The Art 2 Aging

Dave McCaughan has made frequent appearances on The Art 2 Aging; he is an experienced marketer with decades of real, “in the trenches” marketing expertise and he has made the issue of marketing to an aging population a kind of mission for the past three decades. Today, he provides another thought-provoking Point of View in which he talks about how demographers have known for decades that the world...

I can’t remember how we first heard about Fred Woolman but I knew it was imperative to have him as a guest on The Art 2 Aging. That was more than a year ago; at the time, Fred was a full time fitness instructor at a nearby facility in his hometown of Rochester, Minnesota, 125 LIVE, where he was conducting fitness classes and personal training three times a week . At the age of 83. He’s still at it...

Last May, The Art 2 Aging had the pleasure of talking with Mike Drak about his commitment to regain his health. Mike is a 70 year old man who lives just north of Toronto. His sedentary lifestyle had resulted in large weight gains and he was determined to lose as much of it as he could before August 3. That’s when he would enter a triathlon competition in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. Here’s the l...

Every week, thousands of readers enjoy the musings about aging that can be found on Crow’s Feet. The best way to describe Crow’s Feet is to think of it as a gathering place or compendium of content about growing older that flows from the minds of hundreds of different writers every month. Nancy Peckenham oversees the content, editing and publishing the works of her writers and leaning on her forme...

Wayne Lehrer is a guy who thinks deeply. About life. About his role in the world. About what he can bring to others that is inspiring and supportive. In this week’s POV, Wayne talks about “oxygen” – the thing that inspires each of us to make a contribution – and why it’s important that we locate it within ourselves each day. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...

Statistics tell us that as we get older, we become more prone to falls. Whether from tripping over something like a curb on the street or the dog at home, once we get past age 65, balance starts to become an issue. But some incredible technology with bullet proof evidence that it works is being utilized by an Israeli company called Gait Better . They’ve taken the technology and applied it in real...

Artificial intelligence. AI, as we know it, more familiarly. Everyone is talking about AI and how it’s going to change just about everything. Which has many of us worried about just how and how much it’s going to change everything. Should we fear it? Plunge ahead and embrace it, come hell or high water? Regular POV contributor, Dave McCaughan, has his own take on AI. And, as usual, he makes a hell...

We have had a number of guests on The Art 2 Aging who have spoken out about ageism in the workplace and how its insidious nature prevents qualified older adults from re-entering a job market that believes if you’re over 50 or 60 you’re irrelevant. This week, thanks to our powerhouse guest, Loren Greiff, we tackle the problem from the point of view of the job seeker. What does an executive with 30...

As someone once famously said, “everything is related.” When it comes to our bodies, that couldn’t be more true. This week on POV, yoga expert instructor, Janine Agoglia who writes Yoga Living 50 And Beyond on Substack, talks about how movement is vital in our lives. Without movement, our bodies will stiffen up which, in turn, will affect our emotional wellbeing and then our mental state of mind....

Ever wonder about how social policy - especially healthcare policy- is created? It’s not something that many people consider because social policy just is . However, the story behind healthcare policy, social security, meeting the needs of the older population, feeding the poor – is far more complex and downright complicated than you would ever consider. Our guest this week is Erin Maruzella and s...

Regular contributor, Dave McCaughan, joins us this week for his POV on how to keep life interesting during retirement or, really, at any time in our lives. Dave is a former ad executive with McCann in Australia who has turned his attention to examining and commenting on retirement – something that has led him to very interesting observations about living in our later years. This is a public episod...

Every so often, we come across someone who is ripping up the rule book on aging. And we know we have to get them on the show. Our guest this week is a 70 year old man named Mike Drak. Mike lives just north of Toronto. And he decided a few months ago that he wanted to lose a lot of weight, regain his health and keep it that way. So, he committed to competing in a full triathlon in early August and...

AI is all anyone seems to talk about, these days. And with good reason. It’s going to have an enormous impact everywhere and on everything. This is especially true when it comes to devices designed for an aging population, something we can refer to as Age-Tech. Think of Age-Tech as the intersection of an aging population and technology. This week on POV, Ezra Schwartz presents a trust-based framew...

Millions of people around the world practice yoga. It’s an ancient form of exercise, originating in India more than 5 thousand years ago. Used to be that you had to physically attend a yoga class to receive instruction but the combination of online technology and the pandemic has produced numerous ways to hit the mat, as they say, from the comfort of your own living room. One of the best newslette...

May 1st kicked off a unique and very special social media campaign that runs until the end of the month. It’s called Flip the Script and it’s the brainchild of a group of volunteers led by Janine Vanderburg. Janine is CEO of Encore Roadmap and her mission - one she has chosen to accept - is to tear down the old walls of prejudice surrounding aging. Flip the Script intends to destroy the outdated n...

Flip the Script is a social media campaign that has kicked off and runs through the month of May. It’s the brainchild of a group of volunteers led by Janine Vanderburg , CEO of Encore Roadmap and founder of Changing the Narrative. Janine returns to The Art 2 Aging this week where she talks about three key scripts that need to be flipped in favour of older adults and why it’s even more urgent today...

When we tell ourselves we will not give in to the vagaries of aging, are we doing ourselves any favors? Our guest this week on POV is Wayne Lehrer, author of The Art of Conscious Aging . Wayne holds that in order for us to really live consciously, we need to fully recognize where we are at any given moment. If we’re 75, we need to accept that our bodies may feel 75 and build from that point forwar...

Clinical hypnosis is recognized as a valuable tool in psychotherapy. People have quit smoking or rid themselves of anxieties after hypnosis sessions under the guidance of a trained clinical hypnotherapist. Our guest on The Art 2 Aging this week has vast experience in clinical hypnosis and has helped thousands of patients over his 30 years in practice. Flavio Iammarino has unique views on how the h...

The American Society on Aging is hosting its annual conference this week in Orlando, Florida. An enormous spotlight will shine on ageism – the stereotypes, discrimination, and outright prejudice that surrounds what is nothing more than a number. Nowhere is this ugliness more prevalent than in the workplace and the source of the ugliness rests largely with employers. This week on POV, Janine Vander...

Our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging is journalist, Peter Bowes, who is the Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Peter is also the host and creator of a podcast series called Live Long and Master Aging . For the past eight years, he has interviewed top scientists who are working in the field of aging. What he has learned about breakthroughs in healthy aging i...

One of our subscribers, Fred Woolman, is featured this week on POV. Fred lives in Rochester, Minnesota. He’s 82 years old and a full-time fitness instructor. He’s also a passionate American who is deeply angered and disturbed by the words and actions of his President. This is Fred’s Point Of View. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

There is plenty of discussion these days around AI and its new sibling, AGI – short for artificial general intelligence. Some are concerned about the so far unchecked power of AI while others are touting AI’s abilities to do far more than humans can do, do it far better and far faster. Here’s an example. AI could soon replace your family doctor and maybe your specialists as well. And this will hav...

Veteran marketing executive, Dave McCaughan , returns this week on POV with his thoughts on why we want to continue working beyond 65 and even beyond 70. He explains the reasons for it and offers up evidence contained in several global surveys to back up his views. A 6 minute listen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...

All around the world today, there are more and more signs of people taking matters into their own hands and no longer waiting for governments to step in – matters like community health, outreach for the homeless, local help for those older adults who are – not aging at home but living at home, as our guest puts it. Debbie Howard was a fulltime caregiver for her mother and that inspired her to crea...

This week on POV: How To Create An Anti-Bucket List. Wait, what?? Janine Vanderburg , founder of Changing the Narrative and the Encore Roadmap , suggests that, in addition to what we would love to do in life, we should also create a list of what we don’t want to do again. If we have a finite lifespan, why not fill it with what we want and leave out what we don’t! This is a 5-minute listen. This is...