Aging Now Podcast
The doctors who specialize in aging are trying to tell us something and most of us aren't listening yet.
The Aging Forward Podcast brings together some of the sharpest minds in geriatric medicine for the kind of conversations that usually only happen behind closed doors. Each episode, a UCLA geriatrician sits down with a specialist to unpack what aging actually looks like in the body, from memory loss and sleep disorders to weight loss drugs, hearing loss, and knowing when medicine does more harm than good.
This isn't a wellness podcast. It's a front-row seat to the science of getting older and why everything you think you know about it might be wrong.
Episodes
8 episodes
Why the Care Your Doctor Orders Might Be Doing You More Harm Than Good
One in four Medicare patients with dementia is receiving a medication that could make things significantly worse. Not because of negligence but because of a system that rewards doing more, not doing better. This conversation gets into the mecha...
The Hidden Cost of GLP-1 No One Is Talking About
Most people starting GLP-1 therapy are focused on one number: the weight on the scale. But for adults over 50, what's happening beneath that number may be more important and more dangerous than anyone warned them about.In this episode, D...
What Dizziness Is Actually Telling You & When to Take It Seriously
Most people think dizziness is simple. It's not. For millions of older adults, a dizzy spell can mean a dozen different things and the difference between the wrong diagnosis and the right one can be the difference between missing a stroke warni...
70 Million And The Fight Against Dementia
What if you could find out you were developing dementia 17 years before you had a single symptom? That's not science fiction anymore and the doctor who built one of the country's most replicated dementia care programs says what's coming for bab...
The Social Disability That Doctors Keep Ignoring
Most people think of hearing loss as an inconvenience. What they don't realize is that untreated hearing loss quietly rewires how the brain processes information, pushes people out of conversations they once loved, and as new research is showin...
Revolutionary Breakthrough In Alzheimer’s Treatment
A new class of drugs can now remove the protein behind Alzheimer's disease from the brain. But it doesn't restore memory. It doesn't cure the disease. And not everyone qualifies. So what does it actually do and who is it for? Dr. Da...
The Hidden Connection Between Poor Sleep and Cognitive Decline
Most people know sleep gets harder with age. What nobody tells you is that the sleep problems you're ignoring right now the insomnia, the restless nights, the medication you've been on for 20 years may be doing more damage than you think.
Managing the Behavioral & Psychological Symptoms of Dementia
Most families navigating dementia know what memory loss looks like. What no one prepares them for are the behavioral and psychological symptoms the agitation, the refusals, the personality shifts that can make caregiving feel impossible.&nb...