor, founder of Thrive Kitchen, and the Director of Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. In this episode, Dr. Shiue discusses her work at the nexus of food and medicine and offers suggestions for establishing a conscientious d...

Join us as we discuss Healthy Cities: How our homes and neighborhoods support individual and community health across generations, with Dr. Mindy Fullilove, a renowned social psychiatrist, author, and a professor at The New School in New York. Dr. Fullilove has dedicated her long academic career to the intricate human relationship to place and the health effects on individuals and communities resul...

Join us as we discuss, At Home in the City: Inviting Connections and Community in Public Space, with Walter Hood, an Oakland-based, internationally renowned landscape designer, artist, educator and MacArthur Fellow. In this conversation with Walter Hood, we delve into the design of urban environments and opportunities for intergenerational connections. The focus of Hood’s work is the public realm...

Join us as we discuss ‘Artists in Residence: Connecting Generations through Street Stories’ with Laura Nova, a visionary artist, activist and creative force based in NYC. In this thought-provoking conversation with Laura Nova, we explore how Laura’s artistic vision goes beyond aesthetics – boosting health and spreading delight throughout her city and neighborhood. Delve into the extraordinary worl...

Join us as we discuss ‘The Body as Home: Exploring the Experience of Aging’ with Joe Goode, a globally acclaimed choreographer, writer and the artistic director of the Joe Goode Performance Group. In this conversation with Joe Goode, we discuss how, through his work, Joe is challenging the predominant narratives of aging and the fearfulness that accompanies the inevitable demise of the physical bo...

Join us as we discuss ‘We Are All Neighbors In One Big Community: The effect of the affordable housing crisis on living and aging in the Bay Area’ with Karen Nemsick, the Director of the Housing Justice Initiative with United Way Bay Area. Karen Nemsick has led several housing initiatives in the Bay Area to support low-income households. In this conversation, she draws from her more than 10-year t...

Join us as we discuss, ‘Wildness’ in Healthy Aging: The significance of the relationship to land/place for healthy aging in the Black community, with Mistinguette Smith, writer and founder of the Black/Land Project. She shares, “For Black people, resourcefulness, resilience and regeneration are rooted in their relationships to urban land, and place.” In this conversation with Mistinguette Smith, w...

Join us for a special edition of At Home, On Air from At Home With Growing Older's fourth annual agein on Saturday, June 17th, 2023 on the topic of, Creature Comforts: The Human-Animal Bond in Healthy Aging. Together, we’ll explore different modes of animal-human relations and how our society, our homes and cities can support them. In our complicated modern world, animals have always come to our r...