Coffee with Jon: Caregiver Success

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Imagine standing around in the middle of a huge cemetery. As you look around, what do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel?

Rows of tombstones, a sea of names? Dates inscribed long ago?

For Mike O'Krent, he sees thousands of stories never told, wisdom and life blessings never shared.

Our loved ones, have life stories that need to be preserved and shared. But how do we do this?

Today, we're having coffee Mike O'Krent.

Mike is the author of the book, "A Conversation You'll Never Forget: A guide to capturing a life story." He is passionate about making sure that our loved one's stories never die.

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As a family caregiver, you really are doing the Lord's work. In many ways, you've stopped your whole world, perhaps moved to a new city so you can devote all of your resources caring for a loved one.

But what happens when it's over?

Hopefully, they've recovered, but possibly, they've passed away. Your work as a family caregiver is finished, and you may now feel empty and lost.

Today, we're going to talk about that transition

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Massaratis...

This is a podcast for Family Caregivers, Academic Researchers, Healthcare Technology Innovators, Professional Caregivers, Social Workers, and Massaratis

That's right, I said, Massarratis...and Ferrarri's

Every race car driver needs a pit crew...a support team that helps them win the race.

If you're working in Healthcare, especially as a family caregiver, you probably feel like you are just trying to survive the next lap.

You need a pit crew...

But how do you identify  your pit crew? How do you help them help you?

On this episode, we are going to help you find your pit crew!

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Currently, in much of society, we have a mental model or meme of "aging and disability" as a defecit model...what you can't do. With the rapid developments in technology, especially around AI and Robotics, this model is changing.

Today, we're having coffee with Dr. Deborah Vollmer Dahlke. Deborah is both an Academic Researcher and entreprneuer.

As an entrepenuer, she co-founded Zilliant, a successful enterprise pricing optimization software company, and led the firm in raising over $14 million in venture capitalization.

Deborah is a Director with the Texas Life Science Foundation, and a leader in helping to develop Texas' biotech ecosystem.

On this episode, we are going to have a conversation about Robots, AI, adn Innovative Tech...and how these are creating new recipes for aiding and expanding Quality of Life for Older Adults.

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It's never a good thing when you need to get a hold of your doctor, and it's always difficult. Even during an in-person visit, you only have a few minutes to speak with the doctor, and what happens if you think of "one last question" you wish you had asked as soon as you get home?

HIPAA and other regulations certainly don't help either. You can't just send a quick text or email to your doctor...Or can you?

Today, we're going to be talking about the "WhatApp of Healthcare." This technology provides a HIPAA Compliant framework of technology that simplifies healthcare and empowers patients to easily communicate with their doctors.

In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals.

Our guest today is Clint Phillips, founder of Medici and his BHAG is "To be the world's most inspiring & innovative healthcare company. 1 million doctors helping 1 billion patients."

His vision is to create technology that would revolutionize the way doctors provide care to their patients.

And as a serial entrepreneur with a track record of success, Clint just may realize his vision.

Learn more about Medici and Clint

Visit their website at Medici.md

Doctors Are Overloaded

Doctors are bogged down. They are buried with regulatory requirements, administrative hurdles and downward pressure on their own costs to run their practices. This burden is increasingly taking time away from doctors’ ability to focus on what really matters: providing great care for patients. These pressures take away from doctors’ work-life balance, too. More than half of doctors say they regret going to medical school and wouldn’t do it over again if they had to. While average salaries have increased for specialty doctors in the US over time, incomes have remained flat for most doctors in family practice, dermatology, pediatrics, cardiology and oncology. 

Patients also face a growing burden, carrying more of their own healthcare costs and spending an average of 121 minutes on each medical office visit they have. Out of necessity, they want more convenience and alternatives to care that save them time and money. 

We Believe It’s Time for a Change

Medici is focused on the future of healthcare for doctors and patients. We offer a simple, effortless and convenient communication tool that allows doctors to unchain themselves from their medical offices while still taking great care of patients.

Gone is the need for low-value office visits to recoup costs or complex hardware integrations to build a virtual practice. Medici is built for doctors and focused on being effortless by using technology to streamline and positively impact the patient experience. With Medici, doctors can now generate new revenue from the after-hours busy work that was previously provided for free. 

Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember, he's one too. Say, caregiver, are you depressed? Has your situation come to a place where you are really down under it all and you feel depressed? You're pressed, and you feel that there must be something that can be done to help you? Well, I'm so glad to be here for this minute and a half to tell you. Don't think it's strange when you fall into one of these fiery trials that tries you. This is what Peter writes in his first letter. I don't think it's some strange thing that happened under you. It happens to a lot of people. What's the answer? Well, the answer is rejoice. Yeah, rejoice. You say over what? Well, in as much as you're a partaker of Christ's sufferings that His glory shall be revealed, that you may be glad with exceeding joy. Is that what you need? Exceeding joy? Yeah,

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Dementia is not a disease in itself. Rather, it is a broad name referring to a long-term and gradual deterioration of a person’s mental ability. The condition can be severe enough to obstruct the sufferer’s daily life. Put simply, dementia occurs when the brain cells stop working as they should, affecting the person’s ability to think, remember, and communicate. Its usual symptoms include the difficulty of reasoning and thinking, gradual memory loss, and deteriorating communication skills.

As Family and Professional Caregivers it is important that we properly understand dementia so we can provide the best care to our patients and loved ones. Dr. Michael Chua is a physical therapist that pracitces in Homes, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Acute Care Hospital environments. His clinical interest involves pain management, geriatrics and dementia management. He is also the Chief Inspirational Officer for TN Therapy Outsource and the author of MisUnderstanding Dementia.

MisUnderstanding Dementia

Dementia is not a disease in itself. Rather, it is a broad name referring to a long-term and gradual deterioration of a person’s mental ability.

The condition can be severe enough to obstruct the sufferer’s daily life.

Dementia occurs when the brain cells stop working as they should, affecting the person’s ability to think, remember, and communicate. Its usual symptoms include the difficulty of reasoning and thinking, gradual memory loss, and deteriorating communication skills.

The most common type of dementia is caused by Alzheimer’s, which accounts for 60 - 80% of the cases.

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Good Word for Cargivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember, he's one too. Are you a bit confused right now? I mean, you've had to make so many decisions as a caregiver and then you have these decisions that there could be one, two, three or more things that you could choose and you don't really know which one and you feel a bit confused about it all. In fact, you're just flat frustrated right now. Can I encourage you to do what the New Testament says to do in the Bible? If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that gives to all men liberally and it shall be given him.

Yes, you can have the wisdom of God and not feel this frustration that you're feeling, this confusion that you're having. I want you to know you can do better than that. How? Well, you trust in the Lord with all your heart and you don't lean to your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and he shall direct your paths. Yes, he wants to direct you. You don't have to be confused, He can tell you, "This is the way. Walk in it. This is the path. Take this one." Don't try to make it just your own thoughts and understanding, rely on the understanding and the wisdom of almighty God and you will do so much better, and you won't have this confusion. God cares for caregivers. Remember he's one too.

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Dr. Michael Chua is a physical therapist that practices in homes, skilled nursing facilities and acute care hospital environment. His clinical interests involve around pain management, geriatrics, and dementia management. He’s also the Chief Inspirational Officer for Tennessee Therapy Outsource and the author of MisUnderstanding Dementia. Dr. Michael, welcome to the show.

Dr. Mike Chua: Again, thank you very much for having me here in your show, Jon, I really appreciate it. Thank you for creating and starting this podcasts. We really need more of this type of shows and podcasts so we could educate more of caregivers out there, so thank you.

Jon: You’re welcome, my pleasure. Let’s start with this,

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The thing that gets most businesses (including Senior Living Providers) into trouble more than anything else is assuming the way things worked before will continue to work.

How do great Senior Living providers become even better? Do they need access to more and new information, or do they need an environment where they can look at existing conditions in different ways? Where can Senior Living providers...and vendors that serve them, go to ask hard questions and tackle difficult issues?

Steve Moran is a nationally known and sometimes controversial writer and speaker in the senior living industry. He publishes the online senior living website Senior Housing Forum where the core value is to publish articles, videos, podcasts and other resources that help senior living providers do a better job serving residents, team members and the local marketplace community. He has developed and operated large and small senior living communities and has worked with senior living communities to create better more productive cultures.

Learn more about Steve

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Senior Housing Forum is a website that is focused on publishing articles that are of interest to developers and operators of senior living communities.

There are 6 fundamental principals behind Senior Housing Forum

* We are Not Primarily a News Source – There are already several great free and paid sites that provide current senior living news, we are more focused on asking two questions:

* What does it mean?

* How will it impact the industry?

* We Question  Everything –  The thing that gets industries and businesses into trouble more than anything else is assuming the way things worked before (something that may in itself be an assumption that is not true) will continue to work.   We ask hard questions and tackle difficult issues.

* We Love Comments – It is of course great fun to get comments that agree with what our writers say, but we love contrary positions even more.  It is those comments that make the industry better.

* We Don’t Moderate Comments –  If you write a comment it will get published (unless of course it is SPAM and we have a pretty good filter for that.) Since we published our first article we have not removed more than one or two comments and never removed a comment because the opinion was contrary.

* We Are Curious People –  All of the regular writers are very curious people who know they don’t know it all.  We are always learning and challenging our own assumptions.

* We are Not Perfect –  Because of this we welcome comments, suggestions and criticisms and corrections of typos.

Good Word for Caregivers

God loves caregivers. Did you know that? Remember, he's one too. Say, it's good to share some good news with you, particularly if you're feeling a little bit blah, and that can happen. When you've expended your energies and you've gone beyond and you've given and you've given and then you had to give some more and you weren't quite ready for that and you're just into the blahs.

Well, let me tell you something. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Well, they will mount up with wings as eagles, they will run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Maybe you feel weary and faint and the blahs have taken over. What do you do? Wait on the Lord.

What does that mean, wait? Well, I think for one thing, it means linger in his presence. Stay in his presence for a while. I know we live and move and have our being in him,

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Telehealth is an area of tremendous innovation. With the advancements in technology in recent years, world-class healthcare is becoming readily available in many hard to reach and underserved areas of our country.

Behavorial Healthcare can never get enough attention. Often, it is a part of health that we forget about and then suffer from later as it manifests.

Christine Certain serves as the Senior Director of Clinical Impact and Business Development at Children’s Home Society of Florida. She is a leader in innovative healthcare solutions and is responsible for overseeing clinical partnerships that increase efficiencies and drive the impact of health services. Christine led the implementation of telehealth business lines with more than 200 therapists and physicians.

She is a recognized expert on breaking down barriers to care for Florida’s most underserved children.

Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for caregivers. Remember he's one too. Remember the old song What A Friend We Have In Jesus. And then it says, "Carry everything to him in prayer. So that means everything, if it's in Hebrew or in Greek or in English, it means everything. Take it all to him. Just call out to him, cast your care on him, because he cares for you.

It was Jesus who said in John's gospel, "You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it." So I guess I'm wanting to tell you it's time to pray. Why worry when you can pray? Trust Jesus, he'll be your stay. Don't be a doubting Thomas, trust fully in God's promise. Why worry, worry, worry, when you can pray?

And you can pray, it's just as simple as a conversation that you share with him right now. Talking to him and saying, "You're my friend. Oh Jesus, you're my friend. I'm carrying everything to you and I'm gonna cast it on you in prayer." And he's gonna say, "Good. That's exactly what I want you to do." So do it right now, it's a good time. God cares for caregivers. Remember he's one too.

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Jon:                     Today, we’re having coffee with Christine Certain. Now Christine serves as the Senior Director of Clinical Impact and Business Development at Children’s Home Society of Florida. She is a leader in innovative healthcare solutions and is responsible for overseeing clinical partnerships that increase efficiencies and drive the impact of health services.

Jon:                     Christine led the implementation of the Telehealth Business Line with more than 200 therapists and physicians. She is a recognized expert in breaking down barriers to care for Florida’s most underserved children. Christine, welcome to the show.

Christine:           Thank you Jon, and thank you for having me on the show today. I’m excited to be here.

Jon:                     Well we’re excited to have you. Now, the first question that I have is, can you define behavioral health? And then, how are you innovating with Telehealth?

Christine:           Sure. So I think that’s a great question and definitely one worth going over, is the definition of behavioral health services. So often we think of behavioral health and mental health as really the deep end diagnosis and people with pretty chronic and severe conditions.

Christine:           But what we don’t think about are all of the opportunities t...

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As a Chief Medical or Compliance Officer, your work demands extreme attention to detail. In addition to the new technologies that are coming online on a daily basis, you have to manage the technologies that you are currently using. Despite technology innovator's best efforts, recalls are and will continue to be a reality. Today, we're going to have coffee with Guillermo Ramas and a conversation that focuses on improving care.

We're having coffee with Guillermo Ramas. Guillermo is developing healthcare innovations through data and technology. His company, Notisphere is helping healthcare professionals manage recall events and giving them back hundreds of hours of their time while reducing costs, and increasing patient safety.

Learn more about Guillermo and Notisphere

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Our Mission Is To Enable The Quick and Effective Resolution to All Recall Events

At NotiSphere, we are working with organizations across the industry to transform the way medical recalls are managed today. Together, we are challenging the status quo of a broken process that can be fixed and driven by the shared focus to improve the delivery of care.

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Good Word For Caregivers

Say, are you anxious? Are you sensing anxiety or the situation you're in it just doesn't seem to get better? Sometimes you think it's getting worse and it's just such a drag? Anxiety, worry, care, frustration. Listen, all your anxiety and all your care bring to the mercy seat. Leave it all there. I take this from a scripture that I find in Philippians 4, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your request to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."

So, your heart, and your mind, the seat of your emotions, the seat of your thoughts, that's where a lot of the problems are, aren't they? That's where anxiety is. It's in your thinking, and is in your feeling. And those anxieties can get bigger and they get much bigger at night when it's in the dark, it just multiplies and your care gets heavier and heavier. You've just got to know that if you'll take it to God in prayer. Yeah, make your request known in petition. Yes, petition him for what you have of, the peace of God is yours. The peace of God is yours. He shares it. He gives it in abundance. You cannot know until you ask. And when you ask you'll be so glad you did. Because we have not because we ask not.

So, we go on with our anxieties and our cares. No, no, leave it there. Cast it all on Him, because He cares for you. God cares for caregivers. Remember, He's one too.

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Welcome back. We’re having coffee with Guillermo Ramas. Guillermo is developing healthcare innovations through data and technology. His company Notisphere is helping technology professionals manage recall events and giving them back hundreds of hours of their time while reducing costs and increasing patient safety. Well, welcome to the show, Guillermo.

Guillermo Ramas: Thanks, Jon. Thanks for having me.

Jon: The first thing is give us a little bit of insights into the day in the life of healthcare manufacturers, as well as compliance officers as it relates to recalls.

Guillermo Ramas: Sure, that’s a good question. What most people don’t know today is that there’s an enormous amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to execute on a recall. When a manufacturer decides or has to, because they’re mandated at some cases. Sometimes they’re voluntary,

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For many family caregivers, the question each day is "how do I survive caregiving." Today, we're going to share not only how to "survive" caregiving, but how to survive with Sanity and a Sense of Humor. Our guest is going to share Real life stories, practical tips, and how healing humor will help you communicate better with your loved one.

After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Jim found himself overnight in the Reverse Role of his Parents Parent.

In ten years of caregiving, he's learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father's deafness and his mother's dementia. Through it all Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor...and in the process he forged a deeper, more intimate relationship with his parents.

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Good Word For Caregivers

God cares for care givers. Remember, he's one, too. I remember a song from my younger years that said, "No one understands like Jesus. He's a friend beyond compare. Meet Him at the throne of mercy. He's waiting for you there," and what I learned in my younger years that that was true, even now in my older years, I find it to be so. That he's the friend who understands like nobody else.

Maybe you don't feel that anybody can understand what you're going through, and you may be right. There are people who are not in your situations, so they really can't quite understand, but I will tell you there is somebody who feels it with you. He feels it all and He, as a caregiver, understands. He knows. He knows. In fact, He tells us, "Greater love has no one than this, than he lay down his life for his friends." Well, He did that in his carry, and maybe you feel like you're laying down your life for this one that you care for so much, or you're giving so much of yourself.

Well, understand that you can gain strength and energy, help and grace, and He is the one who can give it to you. So, don't forget that. You see, you're His friend, and as a friend, He wants to help you. Let Him help you, dear friend, right now, today. God cares for caregivers. Remember, He's one, too.

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Welcome back to Coffee with Jon. Today, we’re having coffee with Jim Comer. After his father suffered a massive stroke and his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Jim found himself overnight in the reverse role of his parents’ parent. In 10 years of caregiving, he’s learned to deal with hospitals, insurance companies, rehab centers, his father’s deafness, and his mother’s dementia. Through it all, Jim has kept his sanity and sense of humor, and in the process, he forged a deeper and more intimate relationship with his parents. Jim, welcome to the show.

Jim: You always make me sound so much better than I really am. I was listening to it, and all of a sudden, I was kind of thrown back to February the 20th, 1996, when I was sound asleep in my apartment out in Los Angeles, where I was working as a speech writer for a CEO, and I get this call from my parents’ next door neighbor in Dallas. I’m sound asleep. I reach for the phone and I hear the voice of the neighbor who has never called me in 34 years.

Jon: Wow.

Jim: And in that one, when I heard her name: Lisa Huff, I went totally awake and in two seconds, I was awake, and I knew the next sentence was gonna be terrible, and she’s telling me that my father is wandering around in the front yard in a daze, and she thinks he’s having a stroke, and of course, she was right.

Jon: Wow.

Jim: And within 10 hours,