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Wrinkle Radio
by Sally Chivers
Don't panic! It's just aging. At Wrinkle Radio, the stories we tell about aging matter. We don't fight aging, but we do fight the forces that make aging worse for some people than for others. We fight the forces that tell us that we need to grow old in a certain way. We fight the forces that tell us we have to fear aging. Join host Dr. Sally Chivers as we learn and celebrate along the way.
Episodes
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Back To School!
Intergenerational can be little more than a buzzword slapped onto feel-good, one-and-done programming, but meaningful intergenerationality can change how we live and thrive. In this episode of Wrinkle Radio, host Dr. Sally Chivers goes back to school with Dr. Elizabeth Russell, Associate…
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Hot Flashes & Brain Frog
Menopause gets funny, furious, and deeply honest, sometimes all in the same sentence. Dr. Sally Chivers talks with poet and professor Susan Holbrook about Steamy: A Menopause Symptomology, her raucous feminist book organized not by chapters, but by symptoms. Hot flashes. Burning mouth syndrome....
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That's the limit!
What happens when care becomes too much? In this episode, Professor Janna Klostermann talks about her new book At the Limits of Care. She tells host Dr. Sally Chivers what she learned from women who’ve stepped back from care work. Find out what their exits reveal about the structures that shape…
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It All Threads Through
Cree social worker and scholar Deborah Young shows how the stories we tell about aging matter. She describes beading circles as sites for activism and community. By beading, her university students learn about authenticity and reciprocity, especially through storytelling. In conversation with…
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What Algorithms Do
Algorithms don't have to be ageist, but they often are. They influence financial decisions, insurance, and healthcare systems. They can amplify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. Potentially helpful or harmful AI tools infiltrate our digital lives, whether we know it or not, and...
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My stove isn’t my stove anymore
What does it mean to age in a digital world? In this episode, Professor Kim Sawchuk challenges the assumption that older adults are hesitant users of digital technology. She tells host Professor Sally Chivers about the conundrums posed by continual changes to digital media and how older adults...
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Thanks! It’s the Botox.
How did Botox go from terrifying neurotoxin to casual cosmetic treatment? What does that mean for how we think of signs of aging on our bodies? In this episode, host Professor Sally Chivers talks about her evolving personal relationship with Botox, which prompted her to learn more about its...
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Getting Friendly with Death
Why should we get friendly with death? Dying is inevitably, if ironically, part of life. How can we better support each other, and ourselves, through grief? Death-friendly communities would combine the potential behind compassionate communities with the power of the age-friendly movement.…
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Boomers who Rock
Sixty years ago, The Beatles played to screaming throngs on the Ed Sullivan show. Their youthful optimism offered a new blueprint for the future to Boomer kids crowded around their television sets. Since then, Professor Stephen Katz, sociologist and drummer, has gone from playing on a makeshift…
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Talkin’ ‘bout my generation
Organic gardening, vegan diets, natural childbirth, the peace movement … OK, boomers, you’d never know it from meme-land, but we have a lot to thank you for. How has the first generation to grow up with rock music as their cultural heartbeat changed how we experience aging? Professor Stephen Katz...
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Dignity and Joy
Joy is possible, even more likely, as we age. But can joy really be a cultivated in nursing home life and work? Why should we take care home joy seriously? In this episode, Professor Susan Braedley explains how the conditions of dignity are the conditions for joy. She offers practical tips on how...
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The Future of Nursing Homes
Nursing homes are fast becoming the haunted houses of our era. But Professor Susan Braedley sees the potential for nursing homes to be vital public services where people want to live, work, and even play. She talks to host Sally Chivers about how the conditions of work are the conditions of care....
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Information Piles and Palaces
Someone you love is diagnosed with dementia. Or you are. Do you know where to get good information? Do you know who to ask? Host Professor Sally Chivers sits down with Professor Nicole Dalmer to get some answers. Find out why Sally renewed her lapsed public library card, how to get informed about...
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Sex, Tech, and the Meaning of Aging, mostly tech
When you think of tech for older adults, what comes to mind? What you just pictured says as much about the world you live in and attitudes towards aging as it does about how technology might create better lives for all of us living in an aging world. Professor Emeritus Barb Marshall talks with…
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Sex, Tech, and the Meaning of Aging, mostly sex
Would you rather have the sex you had when you were 18, or still enjoy sex at 80? How did Viagra change the meaning of aging? Learn about andropause, clitoral insufficiency syndrome, and other maladies made up to market pills and make people feel bad about growing older. Wrinkle Radio gets a…
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Aging for Mortals
What if we started from the knowledge that, no matter what, we will die? And that if we're lucky, we'll grow old first? How would that change how we live? How would that change our politics? Professor Albert Banerjee shares what he's learned from talking to people in hospice and living in a yogic...
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Putting Age in its Place
Where do you want to live as you grow older? That’s a question for you, whether you’re 9 or 99. In this episode, we put aging in place, with the help of literature and the imagination. Host Sally Chivers and guest Ulla Kriebernegg talk about nursing home escape stories, Canadian Literature, King...
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Age Panic
What scares you about aging? We can’t fight the forces that make us fear aging until we take a closer look at what they are. In this episode, age panic and what we can start to do about it. Host Sally Chivers and guest Andrea Charise talk about long-term care, the silver tsunami, stories that...
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The Power of Greyscale
Lisa LaFlamme just might have gotten fired for it. Dana Capell resisted it, even during the pandemic. Andrea Charise shaved her head to do it boldly. I hoped it would bring some respect. What gray hair says about us and the aging world we live in. Host Sally Chivers and guests talk about the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Don't panic! It's just aging. At Wrinkle Radio, the stories we tell about aging matter. We don't fight aging, but we do fight the forces that make aging worse for some people than for others. We fight the forces that tell us that we need to grow old in a certain way. We fight the forces that tell us we have to fear aging. Join host Dr. Sally Chivers as we learn and celebrate along the way.
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Sally Chivers
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Wrinkle Radio currently has 19 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Don't panic! It's just aging. At Wrinkle Radio, the stories we tell about aging matter. We don't fight aging, but we do fight the forces that make aging worse for some people than for others. We fight the forces that tell us that we need to grow old in a certain way. We fight the forces that tell...
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Wrinkle Radio is created and hosted by Sally Chivers.
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