Gen X Retirement Home
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What inspired the idea for a Gen X retirement home?
They're going to hand you a tambourine and it's going to be like, welcome to the jungle.
Women are probably feeling less lonely than men.
Everybody gets a little dysentery.
And Kim's eyebrows. And Kim's eyebrows.
Yeah, we get older every day.
Got more wrinkles, that's okay. Yeah, we're laughing when we age. Life is like a comedy stage. And that's what we got there.
Hi there, friends. I'm Kim Holderness.
And I'm Penn Holderness. Thank you so much for joining us on Laugh Lines. If it's a wide enough shot, you can see that it's an Ugg Moccasins kind of day.
I am wearing my house slippers because guess what? Lift the veil. We are in our house. It is really hard to get motivated to put on a bra for this. I know, right? When we went to YouTube, we are on YouTube, and I had to consistently put on bras to record a podcast. My body was like, wait, what?
We need like a closed circuit camera where like within five minutes of leaving what looks like a professional scene, Kim is in this special, what I call her bathrobe of all bathrobes that she's just gotten, that she has a matching bathrobe with Lola. And no.
Well, no, Lola got it for Christmas. She accidentally left it at home. I put it on because I missed her. And then I was like, oh, this is great. And then I just like sent her another one to school. I have become an old lady, but we have matching bathrobes now. Anyway.
So look, if you ever over plucked your eyebrows in the nineties, welcome. Welcome. This is your home. Also foreshadowing.
Yes. This week I was reminded that, in one day in one day specifically that i am not old enough and yet too old and i'm showing my age okay oh wow so this is uh this is new information to me okay tell me tell me the not old enough we went to go visit your mom yesterday at um the memory care unit and first of all angels of angels that care for these people and your mom has been there for seven years she is the longest
Yeah, she's king of the mountain, if that was the game that people played in a memory care unit.
Just pushing people off.
We looked at each other like, yay. That's a weird thing to celebrate. Congratulations.
It is so sad because you get to know the other residents when you visit. Yeah. And then when you walk in and you see their picture about like – And the flowers. And the flowers of like who's recently passed. It is like – it's a little bit of a – it's a lot a bit of a gut punch. And so the fact that your mom has been there the longest of any other resident, we're like – Yay, cool. But she's hanging on. They're all like, she's a strong lady.
You guys, it's the codes that we're hearing from, again, the angels on earth are, she's really strong or like, she's hanging in there or like, she's incredible with a question mark. Anyway, like one, one of them was like, she's doing fine.
Okay. So if, if you're new here, Penn's mom is in the end stages of Alzheimer's. She has been in the end stages of Alzheimer's for two or three years, longer than most people, longer than most people. She will be studied by science. She's actually, they have a, it is set up.
Yes. Brain study from Duke University. It's like, well, I want to talk about that really quickly. Okay. So it was, it got shut down for a while during the pandemic and then came back in. And basically they want to study the brain of an Alzheimer's patient because first of all, you can't like, officially diagnose someone with Alzheimer's until you see their brain.
Right.
So it's very rare that you get that kind of data. And so her, her brain is like this very, it's everyone's very excited to get a look at it.
So to be clear, Penn's mom and dad sign up for the study themselves. Uh, 50 20 years ago yes it was 20 years ago because it was before lola was born and there is a wrl which is our local station interviewed your mom and dad about the study and i and i'm not i'm gonna cry that lola when she misses your dad she watches of all the things that she watches she watches the youtube video about him but he was talking about alzheimer's prevention and stuff like that so i didn't know that anyway
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What inspired the idea for a Gen X retirement home?
0:00–5:32
2
How does music affect memory in aging populations?
5:32–10:52
3
What challenges do women face regarding beauty standards as they age?
10:52–14:10
4
How can laughter and grief coexist in the context of aging?
14:10–29:05
5
What unique activities would Gen X want in a retirement community?
29:05–39:19
6
How do beauty standards impact women's self-image?
39:19–50:03
7
What role does community play in combating loneliness among men?
50:03–50:42
Speakers
3 identifiedMore from Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness
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