Long-Term Care, Longevity, Loneliness, & Aging
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. In today's episode, actually, we're going to be covering a few variables today in the healthcare arena. One is long-term care, longevity. We're going to touch on loneliness a little bit and also aging. We have a great guest with us. We'll get to his introduction in just a moment. As you all know, if you've listened to Health Chatter and some of our great shows, we've got a great wonderful cast that really helps us provide insights into the shows and also gets the shows out to you, the listening audience. Our researchers include Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan also does some marketing for us. And then, of course, we have Matthew Campbell, who does our actually all of our production and gets the shows out to you, the listening audience. We have also our new medical advisor with us and on our team, Dr. Barry Bain. So welcome to you, Barry. It's great to have you aboard.
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And then of course, there's Clarence Jones. We've had a great time doing these shows. He's a great co-host, brings a really interesting community angles to all the subjects that we bring to you. So Clarence, once again, It's great. It's always really great. So also we have a sponsor, and that's Human Partnership, a great community health organization that provides a lot of services to a lot of different groups out in the community. Thank you to Human Partnership. You can check them out at human, H-U-E-M-A-N, partnership.org. And you can check us out at healthchatterpodcast.com. And so with all that, now we get into the subject for today. We've got a great guest with us, Dr. Joseph Gogler from the University of Minnesota, Distinguished University Professor, Dr. Robert L. Cain, Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care. I knew Bob Cain for many, many years. He was a a wonderful colleague. He was also the Dean of the School of Public Health in the state of Minnesota.
Dr. Gogler's research examines the sources and effectiveness of long-term care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other chronic decisions. He's applied gerontologists Interest includes Alzheimer's, long-term care, longitudinal ramifications of family care for persons with dementia and chronic conditions. It's great having you. And for our listening audience, how did I connect with Joe? Well, there was an article in the New York Times that's really going to kick off our discussion here. There's an article in the New York Times, February 3rd, And the title of the article was When a Spouse Goes to a Nursing Home. And without even reading the article further, I was saying to myself, wow, that really has a lot of implications, not only for the person that's going into the long-term care facility, but also the person that's placing them in the facility. So then, of course, then I read the article, and then, of course, Dr. Gagler's research was noted in it. So why don't we start out there, first of all.
Joe, why don't you give us just a sense of what it means to get or to place a person, a loved one, a significant one, in a long-term care facility, and what ramifications does it have for that person that's going into the facility, as well as the one that's perhaps left at home.
Right, yeah. This is a topic that I've been interested in as far back as my master's thesis back at Penn State. Gosh, it's been a while now. I'm not even going to say how many years. That's a great question to ask. It's also a very complicated one, in part because of the heterogeneity of caregiving context, experiences, in some cases, functional or disease trajectories on the part of the care recipient, we'll use the term relative in this instance, and under what circumstances the decision is made to admit a loved one to some type of residential long-term care setting. When you factor in all of these different Layers of perspectives, preferences, contextual issues, financial barriers, stress. I mean, the list can go on and on. It becomes very, very challenging to simply summarize, well, it's this way and this is what, you know, this family should be worried about versus that one, etc.
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