Edge of Aging

Nicole and Cooper speak with Tiffany Christensen, Vice President of Experience Innovation at The Beryl Institute, about the patient experience and how focusing care on that experience can improve outcomes.

As we conclude our two-part series, Cooper and Nicole continue their discussion with Greg Kotzbauer. This episode focuses on caregiving and how caregivers can play a key role for healthcare providers.

In the first of a two-part series, Nicole and Cooper have a discussion with Greg Kotzbauer on the lines between care providers and payers beginning to blur. Greg Kotzbauer is a Visiting Fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, the CEO of a health care strategy and analytics company he founded called ThynkNu, and the Chief Transformation Officer and Director of Research for Crossroads Hospice and Palliative Care.

Cooper and Nicole discuss how health care providers can be better prepared during natural disaster with Dean Lee of 3HC Home, Health and Hospice Care.

We welcome Mary Ann Baldwin to discusses the resistance by municipalities to granny flats and accessory apartments.

Cooper and Nicole welcome Mark Sharp and Raymond Belles with BKD for a chat on their findings after analyzing data on patient outcomes and payment data.

Nicole and Cooper sit down with Lisa Roberts, executive director of the the Alzheimer's Association Eastern North Carolina Chapter, as she tells her story of the Alzheimer's diagnosis that rocked her family and ultimately altered her career path.

Nicole and Cooper have a conversation with Melanie Bunn of Alzhiemer's North Carolina to envision how the health care system could better fit the needs of people with dementia.

Cooper and Nicole talk with Brigitte Specht of Sunrise Assisted Living about how assisted living communities are working towards a new paradigm of better care.

Nicole and Cooper discuss the shortcomings in the world of long term care with geriatrician Dr. Betty Lim.