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Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations." The topic of this episode is "Holiday Traditions & Seniors" featuring hosts Lori La Bey and Lance A. Slatton. About Lori La Bey: Lori La Bey is the founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks and is co-founder of Dementia Map global resource directory and the co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L. Lori’s mother who lived with dementia for 30 years. Her goal has always been to shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world. She offers a variety of free resources to educate,...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Susanne White as guest to the show. About Susanne White: When Susanne was faced with the opportunity to care for her parents, she embarked on a caregiving journey that would change her life. She shares this journey on her website, CaregiverWarrior.cm, offering experience, strength, and hope to help others navigate caregiving with grace and empowerment. Known for her authentic style and deep insight from firsthand caregiving...
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Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations." The topic of this episode is "Holiday Gifts for Seniors" featuring hosts Lori La Bey and Lance A. Slatton. About Lori La Bey: Lori La Bey is the founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks and is co-founder of Dementia Map global resource directory and the co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L. Lori’s mother who lived with dementia for 30 years. Her goal has always been to shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world. She offers a variety of free resources to educate,...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Travis Partington as guest to the show. About Travis Partington: Travis Partington, a United States Marine Corps veteran, is the host and founder of Oscar Mike Radio. Partington’s interviewing style creates a welcoming environment where every story is valued, establishing Oscar Mike Radio as a true home for all veterans to share, heal, and support one another. Beyond the microphone, Travis is committed to serving his brothers and sisters in arms, raising awareness about programs and people who...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Consuela Marshall as guest to the show. About Consuela Marshall OT, CHAT, CDP CAPS, CGCP: Consuela Marshall is an occupational therapist with over 30 years of experience in hospitals, rehabilitation, and home health. Her path to occupational therapy began after her daughter was born with a physical disability, inspiring her to return to college and pursue a profession that would equip her to better support her child and others. Over the years, Consuela’s personal caregiving journey deepened as...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton are honored to welcome Nancy Nelson & Kat Hartley as guests to the show. About Nancy Nelson “dangle” Co-Founder, dangle & dot: Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2013, Nancy Nelson transformed fear into creativity and purpose. In the quiet hours following her diagnosis, she began writing words and phrases that seemed to “fall from the sky”—a healing practice that deepened her understanding of both her own and her father’s dementia journeys. Following a second diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Julio Barea as guest to the show. About Julie Barea, VP of Sales at Ally and CareTime: Julio Barea is the Vice President of Sales at CareTime and Ally, where he helps home care agencies and caregiver registries navigate the challenges of Medicaid and third-party billing. With years of experience in home care operations, Julio brings practical expertise on minimizing denials, staying audit-ready, and streamlining reimbursement. His insights combine both the business and regulatory side of billing, giving...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Josh H. Hickman as guest to the show. About Josh H. Hickman: Josh H. Hickman was born in Washington D.C. and raised in various parts of Texas. He studied painting and sculpture at the Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX, later studying writing and film at the University of Texas at Austin. A national award-winning journalist, his previous comic novels and short story collections include Through Tick & Tinn: The True Story of the Greatest Unknown Comedy...
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All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Krista Montague as guest to the show. About Krista Montague, CDP: Krista Montague, CDP, AT-BC. has managed and worked hands on de-escalating and engaging thousands of people with dementia as an Activity Therapist in a geri-psychiatric hospital that exclusively helps patients with challenging behaviors, worked in home health and in senior living. Krista has also taught communication and engagement skills which have gotten results/wins with challenging dementia behaviors for thousands of dementia...
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Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations." The topic of this episode is "Caring for Seniors" featuring hosts Lori La Bey and Lance A. Slatton. About Lori La Bey: Lori La Bey is the founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks and is co-founder of Dementia Map global resource directory and the co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L. Lori’s mother who lived with dementia for 30 years. Her goal has always been to shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world. She offers a variety of free resources to educate, empower,...
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About the Filmmakers and their Films:
Sept 8: Mary Crescenzo and her film, “Planet A”
Synopsis: Planet A
Planet A reveals the good, bad, and ugly secrets, thoughts and frustrations of past lives and present realities of Alzheimer’s patients, their caregivers and family members. Follow Pauline and others who reside at a care home, when an arts practitioner working with residents unlocks the door to this world through an interwoven narrative of monologues and dialogs from distinct points of view. Planet A bears witness to both inhabitants and visitors who enter this terrain and shines a light in the darkness of this disease. Enter this land of revelation and unintentional masquerade where anyone can be called to reside.
Sept 22: Susie Singer Carter and her film, “No Country For Old People”
Synopsis: “No Country For Old People”
A filmmaker chronicles her mother's last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing the systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People 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, it is a clarion call for serious change.
October 6th: Frank Silverstein and his film “Lousy: Love in the Time of Dementia”
Synopsis: LOUSY: Love in the Time of Dementia
LOUSY: Love in the Time of Dementia is a front-row seat to ground-game dementia: its impact on my parents’ life and our family’s response. My parents cling to each other— singing, shouting and dancing— defying a world that overwhelms them. This film documents how their love helps them cope with their dementia and each other, and explores how this reality has restructured our family connections to each other and to the world. Full of painful humor and raw emotion, the film watches our family responding in real time, as we are forced to revise our relationships and rules for engagement on the fly.
November 10th: Kitty Norton and her documentary "Wine, Women, and Dementia"
Synopsis: "Wine, Women, and Dementia:
The documentary feature, Wine, Women, & Dementia, tells the tale of dementia life through the lens of the family caregivers who strive to accept the beauty and the brutality, the hilarious and the horrific - for themselves and their dementia person. It is a road trip around the U.S. in celebration of family caregivers and that swinging dementia lifestyle. Over glasses of wine the caregivers swap tales of love, humor, devotion, and death and most importantly how to honor LIFE on the long road to death.
December 8th: C. Nathan Brown and his film, “The Present”
Synopsis: "The Present":
Celebrating Christmas isn't the same for Mya and her family since her mother died from Alzheimer's disease. But a Christmas miracle could be in store.
Connect and Register for the AlzAuthors Film Festival: Official Website: https://www.alzauthors.com