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Disability and Baby Boomers

Navigating the complexities of disability can be challenging as the Baby Boomer Generation is Aging. Disabilities come in various forms, including physical (like mobility impairments), intellectual (such as learning disabilities), sensory (affecting sight or hearing), and Mental Health conditions. Each type affects individuals in unique ways, making personalized approaches essential. Our Experts in this area of our Health site will explore the prevalence of disability among Baby Boomers, the most common types of disabilities they face, and the resources available to them. Whether it’s mobility issues, chronic diseases, or mental health conditions, knowing the scope of these challenges can lead to better care and support for our loved ones.

Understanding disability is crucial for building a more inclusive world. It requires continuous effort in Education, legal protections, cultural sensitivity, and advocacy. By embracing diversity and promoting accessibility, society as a whole benefits.

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Disability Specialists & Contributors

Tim Reitsma Disability Inclusion Advocate, Founder at Invisible Condition
James Cox Podcast Host who has Cerebral Palsy
Mai Ling Chan MS, CCC-SLP

Podcasts About Disability
Grit, Grace, & Inspiration | Inspiring You to Dream Bigger, Find Your Purpose, & Become Your Best Self
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
Get Savvy...Demystifying Healthcare
Your Brand Amplified
Xceptional Leaders with Mai Ling Chan & James Berges
Kindness Matters Podcast
The World's Mayor Experience by Joshua T Berglan
THE SJ CHILDS SHOW-Building a Community of Inclusion
Type.Tune.Tint.
The Angel Next Door
Positive Talk Radio
The MisFitNation

Books About Disability
Your Multimillion-Dollar Exit: The Entrepreneur’s Business Success(ion) Planner: A Blueprint for Wealth Guide
By Wayne M. Zell
Becoming an Exceptional Leader
By Mai Ling Chan
Becoming an Exceptional AAC Leader: Inspiration from 15 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Champions
By Mai Ling Chan
A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
By Lisa J. Shultz
Lessons from Zachary
By Sandy Scott

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Mary Beth Orr: The Singing Horn, Appalachia And Resilience #Conversationswithmusicians &Raquo; Podcast Cover
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Mary Beth Orr: The Singing Horn, Appalachia and Resilience #conversationswithmusicians

Mary Beth Orr @marybethorr-horn is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn” which celebrates traditional Appalachian songs with Mahler and contemporary works composed for Mary…

Mary Beth Orr @marybethorr-horn is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn”…

Mary Beth Orr @marybethorr-horn is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn” which celebrates traditional Appalachian songs with Mahler and contemporary works composed for Mary Beth through Vox Novus’ Fifteen Minutes of Fame Project. Mary Beth is currently 3rd Horn of the Grand Rapids Symphony, and she shares the best advice I’ve heard about succeeding at orchestral auditions. Mary Beth also experienced a serious accident that threatened her life and then her abilit…

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Avatar Of Leah Roseman Leah Roseman July 12, 2026
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Mary Beth Orr: The Singing Horn, Appalachia and Resilience

Mary Beth Orr is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn” which celebrates traditional Appalachian songs with Mahler and contemporary works composed for Mary Beth through Vox N…

Mary Beth Orr is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn” which celebrates t…

Mary Beth Orr is a wonderful award-winning horn player and folk vocal artist. Throughout this moving episode you’ll be hearing short excerpts from her album “The Singing Horn” which celebrates traditional Appalachian songs with Mahler and contemporary works composed for Mary Beth through Vox Novus’ Fifteen Minutes of Fame Project. Mary Beth is currently 3rd Horn of the Grand Rapids Symphony, and she shares the best advice I’ve heard about succeeding at orchestral auditions. Mary Beth also experienced a serious accident that threatened her life and then her ability to play the horn a…

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Avatar Of Leah Roseman Leah Roseman July 12, 2026
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Episode 133: When the System Underestimates You: Fighting for Inclusive Healthcare

Send us Fan MailWhat does health equity actually look like for someone living with a disability—and what happens when the healthcare system makes assumptions instead of listening? In this episode, Sandy speaks with Daniel Hodges, attorney, healthcare administrator, disability advocate, and presid…

Send us Fan MailWhat does health equity actually look like for someone living with a disability—and what happens when the healthcare system makes assumptions instead of listening? In this episode, …

Send us Fan MailWhat does health equity actually look like for someone living with a disability—and what happens when the healthcare system makes assumptions instead of listening? In this episode, Sandy speaks with Daniel Hodges, attorney, healthcare administrator, disability advocate, and president and co-founder of Peaces of Me Foundation. Daniel shares his deeply personal journey of living with multiple disabilities, navigating complex medical conditions, and confronting discrimination within healthcare and other systems.Daniel recounts the painful experience of having his ability to par…

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Avatar Of Sandy Kibling Sandy Kibling July 10, 2026
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S E755: Dick Wybrow on Reframing Your Limitations as Creative Superpowers

In this return episode, Anika and Dick Wybrow break down the exact mindset shift required to transition between industries, why independent publishing outperforms traditional deals for genre fiction, and the counterintuitive truth about building a sustainable creative business: it's not about chasin…

In this return episode, Anika and Dick Wybrow break down the exact mindset shift required to transition between industries, why independent publishing outperforms traditional deals for genre fiction, …

In this return episode, Anika and Dick Wybrow break down the exact mindset shift required to transition between industries, why independent publishing outperforms traditional deals for genre fiction, and the counterintuitive truth about building a sustainable creative business: it's not about chasing trends—it's about finding your authentic voice and the people who love it.In This EpisodeCareer pivot from broadcast to books: How 20 years in comedy and TV prepared him for writing—and why it required complete humilityThe case for indie publishing: Why control, speed, and 70% royalties beat t…

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Avatar Of Anika Jackson Anika Jackson July 10, 2026
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Play From Your Heart: Advocacy On and Off the Field with Scott Martin

Today, James sits down for a timely conversation with celebrated soccer coach Scott Martin. In addition to a decades-long career in, and advocacy for, the game of soccer, Scott has also worked as an advocate for the disability community. He shares with James the story of his experience with disabili…

Today, James sits down for a timely conversation with celebrated soccer coach Scott Martin. In addition to a decades-long career in, and advocacy for, the game of soccer, Scott has also worked as an a…

Today, James sits down for a timely conversation with celebrated soccer coach Scott Martin. In addition to a decades-long career in, and advocacy for, the game of soccer, Scott has also worked as an advocate for the disability community. He shares with James the story of his experience with disability as an amputee, his love of soccer, and how he pushed through the challenges in life to pursue his dreams. You don't want to miss this conversation, especially if you're a soccer fan. You can read more about his story in his book, Play From Your Heart.

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Avatar Of Mai Ling Chan Mai Ling Chan July 6, 2026
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Bootleg Barbecue And Big-Heart Mentorship

Send us Fan MailA lot of people say they want to support veterans. Jon King is building systems that actually do it, one mentor match and one shared meal at a time. John spent over 20 years in the Air Force and Army, flew medevac missions, and lived the kind of pressure most of us can’t fully pict…

Send us Fan MailA lot of people say they want to support veterans. Jon King is building systems that actually do it, one mentor match and one shared meal at a time. John spent over 20 years in the Air…

Send us Fan MailA lot of people say they want to support veterans. Jon King is building systems that actually do it, one mentor match and one shared meal at a time. John spent over 20 years in the Air Force and Army, flew medevac missions, and lived the kind of pressure most of us can’t fully picture. After leaving the service and navigating disability, career shifts, and a major layoff, he put his energy into work that feels real, local, and human.We talk about Bootleg Barbecue and why feeding people is more than a side hustle. John explains how a room full of disagreement can go quiet over…

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The Shopkeeper Revolution: Feeding the Communities That Feed the World

In this episode of The World’s Experience, Joshua T. Berglan speaks from Limbe, Cameroon with a deeply personal message about vision, purpose, tremors, disability, building in silence, and refusing to give up on the assignment God placed inside your heart.Joshua connects his own journey of hardshi…

In this episode of The World’s Experience, Joshua T. Berglan speaks from Limbe, Cameroon with a deeply personal message about vision, purpose, tremors, disability, building in silence, and refusing …

In this episode of The World’s Experience, Joshua T. Berglan speaks from Limbe, Cameroon with a deeply personal message about vision, purpose, tremors, disability, building in silence, and refusing to give up on the assignment God placed inside your heart.Joshua connects his own journey of hardship, media, disability, and purpose to a larger conversation about Africa’s agricultural future. This episode explores why local retail, shopkeepers, organic farming, seed sovereignty, regenerative agriculture, and clean food systems matter for Cameroon, Afrique, and the world.The Shopkeeper Revolut…

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Avatar Of Joshua Berglan Joshua Berglan July 1, 2026
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The Future of Fashion Is Adaptive, And It’s About Time

For decades, the fashion industry has operated on a simple assumption: design for the "average" body, and everyone else will figure it out. But what happens when you can't lift your arms high enough to pull a sweater over your head? When arthritis makes buttoning a shirt feel like solving a Rubik's …

For decades, the fashion industry has operated on a simple assumption: design for the "average" body, and everyone else will figure it out. But what happens when you can't lift your arms high enough t…

For decades, the fashion industry has operated on a simple assumption: design for the "average" body, and everyone else will figure it out. But what happens when you can't lift your arms high enough to pull a sweater over your head? When arthritis makes buttoning a shirt feel like solving a Rubik's cube? When a stroke leaves one side of your body weaker, turning getting dressed into a 45-minute ordeal? For millions of people (seniors, people with disabilities, those recovering from surgery or injury) fashion hasn't just been inaccessible. It's been an afterthought. That's changing. And the shi…

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Episode 363- What Down Syndrome Parenting Taught A Trauma Surgeon with Sean Adelman

Send us Fan MailA diagnosis can feel like it writes your child’s future in ink, but that story is usually wrong. We sit down with Sean Adelman, an orthopedic trauma surgeon and dad to a daughter with Down syndrome, to talk about what he’s learned outside the textbooks: people are not their worst…

Send us Fan MailA diagnosis can feel like it writes your child’s future in ink, but that story is usually wrong. We sit down with Sean Adelman, an orthopedic trauma surgeon and dad to a daughter wit…

Send us Fan MailA diagnosis can feel like it writes your child’s future in ink, but that story is usually wrong. We sit down with Sean Adelman, an orthopedic trauma surgeon and dad to a daughter with Down syndrome, to talk about what he’s learned outside the textbooks: people are not their worst day, and kids are not their labels. The big throughline is raising expectations, not as pressure, but as possibility.We get personal about how exposure changes fear into understanding. I share how my family first connected with Down syndrome, then how my son’s autism diagnosis forced me to rethin…

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Avatar Of Sara Bradford Sara Bradford June 30, 2026
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Writing Through the Lens of Empathy

Lauren Reisner admits that her dad might not totally love her decision to give up being a lawyer to follow her dream to write."My dad is supportive, but he is having a very hard time with me saying, I'm not a lawyer anymore," she says.Describing herself as "trauma-informed," Lauren brings empathy to…

Lauren Reisner admits that her dad might not totally love her decision to give up being a lawyer to follow her dream to write."My dad is supportive, but he is having a very hard time with me saying, I…

Lauren Reisner admits that her dad might not totally love her decision to give up being a lawyer to follow her dream to write."My dad is supportive, but he is having a very hard time with me saying, I'm not a lawyer anymore," she says.Describing herself as "trauma-informed," Lauren brings empathy to those suffering from life's setbacks, allowing her to tread lightly as she gathers information to ghostwrite their personal stories. She credits her 20 years as a disability lawyer, representing people with disability claims through the Social Security administration, with her ability to translate …

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