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In this week’s episode of Your Health Matters, I share about the misconceptions in the aging process. I interviewed my good friend, Dr. Rory English, who is an expert in this area.
Tune in so you can be enlightened as to aging and geriatrics. Geriatrics, or geriatric medicine, is a specialty that focuses on the health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. With physical therapy, negative notions about the aging process are overcome.
Questions in relation to this will be answered in this podcast.
In this episode we discuss:
[1:50] What got Dr. Rory English into geriatrics
[4:40] Dr. Jackie Fenton on her experience with geriatrics
[5:18] Dr. Rory English on extra emotional baggage when working with older adults
[6:40] Dr. Jackie Fenton and Dr. Rory English on older adults having an impression that they cannot do certain things as they age
[7:50] Dr. Rory English on adding quality to people’s lives not just years
[9:33] Dr. Rory on things he focuses on when working with the older population
[18:00] Dr. Jackie Fenton and Dr. Rory English on people having meaningful goals, how to motivate them
[20:10] Dr. Jackie Fenton and Dr. Rory English on reflecting on the way older people think about the world
[23:43] Dr. Rory English on what he wants younger people to know about the geriatric population as they care for their parents, grandparents
[29:36] Dr. Rory English on his experience with working with Medicare
[33:17] Dr. Jackie Fenton and Dr. Rory English on the relationship between insurance and clinicians and how patients can advocate for it, too
[38:12] Dr. Jackie Fenton and Dr. Rory English on how the qualities of life of people are better through physical therapy programs
[40:00] Dr. Rory English on the one thing he wants to change in health care