Cheryl Beversdorf Host & Producer of Aging Matters

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton welcome Cheryl Beversdorf as our guest to the show.

About Cheryl Beversdorf:

A Vietnam era Veteran, registered nurse, former not-for-profit association executive, and public communications specialist, Cheryl Beversdorf produces and hosts AGING MATTERS Radio, weekly radio programs and podcasts offering interviews with guests who talk about aging related topics of interest to older adults, their care partners, and families.

Cheryl also produces and hosts AGING MATTERS TV Show, featuring interviews with experts about aging issues that include demonstrations of how aging related subjects benefit older adults’ lives, and stories of life of guests who talk about how their life experiences made a difference to them and to their community.

Cheryl is a member of the Board of Directors of Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV), a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization dedicated to helping older residents age in place. She chairs the ANV Communications and Marketing Committee and hosts ANV’s weekly Coffee and Conversation program. Before AGING MATTERS, Cheryl partnered with an elder mediation attorney to create Talking About the Tough Stuff, interactive dramatizations and commentary for families needing to have difficult conversations about aging issues. She also helped establish Epilogue LLC, which offered support groups to help men and women over age 50 find new jobs or reinvent themselves in retirement.

About AGING MATTERS Podcast and Radio Show:

The weekly radio program presents individuals with expertise about a broad array of aging related topics. The show is broadcast on podcast sites and made available for downloading on grassroots community radio stations affiliated with Pacifica Network. Produced in an interview format, guests educate and inform listeners about timely topics that impact the lives of older adults and their families.

The program's focus is to help ensure longer and healthier lives for older adults. About AGING MATTERS TV Show: The TV Show offers interviews with aging experts and includes demonstrations of how aging related subjects benefit the lives of older adults and their families. A series of programs called “Stories of Life,” showcases guests who share ways their lives made a difference to them and to their community.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions
0:06.8	on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by top rated local. Hello and welcome back to all Home Care Matters. If this is your first time
0:27.7	visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time out to
0:30.8	be with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time
0:34.4	is and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters
0:38.0	something that will hopefully matter to you. Today I am honored to welcome a
0:42.2	remarkable guest Cheryl Beversdorf. She's a military
0:46.1	nurse and veteran and also the host and producer of Aging Matters. Welcome Cheryl.
0:52.1	How are you today? I'm just fine, thank you. I'm talking
0:56.1	from Arlington, Virginia. Wonderful. Hopefully you guys aren't having any
1:01.5	effects of the hurricane coming through.
1:04.0	We are.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:06.0	No, it looked pretty severe when I was reading the news last night.
1:10.0	You know, Cheryl, I introduced you as the host of Aging Matters, but I want to kind of start with the beginning of your journey and have you share with our viewers and listeners a little bit more about who you are and what makes you who you are.
1:24.7	I'm going to do a spoiler here. You are a Vietnam veteran as a military nurse.
1:31.1	Talk about some of your experiences and kind of how you got to where you're at today.
1:36.0	Well, it was the late 60s and I had finished nursing school, a diploma program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:44.1	I'm a Wisconsin native.
1:46.7	And all of my roommates and folks from the nursing school era were married and I wasn't and so after working a couple of years and
1:57.1	Surgery in Milwaukee I decided it was time to do something different and at the time the Vietnam War was going on and I thought well maybe I could do something really interesting.
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