About the Host
Cheryl Beversdorf is producer and host of AGING MATTERS, a weekly program presenting interviews with guests who provide information about aging related topics for older adults and their families. Launched in January 2017, the show is released each week as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other podcast sites and available on Mixcloud streaming service.
AGING MATTERS programs also air on community radio stations affiliated with Pacifica Network.
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Cheryl is also producer and host of a television version of AGING MATTERS. Begun in September 2018, the television show offers interviews with aging experts and demonstrations of how aging related subjects can benefit older adults’ lives. A series of programs called “Stories of Life” features accounts given by older adults about how their lives made a difference to them and their community.
AGING MATTERS TV episodes are available on YouTube and air weekly on Falls Church (VA) Community TV.
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In 2019, Cheryl was the recipient of the Hammond Award Arlington Independent Media (AIM) Producer of the Year for AGING MATTERS.
Before AGING MATTERS, Cheryl partnered with an elder mediation attorney to create Talking About the Tough Stuff, interactive dramatizations and commentary for families needing to have difficult conversations about aging issues.
She also helped establish Epilogue LLC, which offered support groups to help men and women over age 50 find new jobs or reinvent themselves in retirement.
Cheryl is a registered nurse and Vietnam era veteran, former chief staff executive of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans and three not-for-profit health associations. She was a staff member of the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and New York State Office of Federal Affairs, and a senior managing director with Hill & Knowlton.​