Plain-spoken conversations for aging with dignity.
Aging Today Podcast treats aging as a practical, emotional, and relational subject rather than a narrow medical category. Mark Turnbull guides long-form conversations with guests on elder law, storytelling, food, loneliness, faith, caregiving, and senior care models.
PRESS PLAY
Aging Today Podcast treats aging as something people live through in families, kitchens, churches, care systems, and memory. It is not a quick-tip wellness show. Mark Turnbull leads interview-centered episodes that give guests room to tell the story behind their advice. The result is slower, warmer, and more grounded than a standard health segment. Caregiving sits near the center of the show. Conversations return to adult children, aging parents, independence, respect, legal planning, and the fear that can come when a senior is alone. Frances Reeves brings an elder law lens to family responsibility and the hard choices around caring for parents. Other episodes widen the frame. Storytelling becomes a way to hold wisdom, whether through memoir pages, family anecdotes, writing groups, or small memories that still carry weight. Robert B. O’Connor's conversation about Jeep Show connects humor, World War II, class, hardship, and the culture of soldiers shaped by the Depression. The show is also interested in daily forms of care. Food, senior living, the PACE model, and the mental health effects of loneliness all appear as part of the same larger question: how can aging people remain connected and treated with dignity? Faith-based episodes with Pastor Tom Schiave add a spiritual register, especially around hope and meaning. The host often pauses to restate what matters. That habit gives the show a practical, family-table feel. It can be repetitive around intros, outros, and sponsor material, but the core conversations are sincere. The best moments happen when a guest moves from expertise into lived experience. Aging Today Podcast is for people who want serious subjects handled plainly. It makes room for grief. It also makes room for humor, memory, food, faith, and the stubborn wish to keep choosing how life feels in later years.
Made for: Aging Today Podcast is for older adults, caregivers, adult children, and families trying to make sense of care, independence, memory, health, and later-life planning. It also fits listeners who prefer gentle, story-first interviews over fast clinical advice.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by blending professional guidance with long personal stories, letting elder law, food, faith, wartime memory, and loneliness sit in the same human conversation. Its practical value comes from translating big aging issues into everyday family decisions.
A Podcast where together we discuss proactive aging in the right place, with a choice, connecting to the professional advice of our special guests, while creating better days throughout the aging process. Sponsored by ComForCare In Home Case of West Linn & Portland-South.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mark Turnbull connects later-life health with caregiving, independence, loneliness, and the stories families carry across generations.
Aging Today Podcast turns aging into a series of concrete conversations about decisions, care, health, and identity. Mark Turnbull works through those subjects with guests, asking practical questions while leaving room for personal experience.
Roadside beer cans become your cue to question a neat theory about Alzheimer's.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A humane, practical conversation about respecting aging parents while planning real family care.
Aging Today Podcast takes up the question of aging on one's own terms through a conversation with Frances Reeves, an elder law attorney, author, and advocate for seniors and people moving through the aging process.
A warm, practical case for turning meaningful memories into writing, community, and a lasting family record.
Storytelling becomes a grounded way to think about aging in this Aging Today episode. It begins with the kinds of memories that tend to stay close: being told something was out of reach, speaking up for someone, or noticing generational differences only after time has passed.
A warm WWII conversation where humor leads into memory, deprivation, class, and the changes that followed.
Aging Today starts with Jeep shows and eases into a broader look at how World War II changed both the people who served and the country they returned to.
A humane discussion of aging that links caregiving, loneliness, and mental health.
This episode keeps aging close to the ground, where independence, family support, and loneliness become practical pressures rather than abstract themes.
A measured, plain-language look at why amyloid may be evidence of Alzheimer's rather than its proven cause.
Aging Today approaches Alzheimer's disease through a question that complicates the familiar story: does beta amyloid drive the disease, or is it a visible sign of another underlying process?
Plainspoken help for aging in the Mid-Valley.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
A podcast discussing proactive aging, senior living options, and professional advice for aging on your terms.
Dr.
Host Mark Turnbull interviews Dr.
This episode discusses proactive aging and senior living options with professional guests.
This episode introduces the podcast's mission to discuss proactive aging and features a host welcoming listeners to the new year.
Aging Today Podcast introduces Frances Reeves, an elder law attorney, author of Boomers Booming, and founder of Parent Your Parents, to talk about caring for aging parents.
Patricia Crisofoli ties storytelling to aging, saying small anecdotes can hold “huge universal wisdom” and that the act of writing helps people understand “what is my truth.” She traces her path from writing a four-sentence epic at age 7 to journalism, communications consulting, and the Oneida Harbor mystery series, including an MFA from Northwestern at age 52.
Robert B.
Aging Today host Mark interviews Stacey Zerbin, Vice President of Health Services at Friendship Village, about redefining hospice as support for living rather than simply a death sentence.
Aging Today host Mark Turnbull interviews Brandy Penner, program manager of Oregon's Elder Pride Services, about LGBTQ+ older adults and later-life support.
A podcast discussing proactive aging, featuring expert advice on aging in place and creating better days throughout the aging process.