In this episode, we will meet Susan McFadden, author of Dementia Friendly Communities: Why We Need Them and How We Can Create Them.  Susan shares her years of research in how communities in England and the U.S. have made life more manageable for persons with dementia, and their caregivers.  She shares many stories about strategies that work, how better to cope with this diagnosis, and how her community in Fox Valley, Wisconsin has adapted to better serve the needs of persons with dementia.  We also talked with her husband John, about how they have pioneered a concept they call, Memory Camp.

Palliative care is a team approach to supporting patients with serious illness.  In this episode, we meet Dr. Stacie Levine, who is the founder of the palliative care program at the University of Chicago Medical Center.  Dr. Levine explains the importance of palliative care in helping patients and their families cope with the the symptoms and emotional impact of serious or terminal illness.

How likely is it that you will need long term care in your future?  What are the factors that you need to take into consideration?  In this episode, we talk to Dr. Robert Applebaum, who is the Director of the Long Term Care Research Project, at the Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University.  Dr. Applebaum talks about how long term care has changed, what the options are, and what are the issues to consider about covering the cost.