EP. 257: The Challenges of ADHD and Aging in Women with Dr. Kathleen Nadeau

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We’ve known for quite some time that ADHD doesn’t just “go away” with age, yet only about 4% of boomers have a diagnosis. So why the huge discrepancy, what are the impacts, and most importantly, what can we do about it? Dr. Kathleen Nadeau has been working to answer these questions for the last few decades. Along with many other accomplishments, she’s the author of Still Distracted After All These Years, the only book focusing on the needs of older adults with ADHD. During my conversation with the brilliant Dr. Nadeau, she shares about her personal ADHD journey, her work in the field, the three biggest factors impacting older ADHD women, and ways to support your body, brain, and well-being through all stages of life. Dr. Nadeau’s work serves as an important reminder that life doesn’t have to stop at retirement, and we can always continue adding joy and meaning to our lives no matter our age. Resources: Website: thechesapeakecenter.com

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0:00.0	We're learning a lot more about dementia and we're learning that dementia in many ways is a lifestyle disease. So it's not that ADHD causes dementia directly, it's just
0:19.9	the lifestyle choices commonly made by people with ADHD then lead to dementia.
0:27.0	Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Justin Timberlake, James Carville,
0:39.0	wait a minute. Where are the women?
0:48.0	Greta Gerwig, Lisa Ling, Audrey McDonald, Simone Biles.
0:51.0	That sounds like a list of highly successful Titans in a variety of
0:55.9	industries. They all have ADHD but you don't hear much about that now do you?
1:01.1	You know what else you don't hear about are the 43% of people with
1:05.6	ADHD who are in excellent mental health. Why aren't we talking about them and what
1:11.4	they're doing right.
1:13.4	I'm your host Tracy Atsuka and that's exactly what we do here.
1:18.1	I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, and now the author of my new book ADHD for smart-ass women.
1:25.3	I'm also a certified ADHD coach and the creator of your ADHD brain is a-okk.
1:31.8	A patented system that helps ADHD women just like you get unstuck and
1:37.0	fall in love with their brilliant brains.
1:40.4	Here, we embrace our too muchness and we focus on our strengths.
1:45.0	My guests and I credit our ADHD for some of our greatest gifts.
1:50.3	And to those who still think they're too much, too impulsive, too scattered,
1:54.8	to disorganize, I say no one ever made a difference by being too little.
2:08.0	Hello, I am your host Tracy Autsuka. Thank you so much for joining me here
2:11.0	for episode number 257 of ADHD for smart-ass women.
2:16.7	If you've been listening for a bit and you've been thinking,
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