Active Aging Week, Universal Home Design, Upskilling & Encore Careers, National Work-Family & Emotional Health Month, Vision+Color for Brain Health

Caregiving Club On Air

Host Sherri Snelling celebrates October National Active Aging and Aging in Place Weeks by talking to two experts using innovative solutions to help older adults to be lifelong learners and gain social health through a new learning platform and how to transform our homes into “forever homes” through universal design. She first talks to Lawrence Kosick, Co-Founder of Get Set Up, about how an online learning platform keeps older adults emotionally healthy but also provides skills for encore careers. Then for our Well Home Design News, Sherri talks to national aging in place expert, Rosemarie Rossetti, designer of the Universal Design Living Lab – which happens to be her home in Ohio! Rosemarie’s story is very poignant regarding how a terrible accident led her on a journey to adapt our homes to make it work for whatever physical challenges we may have. In Caregiver Wellness News, Sherri also touches on October Emotional Health Month and how emotional health is different from mental health. She also talks about what employers are doing to support mental and emotional health in the workplace and a note on finding resiliency and longevity in the life story and recent passing of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. And, we are thinking pink as Sherri acknowledges October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Finally, as always, we end our episode with our Me Time Monday Wellness Hack that recognizes October 13 which is both World Vision Day and National Train Your Brain Day. Our Me Time Monday wellness hack is on how our brains see colors and how chromatherapy – based on color – is another tool for better wellness.