Today we travel to a future where you can retire to a nursing home… in space.
Guests:
- Anicca Harriot — PhD candidate at the University of Maryland School of medicine
- Dustin Gibson — Access, Disability and Language Justice Coordinator at PeoplesHub
- Dr. Tracie Prater — Aerospace Engineer at NASA
Voice Actors:
- Tour Guide: Emma Bracy
- Noah: Brett Tubbs
- Marco: Tamara Krinsky
Further Reading:
- Space–brain: The negative effects of space exposure on the central nervous system
- Aging Faster in Space to Age Better on Earth
- Assessment of Jugular Venous Blood Flow Stasis and Thrombosis During Spaceflight
- First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above earth
- Medications in Space: In Search of a Pharmacologist’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Microgravity and Cosmic Radiations During Space Exploration as a Window Into Neurodegeneration on Earth
- Studying Aging in Space? Send an Aging Astronaut
- Oct. 29, 1998 – John Glenn Returns to Space
- Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery
- Exercise in space: human skeletal muscle after 6 months aboard the International Space Station
- How 11 Deaf Men Helped Shape NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program
- Critical Knowledge inSight: Gallaudet Eleven-The Deaf Right Stuff
- It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel
- Human heart cells are altered by spaceflight, but return to (mostly) normal on Earth
- Space-Age Challenge: Healing Broken Bones, Wounds and Internal Organs
- AARP Answers: Nursing Homes and the Coronavirus
- States Allow In-Person Nursing Home Visits As Families Charge Residents Die ‘Of Broken Hearts’
- Tonawanda nursing home worker says ‘it was chaos’ when the COVID surge hit
- ‘Makeshift morgue’ at New Jersey nursing home sparks broader coronavirus probe
- Why Nursing Homes Become COVID-19 Hot Spots
- ‘A national disgrace’: 40,600 deaths tied to US nursing homes
- “Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It.
- Putting More People in Prison Can Increase Crime, Study Says / Communities suffer when too many men gone
- It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes
- It’s Time for an End-of-Life Discussion About Nursing Homes
- Comparing Aging in Place to Home Health Care: Impact of Nurse Care Coordination On Utilization and Costs
- Comparison of Long-term Care in Nursing Homes Versus Home Health: Costs and Outcomes in Alabama
- The Changing Structure of the Nursing Home Industry and the Impact of Ownership on Quality, Cost, and Access
- As residents perish, nursing homes fight for protection from lawsuits
- Nursing home industry pushes for immunity from lawsuits during coronavirus emergency
- Coronavirus is renewing a call to abolish nursing homes
- Fair Housing Project
- Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- How much do incarcerated people earn in each state?
- States Weigh Options on Subminimum Wages for Workers With Disabilities
- A loophole in federal law allows companies to pay disabled workers $1 an hour
- Heat Transfer in Microgravity
- Not Your Backyard Compost Heap
- Taking ZBLAN Optical Fiber Production to Space
- Made in Space—Building a Better Optical Fiber
- Building a Lunar Base with 3D Printing
- Boeing to support NASA with ISS operations through 2024
- Is the White House Planning to Hold the Space Station Hostage?
Full transcript in site.