by WomenOver70 | Jul 27, 2022 | Podcast, Season Four, Spirituality and Healing
Donna Chacko, MD, practiced medicine for 40 years, first as a radiation oncologist and later, after retraining in her 50’s, as a family medicine doctor. While serving people faced with poverty and homelessness, she learned that health involves far more than the...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 20, 2022 | Podcast, Season Four, Social Activism
Before abortion was legalized by the US Supreme Court in 1973 (Roe v Wade), a Chicago-based group of over 100 women–known as Jane–provided counseling and illegal abortions for 11,000 women (1969-1973). Rev. & Dr. Patricia Novick, age 75, was one of...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 13, 2022 | Play, Podcast, Season Four
Nancy Watson’s entrepreneurial spirit has led her on different paths, always toward nurturing other people. Her 8-year long career as a teacher in disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago in the 1970s was interrupted by a 2-year stint as the contented owner of an...
by WomenOver70 | Jul 6, 2022 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Four
Closure from ambiguous loss is a harmful misnomer. What’s needed is resilienceto live in meaningful ways with no closure. – Pauline Boss PhD. In the 1970s, Pauline Boss, PhD, began developing her theory of ambiguous loss which shebrought to the lay public in...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 29, 2022 | Podcast, Season Four, Social Activism
Karen Kalish’s career included school teacher, consumer advocate, business owner, and on-air TV reporter. She became a serial social entrepreneur and believes that to whom much is given, much is required. “Partners and collaborators are what make it work. No one...