All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services
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All Home Care Matters is an informative podcast and YouTube show that helps viewers and listeners learn about resources, tips, & discussion on all things home care.

  1. 3d ago

    Josh Bowie Founder of Creative Reach

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome Josh Bowie, founder of Creative Reach, as a guest to the show. In this insightful conversation, Josh joins Lance to discuss how leaders can bring clarity, structure, and measurable results to organizations when growth stalls, systems break down, teams become overwhelmed, and operational chaos begins getting in the way of the mission. With more than 20 years of experience across marketing, operations, data, product, customer experience, and commercial strategy, Josh has built a career around helping organizations identify what is not working, understand why it is not working, and create systems that can support sustainable growth. Lance and Josh discuss how these challenges can affect home care agencies, senior living organizations, healthcare companies, nonprofits, and other mission-driven organizations. They explore why maintaining consistency across teams and locations can be difficult, how leaders can identify operational breakdowns, and why having a strong idea is only the beginning if the systems needed to support it are not in place. The conversation also explores artificial intelligence and automation. Josh shares his perspective on the difference between technology that genuinely helps overwhelmed teams and technology that simply creates more noise and complexity. Josh and Lance also discuss data and measurement, why organizations can collect enormous amounts of information without understanding what it is actually telling them, and how stronger operational visibility can lead to better decision-making. Throughout his career, Josh has helped organizations address major operational and growth challenges, including unlocking $14.5 million in revenue from a broken data system, reducing operational costs by 35%, improving customer satisfaction by 65%, and building go-to-market strategy, commercial operations, measurement, product, and customer success functions for an early-stage health and genomics company. For leaders in home care, senior living, healthcare, nonprofits, health technology, and caregiving organizations, this conversation highlights the importance of simplifying complexity, building stronger systems, and creating the structure teams need to focus on the work that matters most. About Josh Bowie: Josh Bowie, MBA, is the founder of Creative Reach and a fractional marketing and commercial operations leader with more than 20 years of experience across marketing, data, operations, product, customer experience, and organizational growth. Josh has worked with organizations ranging from a 100+ location retail grocer to an early-stage health and genomics startup, helping leaders transform big ideas into structured, measurable, and sustainable operations. He founded Creative Reach around one of the defining skills of his career: stepping into complicated situations, identifying what is preventing an organization from moving forward, and turning operational chaos into systems that make sense. Josh also supports founders and nonprofit leaders doing meaningful work in health awareness and community impact and regularly participates in panels focused on helping organizations find greater clarity and sustainable growth. About Creative Reach: Creative Reach helps founders and organizational leaders turn big ideas on paper into systems that work in practice. The company works with early-stage founders, growing organizations, and established businesses facing challenges related to marketing, operations, data, measurement, customer experience, workflow automation, go-to-market strategy, and organizational growth. Creative Reach's focus is simple: replace scattered execution and operational chaos with clarity, structure, consistency, and measurable results.

    Josh Bowie Founder of Creative Reach

  2. 4d ago

    A Conversation with Crystal Gallo Founder of Innerhive

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome Crystal Gallo, Founder and CEO of Innerhive, as a guest to the show. In this important conversation, Crystal joins Lance to discuss the rapidly changing landscape of family caregiving, the growing number of individuals providing care at home, and why better organization, communication, and coordination will be essential as America prepares for an unprecedented demand for care. Crystal shares how nearly two decades of building teams and growing high-impact technology companies ultimately led her to a deeper purpose through her own experience with family caregiving and inspired the creation of Innerhive. The discussion explores the dramatic growth of family caregiving in the United States and what caregiving looks like today as more care takes place inside the home. Crystal and Lance discuss the increasing responsibilities being placed on families, the realities facing the professional caregiving workforce, and why simply hiring more caregivers may not be enough to meet the country's growing care needs. With every baby boomer reaching age 65 or older by 2030, families, professional caregivers, home care organizations, healthcare providers, and communities will increasingly need to find better ways to work together and support one another. Lance and Crystal also discuss an important challenge that exists in many homes: there are often two care teams supporting the same person — the professional care team and the family care team — yet those teams may not always have access to the same information or understand the complete picture of what is happening day to day. Small observations about changes in mobility, behavior, routines, medications, nutrition, sleep, or overall wellbeing can provide important context. But when that information is scattered across conversations, text messages, notebooks, appointments, and different members of the care team, valuable details can easily be lost. The conversation explores how closing those information gaps and creating a more connected picture of care can help families and professionals identify patterns, communicate more effectively, and create a more sustainable system of support. For families navigating caregiving, the future of care will not simply be about who can provide the most services. It will increasingly be about how effectively everyone involved can organize, communicate, collaborate, and understand the complete picture of a person's care. About Crystal Gallo: Crystal Gallo is the Founder and CEO of Innerhive. After almost two decades of building teams and growing high-impact technology companies, Crystal discovered a deeper purpose through an unexpected experience with family caregiving. That experience helped shape her perspective on the challenges families face when trying to organize information, coordinate care, communicate with professionals, and make sense of the countless small moments that make up someone's caregiving journey. Crystal founded Innerhive with the vision of transforming how people care for one another and helping family caregivers and their broader support networks find greater clarity, connection, and wellness throughout the caregiving journey. About Innerhive: Innerhive is a voice-first care companion designed to turn scattered family caregiving observations and information into actionable care intelligence. Care is often made up of thousands of small moments. Innerhive allows caregivers to capture what they see and experience so information has a central place to live, helping families recognize patterns, maintain important context, and stay connected with the people involved in a loved one's care. By helping create a family record of care that can complement the information maintained by professional caregivers and healthcare providers, Innerhive is working toward a more connected and sustainable model of care in which everyone supporting an individual can better understand the whole picture. Innerhive is also inviting family caregivers and care professionals to help shape the conversation around what better care coordination should look like.

    A Conversation with Crystal Gallo Founder of Innerhive

  3. 6d ago

    Dr. Hussen Amen, MD Board Certified Family Medicine Physician

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome Dr. Hussen Amen, board-certified family medicine physician and founder of Amen Family Medicine, as a guest to the show. In this important conversation, Dr. Amen joins Lance to discuss the role proactive primary care can play in helping older adults maintain their health, independence, and quality of life while safely aging in place. The discussion explores the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit and why it is different from a traditional physical, as well as some of the important health concerns primary care physicians look for as patients age. Dr. Amen shares valuable insight into fall prevention, changes in mobility, memory and cognitive concerns, medication management and polypharmacy, preventive screenings, nutrition, advance care planning, and the importance of identifying subtle health changes before they develop into a medical crisis. Lance and Dr. Amen also discuss the important role family caregivers can play as part of a loved one's healthcare team and why establishing a strong relationship with a trusted primary care physician before a crisis occurs can make a meaningful difference. For older adults and their families, proactive healthcare is about more than treating illness. It is about prevention, early detection, communication, and helping individuals remain as healthy and independent as possible. About Dr. Hussen Amen: Dr. Hussen Amen is a board-certified family medicine physician and the founder of Amen Family Medicine, an independent primary care practice in Livonia, Michigan. A Metro Detroit native who grew up in Dearborn, Dr. Amen earned his bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Wayne State University before receiving his medical degree from St. George's University School of Medicine. He completed his Family Medicine residency at Trinity Health Livonia, where he continues to maintain hospital privileges. Living with Type 1 diabetes since childhood has given Dr. Amen a unique perspective on the patient experience and the importance of preventive, relationship-centered care. His clinical interests include preventive medicine, chronic disease management, sports medicine, and point-of-care ultrasound. He is passionate about helping patients stay healthy, maintain their independence, and avoid preventable hospitalizations through proactive primary care and patient education. About Amen Family Medicine: Amen Family Medicine is an independent primary care practice located in Livonia, Michigan, founded by Dr. Hussen Amen with the mission of providing personalized, relationship-centered healthcare for patients of all ages. As a privately owned practice, Amen Family Medicine focuses on building lasting relationships with patients while delivering accessible, evidence-based care tailored to each individual's needs. The practice offers comprehensive family medicine services including preventive care, annual wellness visits, chronic disease management, same-day sick visits, women's health, pediatric care, sports medicine, and minor office procedures. Amen Family Medicine also provides in-office digital X-ray, point-of-care ultrasound, laboratory services, EKGs, and ultrasound-guided procedures, allowing many conditions to be evaluated and treated conveniently under one roof. For older adults, the practice emphasizes preventive care, medication management, fall prevention, cognitive screening, and coordination with caregivers and specialists to help patients maintain their health, independence, and quality of life. At Amen Family Medicine, the philosophy is that primary care should be proactive rather than reactive.

    Dr. Hussen Amen, MD Board Certified Family Medicine Physician

  4. Sep 28

    Marianne Sciucco & New AlzAuthors Book "Sharing Our Stories Only Makes Us Stronger"

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome Marianne Sciucco, author, retired registered nurse, and co-founder of AlzAuthors, as a guest to the show. About Marianne Sciucco: A lifelong lover of words and books, Marianne Sciucco writes heartwarming novels, short stories, and essays that explore the human experiences surrounding caregiving, Alzheimer's disease, dementia, family, and connection. A retired registered nurse, Marianne brings both professional healthcare experience and a deep understanding of the emotional realities families face when navigating dementia and caregiving. Marianne is also a founder of AlzAuthors, the global community of authors writing about Alzheimer's disease and dementia from personal experience to light the way for others. Through AlzAuthors, she has helped amplify the voices of authors, caregivers, professionals, and individuals whose stories provide education, understanding, hope, and support to families around the world. In this conversation, Lance and Marianne discuss her newest book and the inspiration behind its creation, including the powerful individual stories and six-word memoirs that capture moments of love, loss, resilience, caregiving, and the realities of living alongside Alzheimer's and dementia. They explore how the memoirs were gathered, the meaning behind the book's artwork and design, and why even a few carefully chosen words can communicate experiences that are often difficult to describe. Marianne also shares several of the six-word memoirs featured in the book and discusses why creating opportunities for caregivers to tell their stories matters. These personal experiences can help caregivers feel seen, preserve meaningful memories, create connection, and remind others traveling similar journeys that they are part of a much larger community. The conversation also highlights the importance of storytelling in dementia care and caregiving—not only as a way to document difficult experiences, but as a way to recognize the love, humanity, humor, strength, and unforgettable moments that remain throughout the caregiving journey. FREE BOOK: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/r095u76rvq

    Marianne Sciucco & New AlzAuthors Book "Sharing Our Stories Only Makes Us Stronger"

  5. Sep 24

    Lori La Bey "How to Better Support Loved Ones with Dementia"

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome Lori La Bey, Founder of Alzheimer's Speaks and internationally recognized dementia advocate, as a guest to the show. About Lori La Bey: Lori La Bey is an award-winning dementia advocate, speaker, author, media host, and founder of Alzheimer's Speaks. Her work was inspired by her mother's 30-year journey with dementia and has focused on changing how society understands, discusses, and responds to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Through Alzheimer's Speaks, Lori has created and supported educational programs, advocacy initiatives, interviews, resources, and conversations that bring together people living with dementia, family caregivers, professionals, innovators, and organizations. Lori is also the co-founder of Dementia Map and serves on the Board of AlzAuthors, where she continues helping families connect with trusted dementia and caregiving resources. In this conversation, Lance and Lori discuss the realities of dementia and caregiving, the importance of listening to people living with dementia, the lessons family caregivers often learn through experience, and why compassion, dignity, connection, and person-centered care must remain at the heart of the caregiving journey. They also explore the need for stronger caregiver resources, better dementia education, greater collaboration across the care community, and a shift away from fear-based perceptions of dementia. About Alzheimer's Speaks: Alzheimer's Speaks is a dementia advocacy, education, and media platform founded by Lori La Bey. Its mission is to help shift dementia care from crisis to comfort by providing education, resources, conversations, and support for families, caregivers, professionals, and people living with dementia. Through Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, Dementia Chats™, Dementia Quick Tips™, educational initiatives, and global collaborations, Alzheimer's Speaks works to elevate the voices and lived experiences of those impacted by dementia.

    Lori La Bey "How to Better Support Loved Ones with Dementia"

  6. Sep 22

    Anoushka Fernandes Creator of "TheSoggySandwich.ca"

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome dementia awareness advocate Anoushka Fernandes as a guest to the show. About Anoushka Fernandes: Anoushka Fernandes (Ah-NOSH-ka) is a passionate dementia awareness advocate from Edmonton, Canada, whose personal caregiving journey inspired her to help other families navigating dementia, caregiving, and loss. In 2023, Anoushka made the decision to leave the full-time corporate workforce and start her own business, allowing her more time to support her father as he cared for her mother, Allison. For the final three years of her life, Allison lived with cognitive decline and major neurocognitive disorder, a type of dementia. Anoushka experienced firsthand the changes, uncertainty, and challenges that can affect not only the person living with dementia, but the entire family surrounding them. Following Allison's death, Anoushka transformed her family's experience into a mission to support others. In October 2025, she launched TheSoggySandwich.ca, a website and blog created for dementia caregivers and those who have experienced dementia-related loss. Through her advocacy, community outreach, writing, and public speaking, Anoushka is especially passionate about helping break down the stigma surrounding dementia, including within racialized communities. She encourages families who notice changes in memory, behavior, or cognition to seek formal medical evaluation rather than allowing fear or stigma to delay conversations about dementia. Her advocacy also emphasizes the importance of accessing available treatments, interventions, education, and support as early as possible to help improve quality of life for individuals living with dementia and those who care for them. About The Soggy Sandwich: The Soggy Sandwich is a deeply personal dementia caregiving and grief resource created by Anoushka Fernandes following her family's caregiving journey and the death of her mother, Allison. Through weekly writing, Anoushka follows two interconnected storylines. The first reflects on her family's caregiving journey, beginning with the earliest memory and behavioral changes they noticed in Allison and continuing through the realities of caring for someone living with dementia. The second chronicles Anoushka's own experience navigating grief following her mother's sudden and unexpected death. By sharing these experiences openly, Anoushka hopes to provide caregivers and grieving families with something that can sometimes be difficult to find during these journeys: the knowledge that someone else understands. The Soggy Sandwich also serves as a platform for dementia awareness, caregiver education, community outreach, and conversations aimed at reducing stigma and encouraging families to seek information, support, and medical guidance earlier in the dementia journey.

    Anoushka Fernandes Creator of "TheSoggySandwich.ca"

  7. Sep 21

    Suzy McNamara Author of "The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree"

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome author Suzy McNamara as a guest to the show. About Suzy McNamara: Suzy McNamara is the author of The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree, a deeply human exploration of caregiving, grief, faith, loss, and enduring love. A poet, mother of four, fundraiser, lawyer, Secular Carmelite, and widow, Suzy writes for those navigating loss and the often-invisible weight of caring for someone they love. In 2024, Suzy lost her husband of 37 years, Bob McNamara, to Posterior Cortical Atrophy, an aggressive form of early-onset Alzheimer's, after caring for him at home for five years. Just months earlier, her sister and lifelong best friend, Elizabeth Muslin, died from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. These overlapping losses profoundly shaped Suzy's perspective and inform her writing today. Her work offers particular insight into the realities of early-onset Alzheimer's, when illness can begin dismantling identity during years when marriages, careers, friendships, and family life are often at their most active. Suzy writes honestly about the daily realities of caregiving — the isolation, exhaustion, anticipatory grief, and the quiet work of preserving dignity, countering shame, and holding onto meaning amid uncertainty. She believes grief can be a lonely sport and that survival often depends on community, shared language, faith, and the courage to name what is too often left unsaid. Through her writing, Suzy seeks to walk alongside caregivers and those grieving profound loss, reminding them they do not have to carry everything alone. About The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree: The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree is a deeply personal memoir about love, caregiving, grief, faith, and what remains after unimaginable loss. Within a single year, Suzy lost both her husband of 37 years to early-onset Alzheimer's and her sister — her lifelong best friend and emotional support system — to lung disease. With raw honesty and vulnerability, Suzy chronicles the daily realities of caregiving, the isolation and anticipatory grief, and the exhaustion of watching someone you love gradually disappear while they are still physically present. She also explores the particular ache of losing a sister and refuses to rush either loss toward easy answers, resolution, or meaning. Instead, the book gives voice to the weight carried by caregivers and the layered grief that can follow while offering something equally important: companionship. Through love, community, and faith, Suzy offers hope that joy and peace can eventually exist alongside grief. The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree is for anyone who has cared for someone they love, grieved someone they could not save, or simply needed to know they are not alone in what they are carrying.

    Suzy McNamara Author of "The Silkworm, the Magician, and the Sister Tree"

  8. Sep 17

    John Regan Founder of Tugboat Caregiving

    All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton, were honored to welcome John Regan, Founder of Tugboat Caregiving, as a guest to the show. About John Regan, Founder of Tugboat Caregiving: John Regan is the founder of Tugboat Caregiving and a family caregiver whose work is rooted directly in lived experience. For more than eight years, John has been a family caregiver for three people he loves — beginning with his mother in 2018, followed by his aunts, one of whom is living with dementia, and his father — all while working full-time as a technologist with more than 30 years of experience. Through those experiences, John came to understand just how quickly family caregivers can find themselves becoming case managers, advocates, researchers, insurance navigators, technology support, and decision-makers — often without training, preparation, or a roadmap. He created Tugboat Caregiving to become the navigator he wishes he had during his own caregiving journey: an AI-powered "crew" designed to help family caregivers better understand what may be coming next, determine what needs attention first, and reduce the burden of trying to keep every detail inside their heads. John is also an outspoken realist about caregiving technology and artificial intelligence. He believes the technology families need most is not always the flashiest or most expensive. His approach emphasizes practical solutions, affordability, transparency, and being honest about where AI can genuinely support caregivers — and where technology and marketing may be getting ahead of reality. Tugboat Caregiving was built entirely from his lived experience as a family caregiver. About Tugboat Caregiving: Tugboat Caregiving is an AI-powered caregiving navigator created to help families caring for aging or ailing loved ones understand what to do now, what may be coming next, and how to prepare for it. With an estimated 59 million Americans providing care for someone they love — and the global population age 60 and older projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050 — families are increasingly being asked to navigate complicated caregiving responsibilities with little training and no clear roadmap. Tugboat Caregiving was created to help provide that map. At the center of the platform is a private "Care Graph," a simple, living picture of a loved one's situation that AI can use to help anticipate potential needs over the next 90 days. Tugboat also offers a growing collection of free and membership-based caregiving tools, including: • A Caregiver Navigator designed to turn an overwhelming situation into three prioritized next steps. • A Caregiver Check-In focused on the health and well-being of the caregiver. • A budget-aware Tech Plan that helps families identify technology that may actually be useful — as well as technology they may not need. • An Appeal Drafter that helps create a ready-to-sign Medicare appeal letter. • Stage-by-stage caregiving guides. • A global caregiving atlas. • Sourced caregiving cost and statistics resources. What sets Tugboat apart is its philosophy toward technology. Rather than promoting technology simply because it is new, Tugboat focuses on practical, affordable solutions that can make a meaningful difference in everyday caregiving. The platform is candid about where artificial intelligence can provide real value for caregivers today and where expectations surrounding technology may exceed what it can realistically deliver. Tugboat Caregiving was founded by John Regan and built from his own eight-plus years as a family caregiver. The company is live, bootstrapped, and AI-native — run by one caregiver working alongside a crew of AI agents and shaped by lived caregiving experience. Its guiding idea is simple: "You're the captain. We're the tugboat."   Connect with Tugboat Caregiving: Website: https://tugboatcaregiving.com X: @Tugboatcare LinkedIn: Tugboat Caregiving YouTube: @TugboatCaregiving

    John Regan Founder of Tugboat Caregiving
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All Home Care Matters is an informative podcast and YouTube show that helps viewers and listeners learn about resources, tips, & discussion on all things home care.

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    Enriched Life Home Care Services
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
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