Retired...or ReWired?

10.  Intergenerational Issues: Getting involved:  organizations and options. Since 1997 Donna Butts has been Executive Director of Generations United, She began her career in Oregon as a youth worker with the Salem YWCA. She’s held leadership positions with Covenant House,... Read more

9.  Work and Volunteering: In this episode we discuss inding work and finding help with Elders in Action, and we talk about age discrimination with Jeannette Liardi, Barbara Bernstein, Executive Director, Elders in Action Overview of Elders in Action---the various programs... Read more

8.  Legal Issues:   Kateri Walsh, Public Affairs, Oregon Bar Assn Key issues:  will, power of attorney, living will. Publication is “Legal Issues for Older Adults.”  Available free on internet.on the Oregon Bar Association site.   Janay Haas, Oregon Bar Assn   Power of... Read more

7.  Financial Issues: How to plan for a low-income life-style. You may be seeing lots of ads on prime-time TV these days about the benefits of “reverse mortgages.”  In this episode KBOO interviews Rachel Mohlere,  a leading specialist who feels that this type of arrangemen... Read more

6.  Housing: The housing shortage; accessibility and planning.     Dr. Margaret Neal is the Director of the Institute on Aging of Portland State University…Her interests include nearly all the subjects we’re looking into in this series:  Designing age-friendly communitie... Read more

In this episode we speak with City Commissioner Nick Fish on "Portland:  Issues and Challenges." Where are we headed, where should we be going? Commissioner Nick Fish has been a proponent of interests of elderly population in Portland for your entire career here, from the ... Read more

We meet with Amber Kerns Johnson, Driector of the Hollywood Center, and learn about programs.  Or tour includes a discussion with the teachers of the ukelele and writing classes and a visit to the gift shop.  Read more

Dr. Mark Williams is  Board-certified in geriatric medicine and internal medicine.  He has a clinical practice in Wilmington, NC.  He’s Clinical Professor of Medicine, UNC and Professor Emeritus, UVA.  And he’s the author of a leading book on the medicine of aging,  The Art... Read more

In this episode we interview Dr. Keren Brown Wilson, “grandmother of assisted living” in Oregon, and President, JFR Foundation.   Keren has over 30 years’ experience in long-term care and supportive housing. She was the principal architect of the Oregon model of assisted ... Read more

This is the first episode in a 20-part series on what it's like to age in Portland.  In this opener, we give an overview of the entire series.   This episode includes many of the key quotes from some of the roughly 40 interviews we conducted.  Our guests include geriatric d... Read more