{"podcast":{"title":"Century Lives","slug":"century-lives-4614503","podcast_index_feed_id":4614503,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG7540400285","website_url":"https://longevity.stanford.edu/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a99cd914-52d1-11ec-859d-4770efbffeac/image/0086b8f469779adeb2badbf62a71c16d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Ken Stern","episode_count":78,"summary":"Do rules created when most people lived only to 50 or 60 still make sense when more and more people live to 100? Longer lives are among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history — and the greatest challenge of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well? From the Stanford Century on Longevity, Century Lives is here to start the conversation. Join us as we venture into the world of education, work, healthcare, housing, and more to explore how our future as a population of centenarians has already begun.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T18:24:00.539972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503"},"episode":{"title":"Helping Hands & Hard Drives","slug":"helping-hands-hard-drives","published_at":"2026-06-10T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/helping-hands-hard-drives","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG1945776449.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG1945776449.mp3","summary":"There is a caregiving crisis in America. We simply don’t have enough caregivers to support the number of older adults who need help because of a chronic, disabling, or serious health condition. Most of that work is unrecognized and unpaid. And the situation is only getting worse as the population ages. Many experts argue that only technology can save us, with devices that can carry out caregiving tasks formerly done by humans. In this episode, we tour the aisles of The Consumer Electronics Show with Davis Park, Vice President of Transformation at a non-profit called Front Porch, to find out whether the tech cavalry is indeed on the way. His job is to evaluate and implement emerging technologies that can improve quality of life at the 20 Front Porch retirement communities in California and Florida.","meta_description":"There is a caregiving crisis in America. We simply don’t have enough caregivers to support the number of older adults who need help because of a chronic,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1871,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/century-lives-4614503/episodes/helping-hands-hard-drives/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/helping-hands-hard-drives.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}