All Home Care Matters

All Home Care Matters is excited to welcome Marie Vaudry the founder of Gleam in Your Eye. Gleam in Your Eye is a dementia activity and resource that is helping families with loved ones with dementia stay active and engaged.

In 2021, Marie set out to create a more comprehensive experience that includes logical activities, while also addressing the sensory and physical needs of patients. Surrounded by a passionate team, she founded Gleam in Your Eye and developed an innovative product offering a monthly subscription box filled with fun and stimulating activities.

The boxes are delivered directly to the homes of patients, making life easier for caregivers. Each box includes five different games, designed to engage the senses, provoke logical thinking, invite play with words, stimulate artistic expression and encourage light physical moves.

Gleam in Your Eye is a monthly subscription box of games adapted for people with moderate dementia. Like everyone, these persons deserve a positive environment and interactions in their day-to-day lives. That’s why all the games have been designed to keep them entertained and stimulated.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome back, Marianne Sciucco R.N. the Co-Founder of AlzAuthors to talk about an important event that they will be hosting on June, 7th.

This event is virtual and is free for all who wish to attend. Caring for a father with a dementia diagnosis brings to caregiving its own special set of circumstances and considerations. In this AlzAuthors Live!

There will be a Virtual Q&A where the speakers will explore these changes and challenges.

The four speakers that will be featured are:

Andrea Couture: Author of "Embracing What Remains" (A Memoir)

Irene Olson: Author of "Requiem for the Status Quo (A Novel)

Patti Davis: Author of "The Long Goodbye" and "Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's (Memoirs and Caregiving Guide)

Tanya Ward Goodman: Author of "Leaving Tinkertown" (A Memoir)

Their stories will inspire and empower you on your own dementia journey with your dad. #dementia #authors #alzheimers Event Details The event is on Tuesday, June 7th at 2 pm EST via Zoom. You will receive the link to the event a day or so before.

The program will be recorded and added to the AlzAuthors YouTube channel. The event is free but donations are welcome.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Mr. John Ederer the founder and CEO of VerifyCare as our guest for an in-depth interview about how VerifyCare is helping to revolutionize the caregiving experience for families and their loved ones.

 

VerifyCare is a support app for any kind of caregiver. Keep a detailed record of caregiving duties provided for your Care Recipients. Use Tasks to track vitals like heart rate, blood pressure, and much more. Manage medications, organize schedules, view detailed graphs, and coordinate care with family and friends.

 

Invite others to the Care Team to keep extended family and friends informed about their care. With a caregiver app like VerifyCare, managing care has never been easier!

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Lucy Stewart, Associate Curator of Education, Carnegie Museum of Art to share an exciting new program at the museum called "Mindful Museum". The new "Mindful Museum" program is designed for visitors over 55 years old. The “Mindful Museum,” is a suite of accessible programs and activities that expand Carnegie Museum of Art as a destination that nurtures the mind, body, and soul for visitors over 55. Mindful Museum will begin in May 2022 and run through December 2022. The following are the programs that are being offered through the "Mindful Museum":

Art Paths | Wednesdays, all day, May 4 - December 28, 2022; on-site only.

Drop-In Drawing | 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 9:30 - 11 a.m.; on-site only.

Chair and Wheelchair Yoga | 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, 9:30 - 10:10 a.m.; on-site as well as access to online recordings.

Crash Course Art History Classes | Dates vary by month, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; on- site as well as access to online recordings.

The Bank: Access to online recordings | Available any time.

 

 

 

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome the founder of Phyxable, Dr. Jim Feng to the show for an in-depth interview about Phyxable and how to help seniors age in place safely.   Dr. Jim Feng is a graduate of University of Toronto with a Physical Health and Education Degree. From there, he attained his Doctor of Chiropractic from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. He has also completed theory levels 1 & 2 of the National Coaching Certification Program and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Sport First Responder, and Certified Titleist Performance Institute Medical Professional.   Dr. Jim Feng has made an extra effort in extending his knowledge in the human body by acquiring the Active Release Techniques (ART®) certification, as well as the Medical Contemporary Acupuncture provider designation through McMaster University.

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Senior Care professional Jennifer Lagemann as a guest to the show.

 

Jennifer Lagemann is a marketing and operations consultant, researcher, and journalist in the home care industry with a background as a family caregiver, professional caregiver and home care administrator.

 

All Home Care Matters works to provide families, caregivers, and healthcare professionals with resources and discussions on long-term care issues.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome a very special guest who has been helping to provide support, resources, tips, and research to families and caregivers who are caring for a loved one with dementia, Leah Waller the founder of DementiaTLC.

 

Leah runs DementiaTLC as a voluntary social media, website, blog and community forum to offer help, advice and support to those living with, and caring for loved ones with, Dementia. Dementia is not just black & white, there’s a lot of grey areas.

 

DementiaTLC's aim is to work together, help each other and support each other to make each moment count 🧡 Leah understands that Dementia is close to many of us, with many of us having experience with the condition impacting our lives.

 

The aim of DementiaTLC is to educate and provide support for all those affected by Dementia...those living with the condition, their loved ones, caregivers, family, friends, colleagues, professionals and all those that could benefit from a little bit of knowledge or support.

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome back the founder and president of Zaggo, Inc. Roberta Carson to the show for an in-depth discussion and demonstration of the ZaggoCare System.

 

This is Roberta's second time joining All Home Care Matters. During her first visit she shared her story about her son and how her journey as a caregiver for him had lead to her creating Zaggo, Inc.

 

Zaggo is a national nonprofit organization founded by Roberta in 2010. Zaggo is dedicated to providing patients and their family caregivers with the information and tools they need to become empowered, engaged, effective members of their medical teams for the best possible care.

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Denise Brown for an in-depth interview about caregiving and to learn about how she is helping to support family caregivers.

 

Denise launched The Caregiving Years Training Academy in April 2020 after selling CareGiving.com, an online community she launched in 1996 to Ohio’s Hospice. Through its blogs posts, podcasts and video chats, CareGiving.com held one of the largest online libraries of caregiving stories at the time of its sale. In addition to creating training program and support services for family caregivers, Denise helps her parents.

 

Denise began caring for her parents in 2004 after her father’s bladder cancer diagnosis. Her parents, now 90 and 87, live near Denise in their own apartment. In a video created for the American Cancer Society, Denise shared her own personal caregiving story.

 

A recent online story in The Wall Street Journal also included Denise’s caregiving experiences. Next Avenue named Denise a 2017 Influencer in Aging, one of “50 advocates, researchers, thought leaders, innovators, writers and experts who continue to push beyond traditional boundaries and change our understanding of what it means to grow older.”

All Home Care Matters welcomes the Co-Hosts of The Caring View Show. Mark Topps and Adam Purnell are leading advocates and thought leaders in the United Kingdom for the social care sector.

 

During this interview they share the impact that their advocacy in the United Kingdom has had in the social care sector. Throughout the interview we discuss multiple issues from the report that Adam had researched and created that led to him giving a speech to the House of Lords as well as Mark's petition drive that saw him garner over 500,000 signatures to help advocate for individuals with special needs during Covid to have access to testing and vaccines.

 

These two remarkable individuals are at the forefront of change for the social care sector and for care workers in the United Kingdom.