This is the first new episode beginning in 2022 from those that ended in 2017. The host updates his progress on his battle with prostate cancer and sets the stage for a new season of the podcast.  More about the host can be found on his website: elderplanning101.com

Recorded in 2017 the host is the sole guest describing his prostate cancer progress over the preceding two years (2015-2017).  In the next episode, the first new episode,  recorded in 2022, the host describes his present status after recurrent cancer and recent metastasis.

An older episode conversation with Marlene who describes life after the death of her husband and a recent retirement.

Recorded several years ago, Sally was in her mid 90's.  She is now deceased.  Among so many accomplishments she wrote with her husband the biography of Marty Mann of Alcoholics Anonymous fame.  At the time of the recording Sally had been sober herself for 39 years. She was a dancer, a minister and a VA counselor.  Her husband a celebrated engineer was married to Sally for 39 years. 

Brandy is among the best of the best coming up from the ranks to become an administrator of a memory care facility in California.  The best memory care workers have methods of care that can be learned but there is no way to teach someone empathy.  If only there were more Brandys.

This episode concludes Murphy's story.  The Dickens tale unravels to conclusion.

Meeting Murphy in a parking lot riding an electric wheel chair, we listen to a story about a young boy whose father was executed at San Quentin, lived in 26 states before he was two and had a son who murdered his other son.  The story is told in two parts.

Interviewed a few years ago when Cleveland was in the World Series, Gary was recently retired and learning to live alone after the death of his wife.  The conversation talked about everything from motorcycles to being a secular Jew when your daughter is a Rabbi.

At the time of the interview Ellen admitted to at least 90.  She admitted herself to the facility knowing that her children felt she should stay home. She is happy to be independent and living there. She has no need for a bucket list since she feels she has had a complete life. There is much more to her story including her interesting opinion on being Catholic.

Another episode recorded several years ago.  Margaret leads a discussion group at a facility in California and has been a resident for several years.  She is very bright and articulate and shares her incites about the facility and her personal views about religion, politics, age discrimination and romance.