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Back to SearchJoan Harmsen: Helping Others and Having Fun
Season 4 Episode 180
At age 97, Joan Harmsen still thrives on helping others make life more meaningful and fun. As a young war bride, Joan traded the paradise-like enviro…
3 years, 9 months ago
Lois Wagh Aronstein: A Lifetime Spent Connecting Older People to Opportunities that Retain Independence and Showcase their Value
Season 4 Episode 179
Lois Wagh Aronstein has advocated for older people the majority of her career. First, when she initiated Project Reward through the Framingham Chambe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Phyllis Walden: Learning for Life in a Complex World
Season 4 Episode 178
For Phyllis Walden, life experiences offer abundant opportunities for learning. Reading The Second Sex near completion of her doctoral program in Ph…
3 years, 9 months ago
Jane Llewellyn: Cancer Survivor Innovates Nursing and Travels the World
Season 4 Episode 177
At age 65, Jane Llewellyn (PHD, RN) decided to retire from her rewarding and demanding positions as Vice President of Nursing and as Associate Dean o…
3 years, 10 months ago
Lily Liu: Role Model to 1,000s of Children and Adults during her 40-year Agency Career
Season 4 Episode 176
Ever since she came to the United States from Kobe, Japan, at 10, Lily Liu has devoted herself to living up to the role models she found in her grand…
3 years, 10 months ago
Martha Hansen: Actor, Writer, Producer Launches 1st Play
Season 4 Episode 175
Martha Hansen knows what it’s like to age. What she didn’t know was that 7 Days at Sea would be the first play she wrote and self-produced. Or that i…
3 years, 10 months ago
Stephanie Raffleock: Rewriting the Narrative About Aging Women
Season 4 Episode 174
As a child of the 1960s drug culture, Stephanie Raffelock dropped out of high school. Her return to formal education in her mid-thirties opened the d…
3 years, 10 months ago
Katharine Esty: One Psychologist's Study Reveals the 80s is a Time of Unexpected Happiness
Season 4 Episode 173
Dr. Katharine Esty’s husband was seriously ill when she turned 80. It put her in a funk. Even hiking with her family, an ordinary event, sent her dee…
3 years, 10 months ago
Vicki Thomas: Purpose-Driven Business Woman: In this World to do Good
Season 4 Episode 172
Vicki Thomas, 76 is a life-long journalist, producer, writer and purpose-driven business woman.
She started her career as a media writer for a multi-s…
3 years, 11 months ago
Joyce Sutphen: Using Words to Find My Way
Season 4 Episode 171
In recognition of National Poetry Month, we bring you Joyce Sutphen.
Joyce Sutphen discusses her love of teaching and writing poetry, her attachment t…
3 years, 11 months ago