Joy Loverde, best-selling author and eldercare visionary, speaks to important considerations on making housing decisions as you age, how to focus on transitions in response to change, and why you should always have older people in your life.

About Joy

Joy is the author of the best-seller, The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised & Updated 4th Edition and Who Will Take Care Of Me When I’m Old?  A seasoned keynote speaker and media spokesperson, Joy’s appearances include the Today show, CBS Early Show, ABC News, NPR and more. She is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time Magazine, and many others. USA TODAY ran a four-part series on her employee eldercare programs. Joy works with professionals as a mature-market consultant.  Visit Joy’s website: https://elderindustry.com   

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Dr. Lakelyn Eichenberger, gerontologist, and caregiving advocate, shares her work to educate, empower, and provide resources for family and professional caregivers.

About Lakelyn

Lakelyn Eichenberger, Ph.D. serves as gerontologist and caregiving advocate for Honor and Home Instead, the world’s largest providers of home care. Lakelyn began her career in a local Home Instead working one-on-one with aging adults. Today, she works to educate professionals, families and communities on the unique challenges older adults face and the resources available to help them thrive.

Lakelyn earned a PhD in Gerontology from the University of Nebraska. She has spoken nationally and internationally on the topic of caregiving and aging and serves as a resource to major media including Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. Lakelyn has a passion for helping others and giving back to her community. She is a board member of the National Alliance for Caregiving.

We are proud to have Lakelyn as an Advisory Board Member for Glowing Older!

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The Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Primetime Partners talks about building a fundamental infrastructure to improve the quality of living of older adults, including applied technology for financial longevity, caregiving, mental health, and resources for social determinants of health.

About Abby

Abby Miller Levy has spent her career helping businesses and consumer brands grow as an operator, entrepreneur, and advisor, most notably in the wellness sector. Prior to Primetime Partners, she was Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth at SoulCycle, where she oversaw business development and revenue growth outside the consumer studio business, with an emphasis on building new digital products. Abby teamed with Arianna Huffington to launch Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness. Abby served as President of Thrive Global and remains on the Thrive Board. Abby began her career at McKinsey & Company then led product development at OXO International. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. 

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The founder and CEO of Serenbe talks about the importance of fresh air, farm to table food, art, and education, and the community’s 20-year progression from breaking ground in 2004 to 500 houses, five restaurants, 35 businesses, and development of a leading-edge aging in place campus.

About Steve

Steve Nygren began his career in the hospitality industry, eventually starting a restaurant corporation that grew to 36 restaurants. In 1994, he and his wife Marie retired to a farm outside Atlanta, with their three daughters. Six years later, he became concerned about urban sprawl invading their adopted country paradise and in 2000 led the effort to create the Chattahoochee Hill Country Alliance to bring together landowners, developers, and conservationists to find a mutually agreed upon solution for balanced growth. Through two years, a land use plan was adopted to preserve 70% of the 40,000 acres on the edge of Atlanta while providing 20% more housing that traditional suburban sprawl yield.

 In 2004, the Nygren’s began the development of Serenbe interlacing agriculture with a range of housing choices mixed with shops, galleries, restaurants and a full-service Inn. The result is reminiscent of century old communities where many of your needs are within a walkable distance and neighbors know each other. Today, Steve serves as the CEO of Serenbe and lives in the community full-time.

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Scott Fulton, President of Home Ideations and The National Aging in Place Council®, is on a mission to improve the way people age. He shares his vision of aging well, which includes nutrition, exercise, connection, and community.

About Scott

Scott Fulton is a recognized health and longevity thought leader, celebrated for his pragmatic, systems approach to solving big challenges. He wears multiple hats as an accomplished business leader, adult educator, design consultant, and keynote speaker. Scott also serves on numerous community, national, and corporate Boards.

Driven by his dedicated mission to enhance public health and overall well-being, Scott serves as President of The National Aging in Place Council and is a proud member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

In his role as President of Home Ideations, Scott guides consumers and corporate clients to see opportunities in designing better solutions for tomorrow’s longevity needs. Notably, he recently designed and built a forward-looking home for his family that he calls the Livability Project, with functional design features for today’s longevity adults. A respected author, Scott has co-authored influential works such as "Eldercare 101," "Aging in Place Conversations," and "Longevity Lifestyle by Design." His latest project, "WHEALTHSPAN," is poised for release in late 2023.

As a co-host on "The Tattered Capes Podcast," Scott passionately shares his mission to foster awareness about the opportunities associated with aging, longevity, and the capacity to optimize for healthy and fulfilling lives. Beyond his intellectual pursuits, Scott is a multisport athlete, competing in numerous triathlon events, including two Ironmans.

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Syndicated columnist, author, and lecturer, Helen Dennis specializes in aging and the new retirement. Her more than 1,000 “Successful Aging” columns for the Southern California News Group reach 1.2 million readers weekly. 

About Helen

Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader on issues of aging and the new retirement with academic, corporate and nonprofit experience. She has received numerous awards for her university

Editor of two books, author of over 100 additional articles and frequent speaker, Helen is co-founder of Renewment®: and co-author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, "Project Renewment: The First Retirement Model for Career Women" (Scribner).  She has been recognized by PBS Next Avenue as one of the 50 influencers in aging. In her volunteer life she has been president of five nonprofit organizations and has been recognized with awards for her leadership.

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Pamela Toto, professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Occupational Therapy, shares details on the Pitt Healthy Home Laboratory which develops and evaluates technologies and home services to help people live safely and independently at home.

About Pam

Pamela Toto, PhD, OTR/L, BCG, FAOTA, FGSA, is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and senior scientist in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Healthy Home Laboratory. She is also a Doctor of Clinical Science in Occupational Therapy Program at the University of Pittsburgh, an online post-professional clinical doctorate focused on strategies to implement best evidence in clinical practice. She is an occupational therapist, researcher and educator who is internationally recognized within her field for her expertise in gerontology.

Board Certified in Gerontology and a Fellow of  the American Occupational Therapy Association and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Toto has over 30 years of clinical experience as an occupational therapist providing services for older adults in the community and in long term care settings. Dr. Toto’s clinical and research interests focus on the implementation of client-centered interventions in “real world” settings to promote independence, participation and healthy aging in older adults.  She is a national trainer

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The founder and CEO of Happy at Home Consulting in Iowa shares the company’s progression from humble roots to a sophisticated offering of home modification and wellness consultations, resource navigation, safety evaluations, and community partnerships.

About Sydney

Sydney Marshman, OTD, OTR/L, is the founder and CEO of Happy at Home Consulting based in Des Moines, Iowa. In her own family's struggles with keeping Nana safe at home, Sydney recognized the unique role of occupational therapy in assessing how environmental factors contribute to aging well at home. Happy at Home provides therapy at home to older adults with her team of physical, occupational and speech therapists. In addition to traditional rehabilitative services, Sydney continues to increase access to home safety evaluations throughout the state.

Happy at Home presently provides the evidenced-based programs CAPABLE and HARP through collaborations with community partners. Sydney is presently acting as the President-Elect of the Iowa Occupational Therapy Association and advocates for accessible housing through her involvement with multiple state coalitions. She received her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy from Drake University. In her free time, Sydney enjoys spending time with her husband, son, and their three dogs. 

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Senior Advisor of Trilogy Connect Scott Townsley talks about stagnation in senior living and how we prepare for the avalanche of aging consumers.

About Scott

Scott Townsley has more than 30 years’ experience in the senior living and senior care field.  He formed Trilogy Connect, LLC after serving as the managing principal of Third Age, Inc. – one of the largest firms dedicated to consulting and strategy for senior living organizations.  He was also a principal within the senior living practice of CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP.   Scott has worked with hundreds of organizations across the country as they have grappled with how to successfully navigate and drive change. He is known for his willingness to ask provocative questions and probe traditional thinking.

Scott has previously served as a Lecturer, Adjunct Associate Professor and Professor of the Practice with University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Erickson School, where he taught graduate courses on Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. He has also served as the Chair of the Advisory Committee for UMass Boston’s graduate program in the Management of Aging Services.   In 2016 he co-founded the Center for Innovation - a 501(c)(3) that sponsors The Green House Project.

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Carol Chiang, OTR/L, CAPS, ECHM, CHAMP, founder and CEO of Evolving Homes®, shares insights from her 25 years as an occupational therapist. As a “professional problem solver,” she helps clients create a personal advisory board to optimize their environment and quality of life.

About Carol

Carol Chiang is an Occupational Therapist, Aging in Place and AgeTech Expert. She is the founder of Evolving Homes® which specializes in luxury accessibility for homeowners designing their forever homes. She is the creator of Age in Place or Find a New Space®, a service which

Carol is an Aging in Place and AgeTech consultant for Toyota Research Institute, MITAgeLab, AARP and AARP AgeTech Collaborative where she teaches innovators what challenges their target markets face. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences including the Planning for Longevity Advisors Network Form at MIT, University of Florida’s Parkinsons Symposium, UBS’s Family Forum and the Rehab Tech

Carol is a former elite athlete, missing the 1996 Olympic Team cut by 1/10th of a second. She enjoys challenges and has climbed Mt. Kilamanjaro, lived abroad as an ex-pat and speaks multiple languages including English, French, Chinese. She is very active in her community as a Rotarian and has a special interest in building multi-generational relationships between teens and older adults in programs such as the MIT AgeLab Omega.

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