Aging Gracefully | Barbara Matthews | TEDxMSJC

With an MBA, Barbara Matthews is a Certified Gerontologist with 20 years experience in health and senior care. She is author of the book Old Age: The Paradox of Physical Decline and Spiritual Greatness and host of the weekly radio show “Age of Being 20-20” on KCAA NBC News Radio Network. With special interest in Alzheimer’s Disease, she served on the Alzheimer’s Association Advisory Committee and Speakers Bureau. She has presented at the statewide California Association for Health Services at Home annual conference and for several years presented for the University of Texas Health Science Center Teleconference Network. In 2018 she was invited to speak to the American Society on Aging national conference. Barbara is a former Ambassador for Riverside County Office on Aging “Caregivers in the Workplace Initiative” and former member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Healthy Management Diabetes Education. With an MBA, Barbara Matthews is a Certified Gerontologist with 20 years experience in health and senior care. She is author of the book Old Age: The Paradox of Physical Decline and Spiritual Greatness and host of the weekly radio show “Age of Being 20-20” on KCAA NBC News Radio Network. With special interest in Alzheimer’s Disease, she served on the Alzheimer’s Association Advisory Committee and Speakers Bureau. She has presented at the statewide California Association for Health Services at Home annual conference and for several years presented for the University of Texas Health Science Center Teleconference Network. In 2018 she was invited to speak to the American Society on Aging national conference. Barbara is a former Ambassador for Riverside County Office on Aging “Caregivers in the Workplace Initiative” and former member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Healthy Management Diabetes Education. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@carmencolado1926]

This is such a wonderful talk - we REALLY need to have this public discourse in the U.S.!

[@dori9024]

This would be wonderful if every senior had the opportunity to live in such a nice place. Maybe knowing you have a place to live like that we wouldn’t be afraid of aging.

[@DLFfitness1]

Aging gracefully means making peace with what is. Those who cannot do that, add to their misery.

[@dianesidebottom6413]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you 🙏

[@reathasearing327]

Thank you so much for speaking to the topic of spiritual care in the face of Alzheimers. I am a medically boarded chaplain who loved working in senior care and hospice. What a joy to see living situations that cherished the spiritual care of patients and caregivers as an essential component of quality care.

[@terrilowe3530]

So good!

[@debbiestriks5264]

So beautifully said, obviously straight from your heart. What an inspiration.

[@doresnalwanga5499]

❤welcome home beautiful special speech to all as we all age loving fully is my mantra 🎉