All Home Care Matters

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome back the team from PHOTAVIA and Lori Snow from Spiro100.

Joe Hausch is President/CEO/CCO/Co-Founder, Investor and a Director. He has been part of day-to-day operations since 2014, raising funding, building a team and evaluating all opportunities in order to maintain controlled growth and profit expectations. He also owns and manages Hausch Design Agency specializing in building brands. Entrepreneur, Inventor, Artist, Designer, Musician; Joe has been doing Strategic/Creative Services for start-ups, small businesses and consulting not-for-profit organizations in Wisconsin since 1984.

Clients have included NFL HOF QB Brett Favre to Bemis Corporation. Penfield Children’s Center to PHOTAVIA. As CEO/CCO he oversees PHOTAVIA’s day-to-day operations, maintaining awareness, and the shaping of its external and internal landscape. Joe has helped build over 500 brands, from startup to Fortune 500 and has personally been a vested part of 6 startups to date.

John Wright, CAPS, CSSP, Channel Partner/Affiliate, National Sales/ Sanus Lifestyle Solutions, Owner, Senior Living and Technology executive with 21+ years of progressive leadership experience that optimizes financial and operational performance. Extensive experience in all aspects of senior living, age in place, and revenue cycle management.

A successful career spent building healthcare strategies, launching impactful technology solutions, and growing diverse senior living businesses. Has strong entrepreneurial acumen and business development skills which led to partnerships with in-home care providers and senior living communities nationally.

Roger Anunsen is a former trial attorney who, for over two decades, has been breaking new Applied Brain Science ground in higher education and by designing and testing non-pharmaceutical cognitive interventions. From 2011 to 2022, Roger taught college neuroscience courses based on two textbooks that he co-authored, The Aging Mind and Cognitive Activity Design. After 11 years, Roger stepped away from teaching and is now dedicating his time to research with companies such as PHOTAVIA. 

Lori Snow is the VP of Strategic Partnerships. 

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Kristin Nelson as a guest to the show. Kristin is the founder and CEO of Audivi Memory Banks.

About Kristin Nelson:

Kristin Nelson is Founder/CEO of Audivi Memory Banks, a business inspired by her experience as a caregiver for her mother with dementia. Seeing firsthand how her mother's long-term memories provided comfort and familiarity, Kristin developed Audivi Memory Banks to help individuals & families save and play back memories, anytime, anywhere, with the click of a button. Prior to this work, Kristin served for over 20 years on the senior leadership team of Partners In Health, an international nonprofit dedicated to providing quality health care to the poorest of the poor. Kristin is passionate about ensuring provision of services to those who need them most: in this case, memories to those losing their memory. She has been certified as a Dementia Care Practitioner, a UCLA Memory Trainer, and is an Advisor at University of Vermont's Women in Leadership Program at the Grossman School of Business.

About Audivi Memory Banks:

Audivi Memory Banks is an app-based reminiscing activity and tool. Ask a question, record a memory, upload a photo & play back memories anytime, anywhere with the click of a button. Audivi's audio-visual platform creates an engaging trip down memory lane that ensures on-going access to memories and the benefits of reminiscing. For those experiencing memory loss, Audivi Memory Banks provide a comforting touchstone to the past, a springboard to connect & converse, and a tool for caregivers to redirect moments of anxiety, confusion, irritability.

Conscious Caregiving with L & L heard you and we have answered! We are proud to share with you an exclusive interview with Lance A. Slatton & Lori La Bey. Lance A. Slatton is co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L and the host of All Home Care Matters. Lance's professional job is as a senior case manager at Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, MI. In 2023 Lance was named a 50 under 50 for 2023. Lance is a regular writer for McKnight's Home Care News, DailyCaring.com, and AgeBuzz. Lori La Bey is co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L and has been a pillar of the dementia community for many years and is was recognized as a top influencer in the arena of dementia. Lori is also the host of Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, Co-Founder of Dementia Map, and author of "Betty the Bald Chicken: Lessons in How to Care". Lori has been recognized by Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Oz, and Maria Shriver for her tireless work and advocacy for families, caregivers, and loved ones living with dementia.

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a good friend of show as our guest, Dr. George Ackerman the found of TogetherForSharon.

Dr. George Ackerman is from Brooklyn, N.Y. Now residing in Florida, he works in the fields of law, police, and education. George lost his mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman on 1/1/2020 due to Parkinson’s Disease.

George wanted to honor his mother and continue to help in the Parkinson’s awareness cause and did not know how to bring change. With my family, we started TogetherForSharon® as a family for the purpose of keeping my mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman’s, memory alive and to share the message of Parkinson’s Awareness and hope for a cure.

Today https://www.togetherforsharon.com/ reaches thousands of individuals across the country for PD Awareness. George currently interviews individuals throughout the Parkinson’s community including various foundations, caregivers, and Parkinson’s warriors to help share their stories and causes.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome award winning author, Tracy Cram Perkins as guest to the show.

An award winning author, Tracy Cram Perkins is a four-time dementia caregiving survivor with sixteen-years of experience caring for four family members with dementia. She is the author of Dementia Home Care, How to Prepare Before, During and After. It is her mission to supply caregivers with proven shortcuts to reduce the stresses of dementia care. 

Tracy teaches hands-on solutions for reducing repetitive questions, melt downs, and wandering. She includes tips using simple, inexpensive fixes found at hardware and office supply stores. 

Summary of "Dementia Home Care: How to Prepare Before, During, and After": 

Dementia Home Care meets an unmet emotional need that bridges the isolation and the not knowing what to do that comes with dementia care. Written with the caregiver in mind, the book is large print and easy to read. It is designed for the stressed-out caregiver, supplying them multiple options to try or mix and match to meet their loved one’s ever-changing needs.

It teaches how to use the hardware and office supply stores to make a home more dementia friendly on a budget, how to prepare for emergencies and how to distract and redirect a loved one. It gives caregivers a tool to identify why their loved one is melting down and steps to prevent the meltdown that can be shared with respite caregivers, family members, and friends. 

It reduces the stresses of dementia care--giving and receiving. It contains 130+ resources and services from adaptive clothing to wandering prevention. It includes resources for those in underserved communities, including financial and legal resources. It addresses care for those with English as a second language, and the Deaf and LGBTQIA+ communities, and includes resources for people of color and Spanish speaking communities. 

For those in rural communities with access to the internet, it supplies links for global resource directories for services they could not find locally. It is a dementia map, how-to manual, and toolbox for readers to flip to the page that meets the challenges of the day from diagnosis to beyond death.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome back Becky Reel the founder of Reel Home Care Consulting. After 15 years in marketing and sales with Fortune 500 companies, Becky took over her family’s home care business, For Papa's Sake Home Care in Chicago. When Becky stepped in, For Papa’s Sake was in complete disarray and headed towards bankruptcy. Under Becky’s leadership, she transformed For Papa's Sake’s reputation and brand, grew revenue over 300% year over year along with receiving countless awards for Business Leadership, Provider of Choice, Employer of Choice, and Leader in Excellence from Home Care Pulse. In addition, in 2022, For Papa's Sake was ranked the #1 home care agency in North America by Home Care Pulse. In 2023, Becky successfully sold For Papa's Sake to Avid Health at Home. She launched Reel Home Care Consulting; a coaching and consulting firm focused on improving our home care industry as a whole and working directly with agencies to address their individual needs. She works with both independent and franchises to increase revenue, develop and streamline processes, improve work/life balance for their employees and beyond. Becky is an active member of the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Directors for a local non-profit FamilyForward. In addition, Becky was awarded ‘Business Leader - Heart of Gold Award’ in 2022 through the Village of Arlington Heights. She resides in Arlington Heights with her husband and 2 young children, Hazel and Harrison.

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Michelle Gomes and Michelle Costa the co-founders of Evaheld as guest to the show.

Michelle Gomes was the MD of a Sydney based marketing and communications content production agency, specializing in financial services until she resigned to focus solely on Evaheld. For nearly a decade, she had also been volunteering to help people in their end of life period create memorialisation content, delivering it for them posthumously, and this was how the idea for Evaheld was born.

Michelle Costa has had a long career in the finance and banking industry and is currently a Chapter Lead for a team of Business Analysts at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Michelle’s experience with caring for a father who suffered through a long and arduous battle with dementia, and the sad realization that she did not possess any audio or video content of him once it was too late, and was her catalyst for Co-founding Evaheld.

About Evaheld:

Preserve your personal and family legacy for loved ones and future generations. Evaheld helps people privately create and safe-keep messages and memorialization content, resting assured that they will be securely and independently delivered to your loved ones and memorialized as intended, posthumously.

Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations."

The topic of this episode is on Seniors and the Holidays Co-Hosts, Lance A. Slatton and Lori La Bey.

During this discussion Lance and Lori discuss and share common issues that may arise for families and their loved ones during the holiday season and offer and explore tips, suggestions, and resources to help ensure a joyous holiday season.

Lance A. Slatton is the host of All Home Care Matters and Lori La Bey is the founder of Alzheimer's Speaks and the co-founder of Dementia Map.

Visit Conscious Caregiving with L & L "Tackling the Tough Conversations" for more resources, tips, and conversations on the tough issues by visiting their official website: https://consciouscaregivingll.com/