Episode 314: Encore Episode | Going with Grace with Alua Arthur

About this episode

This encore episode features a heartfelt discussion with Alua Arthur about aging and the importance of conversations around death and care for the elderly.

Heartfelt Greetings, Glocal Citizens. This week’s encore episode is a salve for my heavy heart. I’m resharing it as a reminder of life’s certainties; because it reflects some of the roots experiences that my guest, Global Ghanaian, death doula and author of Briefly Perfectly Human , Alua Arthur and I share; and because care for the aging has become a feature focus of my life story, particulary since the start of the pandemic. On April 4th, my father, Peter Otoe Adu took his leave from the body that was the man I know as Daddy, Dad, PO, Peter and papa. He was 86. Last week on the podcast, I mentioned the long overdue solutionscape and stretch salon series. The first topic we covered in these live sessions--the future of work in care for the aging, is an ever-timely discussion that will go live later this month. Woven into this series will be small tributes in memory of the briefly, perfectly human life dad lived and what I hope will be inspiration for us all to normalize conversations, pay attention and act in the interest of not just our elders but our inevitably aging selves. Where to find Alua? See the show notes for Episode 164 Special Guest: Alua Arthur.

People in this episode

Guest: Alua Arthur

Topics covered

• aging
• death doula
• care for the aging
• life experiences
• conversations about death

Keywords

• life certainties
• pandemic
• memorial
• inspiration

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Briefly Perfectly Human

Books & works: Encore Episode |, Going with Grace with Alua Arthur, Briefly Perfectly Human, Special Guest

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