What’s the secret to a long, happy and healthy life? Cathleen Toomey host of the award-winning podcast SENIORITY AUTHORITY knows that it’s time for us to get smarter about growing older.
Join us for a special online New Hampshire PBS INSIDER SERIES event with Cathleen Toomey on Thursday, November 17 at 7pm. Cathleen will share her extensive knowledge and tips about growing older. And we’ll dig into Harvard’s 70+ year-long study about leading a long and healthy life. You won’t want to miss this exclusive interview with Dr. Robert Waldinger, Director of Harvard’s Center for Adult Development.
Cathleen Toomey, Vice President of Marketing, RiverWoods Group
During an era of expansive growth, Cathleen has led the sales and marketing efforts of the RiverWoods Group since 2007. Ever at home with a microphone, Cathleen is also an experienced presenter. In 2021, she began interviewing a scintillating array of scientists, experts, and outside-the-box thinkers for Seniority Authority, a new podcast designed to help adults get smarter about growing older. NHPBS recently launched a video series featuring Cathleen’s Seniority Authority content. She has also done a TEDx talk called “Secrets to Successful Aging”.
Prior to RiverWoods, Cathleen’s extensive advertising, marketing and brand building experience included notables such as Timberland, Stonyfield Farm, Babson College and Bentley University. A graduate of Fordham University (MA) and Fairfield University (BA), Cathleen began her career in ad agency work in New York City. Past board memberships include Womenade of Greater Squamscott, Exeter Chamber of Commerce, Prescott Park Arts Festival and Cross Roads House.
Dr. Robert Waldinger
Dr. Robert Waldinger is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest longitudinal studies of adult life ever done. His research focuses on the lifetime predictors of healthy adult development, studying 2 groups of men recruited as teenagers from Harvard College and from Boston inner city neighborhoods, and who have been part of the Study for over 80 years.
With grants from the National Institute on Aging, the W.T. Grant Foundation, and the Harvard Neurodiscovery Center, he has extended the Study to incorporate neuroscience measures to better understand the ways that life experience and neurobiology interact to foster healthy aging. He has recently finished extending the Study to more than 1300 baby-boomer children of these men to track the influence of childhood experiences on midlife health. In 2020, Dr. Waldinger, depending on the audience) will begin the next phase of research with Generations 3 & 4, the grand and great - grandchildren of the original participants to explore the digital revolution and its influence on shaping young adults and their development.
Dr. Waldinger received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of numerous scientific papers as well as two books: Psychiatry for Medical Students, and Effective Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients: Case Studies. He is a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, he teaches Harvard medical students and psychiatry residents, and he is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He also practices and teaches Zen meditation. In 2016, Bob co-founded the Lifespan Research Foundation (LRF) as Executive Director, to dramatically increase the distribution of the Study findings to millions of people by building a new framework for learning and human thriving. The mission of LRF is “to promote and use lifespan research to enable people to live healthier lives, filled with meaning and purpose.” To learn more, please go to www.lifespanresearch.org.
Support for NHPBS Insider Series is provided by: DF Richard, Kennebunk Savings Bank, UnitedHealthcare, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Granite State College, Milne Travel and is a co-production with the RiverWoods Group.