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Interview with grandpa who was in navy and police department

Spoke in Spanish with my mom (age 86 at the time of the interview), who was born in Cuba, eventually moving to Venezuela, where she met and married my dad. She was a college professor for decades before retiring. She...

[Recorded: Friday, November 5th, 2021] Miles Efron and Marion Dembling have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Miles works for the Miller Center at UVA, and Marion is a retiree living in the Charlottesville area. During their conversation,...

Friends Pastor Tag Tuck (46) and Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin (33) have a One Small Step conversation and discuss their political beliefs, and what they have learned from their friendship about having difficult conversations.

My dad’s thoughts on his life and lessons in the transformation of his past 10 years.

This is an interview I did with my grandmother (Bubi) about her challenging childhood during the Great Depression. (Note: My grandmother has been previously diagnosed with dementia, which is why there were some aspects of her story that were repeated.)

My sister's early interest in health care & her position in a large family led her to nursing school but her career & life path since required an adventurous spirit and self-propelled advanced education

The legacy of two people as shared by their children and grandchildren.

Irene Rodriguez Mendez recalls her family and baseball as a young child

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Krista and her husband Craig interviewed her maternal grandfather Robert Myron Wachter about his childhood, marriage, family, career and values.

margie talked about her lifr growing up and what she did.

Grandma and Warren and Heather talking in the hospital.

Allen Crowell (73) and his daughter Johanna (45) have a conversation about his religious past and her conversion to Judaism.

Being on the Berkeley campus in the 1960s and 1970s; ageism and sexism; watching a parent go through Alzheimer's.

In this interview we discussed her early life. Later in the interview we briefly touched on her life now and her diagnosis with Alzheimer’s.

My mother has dementia and has difficulty remembering any details but she is this far as sweet as ever.

Questions about Alzheimer’s and learning to live with a patient.

My grandpa on aging, Alzheimer's, and growing up as a street kid during the depression.

Sidonia L. Singer talks with grandson, Abraham Singer, about her experience growing up in Czechoslovakia, during the time of Hitler’s extermination of the Jews.

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to go on a search to find your birth parents? On December 31,2019, in Woodstock Vermont, Tsehay Driscoll sad down to interview her grandmother Titia Ellis to find the answer. Titia...

My friend Anne Hermann has long had a passion for and involvement with the field of mental health services, particularly for older adults.

Her family left Germany in 1934 when she was 2. Eva's journey of discovery & passion for social justice began in the American South; then she found shared values at Antioch College and with the U.U.community...

Rabbi David Kline, 63, is interviewed by his son, Avram J. Kline. Barbara Jane Kline, 58, Rabbi David’s wife and Avram’s mother, was also in the room to help Rabbi David remember a few details. She spoke minimally.

Judith Peavey (71) shares her thoughts, feelings, and memories about her late husband's life and their relationship leading up to his diagnosis with dementia. Sonia Kinkhabwala (22) accompanies and listens to her stories.