The Caregiver's Toolbox

Stephen Tweed, is a nationally known home care business strategist,award winning professional speaker, published author, and executive coach. He is the CEO of Leading Home Care ... a Tweed Jeffries company, and founder of the Home Care CEO Forum.https://www.leadinghomecare.com/

Ryan speaks with Aaron Marcum of Entrethrive and the Breakaway Accelerator Program.https://www.entrethrive.com/aboutentrethrivehttps://breakawayaccelerator.com/

Ryan speaks with Wendy Schulman from the Wolk Center for Memory Health, discussing Wendy's blog about what to expect when visiting a memory clinic.Read more here:https://www.hebrewseniorlife.org/blog/memory-clinics-what-expect-and-what-look

Ryan speaks with Bob Roth owner of Cypress Home Care in Arizona.  Aside from being a home care agency owner, Bob is a leader in the home care community and shares his thoughts on the future of home care and where it is heading.https://cypresshomecare.com/

Ryan talks with Adrienne Ross and Marty Donohue who help create, promote and attract sponsorships for the annual Hope on the Harbor Gala for the Alzheimer's Association of MA/NH.https://www.alz.org/manh/events/hope-on-the-harbor/leadership

Ryan talks with Uri Pearl the founder of Catch a cyber scam protection softwareAutomatically scans all incoming emailsScams instantly removed from your inboxBlacklist emails to prevent predatory marketinghttps://www.getcatch.ai/

Ryan speaks with Sue Haviland a fellow NAIPC member about her experiences in the reverse mortgage industry and being an author and speaker.https://reversemortgagemastery.com/www.stepsmart.org  https://www.linkedin.com/in/suehaviland/

Ryan speaks with Lee Berkowitz owner of Welcomes Back Home Care located in Palm County Florida.https://www.welcomebackhomecare.com/

Ryan speaks with Andrea Cohen, one of the earliest founders of home care companies in Massachusetts, about the industry where it is going and her newest company, Daughterhood.https://daughterhood.org/https://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with the owner of Trinity Home Care, Aaron Stapleton about the home care industry and his new podcast, Learning from Across the Table!https://www.trinityihc.co/https://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Casey Rausin, COO of Care Around the Block which is a care management and private home care company.https://www.carearoundtheblock.com/https://www.mwhomecare.com/https://www.wellawarecare.com/

Ryan speaks with Jake Krilovich, the executive director of the Massachusetts Home Care Alliance about how home care companies can improve, difficulties with  labor shortages, housing insecurity for workers and licensure .  https://www.thinkhomecare.org/https://mwhomecare.com/

Ryan speaks with Tara Ballman the executive director of the National Aging in Place Council, a non-profit helping educate local communities on how to successfully age-in-place.https://www.ageinplace.orghttps://www.mwhomecare.com 

Ryan speaks with Ron Gold and inspirational story of going from a Wall Street professional to owning a home care company, and the incredible yet difficult journey to get there.https://leanonwe.com/

Today, Ryan speaks with Janet Engel, the owner of Home Designs for Life and the host of the Home Designs for Life Podcasthttps://homedesignsforlife.com/https://www.mwhomecare.com/ https://www.wellawarecare.com/ 

Ryan speaks with Neil Tantingco, the CEO and Founder of Evergreen Senior Living and Connected Home Living

Ryan talks with the authors of "Aging In Place Conversations: What Industry Experts Have to Say", a book Ryan and other top experts who work with older adults contributed to, answering questions often encountered when developing an Aging-in-Place plan for your loved ones.Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Aging-Place-Conversations-Industry-Experts/dp/1590942604

Today Ryan talks with Dr. Jennifer Stelter, the author of "The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease"

Ryan talks with Erin Galyean, the author of Badass Advocate: Becoming The Champion Your Seriously Ill Loved One Deserves

Ryan speaks with representatives from Vayyar Technologies, who manufacture fall detection devices used with WellAware Care.

Today Ryan talks with Taylor Patskanick & Lexi Balmuth, associates at MIT AgeLab

Ryan talks with Rachel Corcoran, the owner of COTA.Travel 

Ryan speaks with Scott Maibor, the Managing Director of Senior Benefits Boston

Ryan talks with Aaron Roy, a Sales and Marketing Manager from SERVPRO

Today Ryan speaks with Gary Barg, the editor-in-chief of caregiver.com

Ryan speaks with Tom Greeley, a financial advisor from Northwestern Mutual.http://tomgreeley.nm.com/https://www.amazon.com/Books-S-Thomas-Greeley/https://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Norma about the Massachusetts Livable Home Modification Grant law she is trying to help pass in Massachusetts that all states should be aware of.https://www.oakleyhomeaccess.com/massachusetts-livable-home-modification-grant-needs-your-support/

Ryan speaks with Tom Matthews a realtor with Gibson Sotheby's about the options seniors have with real estate.https://www.tomandjoanneteam.com/ https://www.mwhomecare.com/ 

Ann Newberry is the owner of Smooth Transitions of Massachusetts, a senior more managing company.  She helps seniors downsize into smaller home or move into assisted living communities.https://massachusetts.smoothtransitions.comhttps://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Halee Burg of Elder Decisions.  She is a mediator for elder and adult family disputes.http://www.elderdecisions.com http:// www.mwhomecare.com

Sheryl has been an RN for almost 4 decades, with the majority of her career spent indirect patient care. She is the host of the podcast, engAGING Conversations, foundunder her name, Sheryl Smith RN (that's Sheryl with an S!) wherever you listen to yourpodcasts.Sheryl has always considered herself a strong patient advocate. Through her podcast,she is advocating for not only patients, but their families as well. By encouraging earlydialogue about end of life choices and providing resources for ALL kinds of things oneneeds to know about aging parents and end of life, her goal is quality. Whatever thatmeans to the individual.She obtained her BSN from The University of Delaware and her M.Ed from CambridgeCollege. She has been married to Mark for 33 years, and is the mother to two adultchildren, Kyle 30, Kara 28, and her Puerto Rican rescue dog, Bali who is 3 1/2.http://sherylsmithrn.com/ituneshttps://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Kara Harvey the who runs Elder-Well adult day services in Natick and is also the CEO and co-founder of the Elder-Well franchise system!https://elderwelladultday.com/franchising/https://www.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Margie McNally a universal design interior decorator who help seniors age-in-place by renovating their homes for older age.www.interiorelementsdesign.comwww.mwhomecare.com

Ryan talks with Renee Coleman from Cross Country Mortgages to discuss reverse mortgages and how the current housing market is affecting seniors who wish to down size.www,teamreneecoleman.comwww.mwhomecare.com

Ryan speaks with Rob and George Colantuoni from Well Aware Care, who are making fall detection technology software and devices.https://wellawarecare.com/www.mwhomecare.com

 Ryan speaks with Carol Marak a solo aging coach and consultant. Carol's Links: https://www.facebook.com/groups/elderorphans https://www.carolmarak.com Ryan's Links: www.mwhomecare.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmceniff/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-caregivers-toolbox/id1183027228 

Ryan speaks with Scott Fullerton of Home Ideations a home remodeling and design expert.https://www.homeideations.com/

Ryan speaks with Autumn Hotaling of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Association about upcoming events and how COVID has affected her company.24/7 Helpline: 800-272-3900Website: https://www.alz.org/manhVirtual programs link: https://www.alz.org/manh/helping_you/community_family_educationFamily Conference: https://www.alz.org/manh/events/family-conferenceWalk Website to register or donate: act.alz.org/NEM

Ryan sits down with Justin Oakley to talk about his home modification company for seniors, Oakley Home Access.

Ryan speaks with Tara Ballman, the president of Home Works Physical Therapy and the Board of Directors for the National Aging In Place Council.http://www.homeworkspt.com/

Ryan talks with Heather Hersee, an aging life manager, about a quiet problem we face as a society, orphaned seniors.

Ryan talks with Randy Veragaus from Boston Senior Medical.BostonSeniorMedicine.com

Ryan talks with Mike Harrington of Life Time Insurance Planning about long-term care insurance.mike@lifetimeip.com lifetimeip.com

Ryan talks with Jon "The Locator" Younger of Assisted Living Locators.

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ActiveMed ResearchLaura Rochalrocha@activmedresearch.com https://activmedresearch.com/

Ryan speaks with the owners of Well Aware Care, Bob and George Colantuoni.  Well Aware Care provides technology that can alert caregivers when a fall has occurred.https://wellawarecare.com/

Ryan talks with Denise Brown the CEO of Caregiving Years Training Academy, who provides training and certifications for family caregivers.https://www.careyearsacademy.com

Ryan talks about the many CNA heroes that are scared to go into work.  Also, he talks about social currency vs monetary currency and how important both are in the services industry.

Ryan talks about how Walmart is aggressively entering into health care and trying to compete with other companies like CVS and Amazon to disrupt the current health care system.

Ryan discusses the Baker Administration releasing the specific death tolls at Massachusetts nursing facilities, where 20% have 20+ COVID deaths.