Health

June 19, 2013

A look at “aging in place,” allowing people to live in their homes instead of in nursing homes or assisted living centers. Our guests: SallyHurme, an expert on aging with AARP; Rebecca Sheppard, home-sharing program director for St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center in Baltimore and the president of the National Shared Housing Resource Center; Lynn Berberich, an expert on home care and the founder of Bright Star Health Care; and Nick Romano, owner of Charm City Remodeling, an aging in place contractor.

June 18, 2013

Web Extra: Colmers on his dual roles as chair of the HSCRC and Vice-President of Johns Hopkins Medicine

Web Extra: Colmers on changing Maryland's Medicare waiver test focus from the volume of care to the value of care.

June 11, 2013

Getting Baltimoreans, especially those in the poorest neighborhoods, to live healthier lives is one of the top challenges of public health officials. Prominent funeral director Erich March and his wife, Michele Speaks-March, are doing their part; disturbed by the premature deaths due to diabetes and hypertension they saw in East Baltimore, they established a grocery store in one of their community’s “food deserts.” But providing healthy food is one thing; breaking habits and deep cultural connections to certain foods is another.

May 21, 2013

A diagnosis of metastatic cancer is a challenge to live as well as you can, for the time you have left.  Johns Hopkins has created a retreat for couples facing that diagnosis, to help caregivers and patients help each other.  We talk about whether the retreat could be a model for other hospitals.

Cholera and chicken pox continue to cause high death rates in developing countries, especially among children. In his memoir, 10 Lesson in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow’s Leaders, one of the country’s leading epidemiologists, Dr. Alfred Sommer of Johns Hopkins, shares his ideas for solving troublesome worldwide health issues gained through his experiences in Bangladesh, Iran and Indonesia. (Original Air Date: April 8th)

May 20, 2013