Season 1
NPT Reports: Aging Matters is a major multi-year initiative designed to open a community-based conversation about what Middle Tennessee's older citizens need to optimize their quality of life and what the community needs to do to prepare for a coming explosion in our aging population. Learn more about this Nashville Public Television original production series.
The cost of long-term care and burden of providing it have led to a crisis for seniors.
Reimagining Long-Term Care
This edition of Aging Matters focuses on health disparities among older adults.
Disparities & Health Equity
This NPT original explores the benefits/challenges of developing relationships as we age.
Companionship & Intimacy
NPT Reports Aging Matters: Opioids & Addiction explores the painful story of addiction.
Opioids & Addiction
A look at the risks of hospital treatment as we age and how some hospitals are adapting.
Hospitals & Health Risks
NPT explores how growing older can be an isolating experience for our aging community.
Loneliness & Isolation
Nutrition & Aging examines the hidden epidemic of malnutrition and undernutrition.
Nutrition & Aging
Since 2011, it's estimated that 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day in the US.
Aging & the Workplace
Living with Alzheimer's and Dementia
Explores the impact these diseases are having on individuals, families and communities.
Living with Alzheimer's and Dementia
The fifth installment in Nashville Public Television’s NPT Reports: Aging Matters series.
Aging In Place
The future is always uncertain, but what is important is that we take time to look ahead.
Economics of Aging
In NPT Reports Aging Matters: The New Old Age, NPT explores the changing face of aging.
The New Old Age
End of Life explores the experience of dying and why so few of us get the death we want.