Episode 118: Power of the Podcast: This Is Getting Old

38 min listen

Addressing Barriers to Healthcare

The Commonwealth Fund’s 2024 report found that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than their peers in other nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers through a new, growing medium: podcasting.

Discovering the Power of Podcasting

In our Power of the Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care solutions, offering patients and the public vital, practical, and trusted information while also providing healthcare colleagues tools to improve education and care delivery. Podcasting allows nurses to bridge gaps in education, care availability, and professional development, while fostering better health outcomes and stronger communities.

Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World

In this last episode of our three-part series, geriatric nurse practitioner Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, guides us in exploring aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and moving towards an age-friendly world. Did you know that by 2030 there will be more older adults than children on the planet for the first time in human history? Through her podcast This is Getting Old: Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World, Melissa is helping to build a global community of informed caregivers. She covers a wide range of age-related topics including navigating healthcare, understanding technology, and evaluating social services and policy, and very practical matters like caregiving and managing dementia. Through interviews with experts, professionals, and individuals with firsthand experiences, we gain insight into the current state of aging and explore potential solutions so that we can all look forward to aging well.

About See You Now Podcast

See You Now is a podcast highlighting the innovative and human centered solutions that nurses are coming up with to solve for today’s most challenging, healthcare problems, created in collaboration with Johnson and Johnson and the American Nurses Association and hosted by nurse, economist and health tech specialist, Shawna Butler.

Resources

• This Is Getting Old: Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World podcast
• National Council on Aging
• Justice in Aging
• Geriatric Nursing and Aging
• Ageing and Health | WHO International
• Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers
• Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System
• Share of unpaid family caregiver residents in the U.S. 2021, by state
• Chronic Understaffing In Nursing Homes And The Impacts On Healthcare - NurseJournal.org
• The US Elder Workforce is Falling Further Behind | Nature
• Long Term Care and Skilled Nursing Facilities - PMC
• State Of The Sector: Nursing Home Labor Staffing Shortages Persist Despite Unprecedented Efforts To Attract More Staff
• New AARP Report Finds Family Caregivers Provide $600 Billion in Unpaid Care Across the U.S.
• https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/elcare.pdf
• Alzheimer/dementia caregivers unpaid care U.S. 2011-2023 | Statista
• Social Media in Health Care
• The power of podcasts: Exploring the endless possibilities of audio education and information in medicine, healthcare epidemiology, and antimicrobial stewardship - PMC
• Development of Podcasts in a Hospital Setting: A User-Centered Approach
• Why today's healthcare workers love podcasts | Wolters Kluwer
• Why Hospitals Should Invest in Healthcare Podcasting - ModPod