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The Caregiver's Journal hosted by Lance A. Slatton with Cindy (PT) & Christina (ST) Hardin-Weiss. The Caregiver's Journal is the show where we are sharing the caregiving experiences, stories, and wisdom of family caregivers. Chapter 15 - "Caregiving Love": About Mary Whitehead: Mark & I have been partners in life since our first date, a Heart concert, in 1978 followed by our marriage in 1979. Together we raised two children, and along the way we helped care and provide for parents & grandparents throughout their illnesses and aging in place or in senior...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton are honored to welcome Kimberly Anderson as guest to the show. About Kimberly Anderson, Director of Business Development at QuickChange Wrap for Men by UI Medical : Kimberly Anderson is the Director of Business Development at UI Medical, makers of the QuickChange® Wrap—a urine management device for men. With over 20 years in the medical field, she spent the last eight traveling nationwide to educate healthcare providers on QuickChange, previously serving as UI Medical’s Director of...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Natalie Black as guest to the show. About Natalie Black Chief Executive Officer, Comfort Keepers, North America: Natalie joined CK Franchising, Inc. in October 2023 as Chief Executive Officer. She is a passionate and highly intuitive leader with professional experience across the healthcare, financial services and entertainment industries. Natalie joined Sodexo in 2015 as Director of Strategy and Franchise Business Development and later served in...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Deanna Gerstel Harris as guest to the show. About Deanna Gerstel Harris: Deanna Gerstel Harris is a writer, director, producer, board-certified holistic health practitioner, and former creator of digital content for children with developmental disabilities. She was featured in Redbook Magazine’s “Heroes: 10 Moms Who Are Changing the Face of Autism.” A caregiver for over 20 years, Deanna has served as a Fellow with Caring Across Generations, a national organization working to transform the way we...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Michael Ellenbogen as guest to the show. About Michael Ellenbogen: Michael Ellenbogen was diagnosed with Young-Onset Alzheimer's Disease at the age of 49. Prior to his diagnosis, he was a network operations manager for a Fortune 500 financial institution. Difficulty with work-related tasks eventually led to his early retirement. As a world-renowned International Dementia Advocate & Connecter, he has been featured in nationally syndicated TV, radio and other media outlets. He has written for...
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The Care Advocates is brought to you by the All Home Care Matters Media team and focuses on providing family caregivers and their loved ones with support, resources, and discussion on the issues facing them in the matrix of long-term care. The Care Advocates are honored to welcome, Eryn Elder as guest to the show. About Eryn Elder: Eryn Elder, MA, is the author of Blooming Through Loss: Tending to Grief with the BloomPathTM. She is a certified grief and loss support specialist and an ICF-trained life coach and coach trainer who helps adults navigate the difficult journey...
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Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations." The topic of this episode is "Holistic Wellness & Seniors" featuring hosts Lori La Bey and Lance A. Slatton with guest, Dr. Shawn A. Weiss, PT, DPT, CDP, CADDCT, FPS. About Dr. Shawn A. Weiss, PT, DPT, CDP, CADDCT, FPS: Dr. Weiss is a powerhouse speaker, renowned Doctor of Physical Therapy, and Health Strategist with over 27 years of clinical mastery across the healthcare spectrum. A former healthcare executive turned visionary founder of The Senior Health and Wellness Group and Rockstar Health,...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome back the team behind the film "No Country for Old People" About "No Country for Old People": A filmmaker chronicles her mother’s last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing what is a national systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People; a Nursing Home Exposé is a scorching documentary posed to set the long-term care industry, policy makers, and the country ablaze. Shining a much-needed light on what is truly a national human emergency. No Country for Old...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Kitty Norton as guest to the show. About Kitty Norton: In 2016, Kitty Norton left her job as an NBC assistant editor in Los Angeles, for her hometown of Portland, Oregon, to walk, stumble, crawl with her dementia mother to death’s door. While doing so, she authored the dementia caregiver blog Stumped Town Dementia, writing tales of dementia life which resonated deeply with readers around the world. When her mother, Gloria, moved on to her next adventure in March of 2021, Kitty created and directed the dementia...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Elena Sallitto, Esq. as guest to the show. About Elena Sallitto, Esq.: Elena is one of the leading authorities on elder and disability planning law in Maryland. She is at the forefront of expert representation, teaching, and legislative reform. She works alongside the Alzheimer’s Association, the Maryland Chapter of AARP, aging life care specialists who coordinate home health, universities, and many other experts and advocates in her field. About Stavely & Sallitto Elder Law: Stavely...
info_outlineAll Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome the team behind the Dementia Care Family Support Program.
About Denise M. Brown:
Denise began supporting family caregivers in 1990, launching one of the first online caregiving communities in 1996. She trains Caregiving Consultants, Facilitators, Guides and Navigators. She cared for her father for almost 20 years and for her mother for 8 years.
She’s written 16 books for current and former family caregivers.
About Dr. Laura Gitlin:
Dr. Laura Gitlin is the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Plans4Care. She is an intervention scientist with over 40 years of experience in dementia care and research. Dr. Gitlin currently serves as a multiple Principal Investigator on several NIH-funded grants, where she leads the development and testing of innovative interventions to support people living with dementia and their caregivers.
About Eric Jutkowitz, PhD:
Eric Jutkowitz, PhD is the Co-founder and CEO of Plans4Care. He is health services focused on improving the nation’s long-term care system. He co-founded Plans4Care to bring evidence-based dementia care out of the university and into the hands of all family caregivers.
About the Dementia Care Family Support Program:
Our Certified Caregiving Consultants partnered with Plans4Care, a technology start-up to offer 5 coaching sessions to dementia family caregivers in order to resolve 3 care challenges.
We’ll share what we learned about using technology during coaching sessions, the common care challenges we addressed and the insights we gained from tracking our coaching sessions. We also will talk about what we learned about how to best support dementia family caregivers to help ease their stress and worries.