Today, we will be talking to Dr. Pauline Peck. She is a licensed Psychologist in California and New York. She has a Master’s Degree in Race & Ethnic Relations/Sociology, a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Doctorate Degree in Counseling Psychology. She has a group practice located in Santa Barbara, California that provides in-person and telehealth services.
We’re with AK, that’s Alexander Koreiba, our race car driver for the Parent Projects brand. He is the young gun of AL AutoSports and our hero at Parent Projects. He wears the Love Check™ on his helmet and is out to win the IMSA Prototype Challenge this year. He is well on his way to win everything he possibly can in motor sports across the board. On this episode of the Parent Projects Podcast with Tony Siebers.
Today, we have neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Stern with us, sharing his lessons on losing capabilities and capacity while choosing to maintain vitality and purpose in life. Dr. Joseph Stern has decades of experience as a neurosurgeon, and wrote the book “Grief Connects Us”. Join us as we talk about grief and break down ways to tackle and understand grief.
Overture Home Care knows what it feels like to be worried about a loved one and to want your family to be safe and secure while giving them as much independence as possible. We are joined today by Denise Helms and Paige Wolk.
Denise Helms, RN, BSN, CDP, has over twenty five years of experience as a Registered Nurse. Mrs. Helms began caring for the elderly as a volunteer candy striper at a nursing home while still in middle school. When she reached high school, she became a nursing assistant and worked as such through college. The next logical step was to pursue a degree in nursing.
Paige Wolk, LBSW, CDP, has over twenty years of experience in the Senior Care Industry. She began her career as a Social Worker in a skilled nursing facility working with elderly, and found her passion. Mrs. Wolk has been active in the Social Work community, earning such distinctions as Social Worker of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers and Social Worker of the Year by the Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare, Texas Chapter.
Today, we have neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Stern with us, sharing his lessons on losing capabilities and capacity while still choosing to maintain vitality and purpose in life.
Today, our Guest is Noelle Ghram, an Occupational Therapist with 23 years of experience working with trauma patients in hospitals, homes, rehabs, and skilled nursing facilities. She is currently working at a Level 1 Acute Care Trauma Center and has a passion for educating people and families about fall prevention.
Today, our Guest is Dr. Avigail Lev, a licensed clinical psychologist based in San Francisco, California. Her areas of specialty include ACT & Schema Therapy, Couples Therapy, and Personality Disorders, and has already co-authored 3 books on those subjects. Her goal as a therapist is to provide her patients with the tools to choose the actions and behaviors that express their deepest values. “In the face of distress or other challenges, living from your values will enable you to lead a meaningful life and to be the person you want to be.
The right Home Care provides freedom to live out the final years well, but the wrong care can be traumatic and financially devastating. Understand what to look for and what to avoid. Today, we are with Julio Briones of the Briones Consulting Group. Julio is a business consultant specializing in senior care business growth with a focus on strategic implementation. He works with senior care facilities as well as Home Care/Home Health and Hospice agencies to create custom strategies to enhance their offering, streamline their recruitment, retention, operations, and client service processes.
Today, we will be chatting with Adria Thompson, certified dementia practitioner, who creates practical and functional content for caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s. She believes if we can better understand the reality in which individuals with dementia are living, we will better meet their needs with compassion and understanding.
Nicole DePace is with us today to discuss common challenges around decision-making for our loved ones with Alzheimer's. She will be sharing with us progression of stages and how to best prepare as our loved ones progress towards end of life. ...
Today, we are talking with Katie Skavrce, Communications Director at the Alzheimer’s Association. There is hope for the future, and Katie is going to share with us some very easy, practical lifestyle interventions that clinical trials are proving to be working in helping slow the progress on cognitive decline, as well as some great advancement in medications.
Today, we are kicking off Alzheimer’s Awareness month by talking with Jim and Geri Taylor, founders of Voices for Alzheimer’s. Come and listen to their story and experiences to help you better prepare and understand the effect Alzheimer’s has on the person and their families. Learn to love and laugh with us.
Today, we are breaking down different types of fraud attacks and ways to be on guard against them, as well as tools to help you work through it if you have become a victim.
Is your family weighing Home Care vs. Nursing Home decisions and looking for some fresh perspectives on the conversation?
This week, we will be thinking outside the box with a nod to cultural influences on family dynamics in aging families. We visit with RN and CEO of New York’s Galaxy Home Care, Yelena Sokolsky, whose personal and professional experience spanning 20yrs. in home care has found value in the many ways culture impacts how to tackle these conversations.
Michael Doring Connelly, a 40-plus-year healthcare veteran and former CEO of Mercy Health, details how senior citizens (and people with terminal diagnoses) can have more control and dignity in the final phases of their lives in his new book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation into Death and Dying in Modern America.
Amy Ford is the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development for Silvernest. In her role, Amy is focused on generating a vision and roadmap for Silvernest’s growth with current and future partners.
Matt Paxton is one of the top downsizing and decluttering experts in the country. He is the host of the 2-time Emmy nominated series Legacy List with Matt Paxton on PBS and was a featured cleaner on the hit television show HOARDERS for 15 seasons. Matt is also the author of the best-selling book, Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff. Paxton started cleaning out houses after his father, step-father and both grandfathers died in the same year and is the reason Matt has been working with families struggling with hoarding and downsizing for 20 years. Matt appears regularly as a public speaker, television guest, and radio personality helping families and companies find the upside of downsizing.
Kimberly Akers is a Certified Senior Advisor® and owner of Amada Senior Care. Amada Senior Care is Arizona’s trusted provider for In-Home Care and Long-Term Care Insurance Advocacy. Amada Senior Care assists seniors in staying independent in their homes by providing compassionate caregivers to assist with activities of daily living, medication reminders, meal preparation, and light housekeeping.
Jim started Masters of Coin to bring together the many volunteers who have helped make the SCC VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program such a success and expand the reach to help people become better citizens through financial education. Jim’s occupational experience is wide and varied, including entrepreneurial experience as the owner of a fence contracting business, corporate experience at BF Goodrich Aerospace as an international sales representative, and professional experience as a CPA at McGladrey & Pullen, CPAs. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, and a Masters in Tax, all from Arizona State University. He earned a PhD in Education from Walden University.
Steve Alfonsi is the franchise owner of ComForCare Home Care, along with the Founder and CEO of Vital Palliative and Royal Hospice. Steve grew up in a family where his father owned skilled nursing and rehab facilities in multiple States which gave him exposure to the Senior Care industry at an early age. In addition, Steve learned firsthand about caregiving by helping his mother who lost her battle to pancreatic cancer.
Steve also has an abundance of business leadership experience working prior as a corporate executive that he utilizes and has enabled him to build a work culture and environment that provides quality service. He holds a master’s degree in economics and is an active member in many organizations, such as Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), and is also a Board Member of Arizona In-Home care Association (AZNHA).
David MacMahan is the founder and president of FairSplit.com, a long-time entrepreneur, and someone who challenges the status quo. Over the past eleven years of working with families dividing estates, he is now widely recognized as the leading industry expert on estate division of personal property. He has personally helped navigate the family dynamics in hundreds of those divisions and has helped all involved understand the places heirs are coming from in unique family situations. He is often hired to serve as Administrator of the FairSplit process but also as an independent third-party mediator to help keep tensions down between family members and reduce the pressure on executors of the estate by providing that independent, third-party role who isn’t emotionally involved.
Here’s the third and final episode of the Emotional Legal Decisions series with Otto Shill III, Partner with Jennings, Strouss & Salmon. Mr. Shill has practiced for nearly 40 years and is a Certified Tax Specialist. He focuses his practice on tax, business and estate planning, government audits and investigations, employee benefits and employment regulation, and government contracting.
There are a lot of factors to consider in take over the mortgage. It’s not just a simple as can I afford it. Today, we will talk through what some of these other factors are with Danielle Muira. Why are we keeping the house… taxes, maintenance, and lifestyle.
Danielle is the Founder of Spark Financials. Spark Financials is a fee-only, financial advisory firm located in Ripon, CA, serving people virtually across the United States. Danielle Miura founded Spark Financials to provide financial advice to family caregivers to help them organize, simplify, and empower them through every life turn.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Shill has helped businesses, business owners, and individuals comply with tax and other government regulations, navigate government investigations, and build wealth through business transactions and long-term business and estate planning. He has significant experience in business transactions, federal and state tax compliance and tax controversies; compensation and employee benefits, employment regulation; and government contracting compliance and disputes.
Jennings Strouss leverages our unparalleled legal knowledge and business experience to provide individuals and businesses with expert counsel on estate planning, estate administration, and probate matters. We pride ourselves on being astute problem solvers and are only satisfied when our clients are happy. Our attorneys handle all aspects of estate planning and probate, including the implementation of sophisticated estate plans for clients, such as the drafting of traditional and complex wills, various types of revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, and family partnership agreements. They also assist in the preparation of trust documents, including living trusts, marital deduction and generation-skipping transfer tax trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, trusts designed for facilitating gifts to minors, and specialty trusts.
Today’s discussion is with Registered Nurse and pioneer Healthcare Advocate, Teri Dreher. Together we plan to breakdown how we can communicate with our parents, express concern, and ultimately motivate them to improve their lifestyles as they age without causing more problems, drama, or resistance.
Teri, an RN with 36 years of experience, has always been passionate about keeping the patient at the center of the nursing care model. This passion led her to form North Shore Patient Advocates, LLC in 2011. NSPA is one of the first organizations of its kind in Chicagoland.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Shill has helped businesses, business owners, and individuals comply with tax and other government regulations, navigate government investigations, and build wealth through business transactions and long-term business and estate planning. He has significant experience in business transactions, federal and state tax compliance and tax controversies; compensation and employee benefits, employment regulation; and government contracting compliance and disputes.
Jennings Strouss leverages our unparalleled legal knowledge and business experience to provide individuals and businesses with expert counsel on estate planning, estate administration, and probate matters. We pride ourselves on being astute problem solvers and are only satisfied when our clients are happy. Our attorneys handle all aspects of estate planning and probate, including the implementation of sophisticated estate plans for clients, such as the drafting of traditional and complex wills, various types of revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, and family partnership agreements. They also assist in the preparation of trust documents, including living trusts, marital deduction and generation-skipping transfer tax trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, trusts designed for facilitating gifts to minors, and specialty trusts.
Today our Guest is Traci Beagley. Traci Beagley is the Founder & CEO of Sunland Home Care and Medical. She is a 4th generation native to Mesa, Arizona. Her great-grandfather and grandfather, Joe and Ross Farnsworth, built the first 55+ active adult community in the East Valley in Arizona in 1958. Since then, her father, Craig Ahlstrom, Sr., has continued building several active adult communities in Mesa. Many of Traci’s memories growing up involve serving and working with seniors. She continues to follow in her family’s compassionate legacy.
Today’s Guest is Katie Brenneman, Katie Brenneman is the founder and president of Stronghold Financial. Stronghold Financial s a full-service wealth management and Medicaid planning firm driven by one focused goal – to help clients grow, protect and transfer all they have worked so hard to achieve. They continually establish themselves as a leader in the financial services community. They do this by providing the utmost in quality of financial services and products which cater to each client’s needs and interests.
Today’s Guest is Jan Dougherty Jan Dougherty, MS, RN, FAAN is a nurse leader, innovator, and noted dementia care expert. As a change agent, Jan has been advancing care for people living with Alzheimer’s disease/related dementia and their family caregivers. Jan brings to her clients TravAlz innovation and expertise using dementia-friendly travel solutions. The results for the travel industry and family caregivers ensure successful, safe, and memorable travels.
Today’s guest is William Seippel, the CEO of Worth Point. WorthPoint Corporation is the largest resource for researching, valuing, and buying/selling antiques, art, and vintage collectibles. Our suite of offerings on WorthPoint.com includes a price guide for researching and valuing antiques, art, and collectibles; a resource gallery for identifying makers’ marks; and, a digital library of books from leading publishers on a wide range of collecting topics.
Michelle Riddle founded Complete Dignity in February 2015 with the purpose to assist, educate and navigate patients through the complicated and often intimidating world of healthcare. Michelle is a private, Board Certified Patient Advocate who serves families nationwide. She received her certificate in Patient Advocacy through the Cleveland State University School of Nursing. Michelle is also a member of The Alliance of Professional Health Advocates and a member of the National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants.
She has been featured in Arizona Attorney Magazine-Expert Guide 2020 in the Medical-Legal Consulting, Patient Advocate, and Insurance Claims Analysis categories. She is the Founder and President of Arizona Associates of Patient Advocacy.
Do you know where your parents are going to go? Hospice, senior living communities can be tough to traverse, but our guest Sandra Dyk is an expert in guiding individuals to find their Alamo. Sandy Dyk. Sandy has over 30 years experience advocating professionally for families and leading organizations focused on Senior Living. She’s also a Certified Dementia Practitioner & Champion. Sandy is Director of Operations and Development at All About You, a senior placement service local to Arizona. All About You has earned emerging business of the year from Queen Creek’s Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Suarez is board certified in Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care and Geriatrics. She recently completed a Healthcare MBA at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). She is the medical director of Traditions Health Hospice in Portland and Salem and is a palliative care consultant at OHSU Hillsboro. She is developing a home-based palliative care and chronic disease program that will launch by the first of the year. She has begun training as a Psilocybin Facilitator with the intention of helping terminally ill patients cope with existential pain and she is excited to see where this leads. Most important to Dr. Suarez is her art, travel experiences, her “boys”, Cooper, a mischievous little Yorkie, and Jack, her lounging-loving mixed Corgi, but mostly, her family, especially her grandson, Riker, the love of her life.
Do you know the brands Boost, Depends, Poise? Would you like to know more about these brands to help aid your aging loved ones? Today we are joined my Bianca Padilla, CEO of Carewell. Learn from her experiences in aiding her Grandmother and how it called to her to start one of the fastest growing Companies here in the US.
Today we are kicking off season 2 of our parent projects podcast and our guest is our senior moves manager, Lori English. Lori has been helping seniors with their moves for over 10 years. Her experience as a Senior Move Manager is invaluable and her perspectives, golden!
Our guest today, Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk has over twenty years of experience providing medical care to the elderly will be talking to us today about ways we can help our aging loved ones have a better quality of life. Dr Landsverk is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care Medicine. Dr Landsverk founded ElderConsult Geriatric Medicine, a house calls practice, to address the challenging medical and behavioral issues often facing older patients and their families. Dr Landsverk was an assistant professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, an adjunct professor of Medicine at Stanford University, as well as consultant to the San Francisco Elder Abuse Forensics Center and Hospice Medical Director.
Dealing with Debt. Howard Dvorkin is Chairman of debt.com, and founder of one of the most highly regarded credit counseling companies; he’s a noted debt and credit expert in the United States and has played an instrumental role in drafting both State and Federal Legislation. He is a former consultant to the Board of Directors for the Association of Credit Counseling Professionals (ACCPros) and is the past president of the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies (AICCCA). Are your parents spending too much? It may be time to sit down with them but not at the dinner table, we discuss this and more to help you on your path of a Parent Project, on this episode of the Parent Projects Podcast. I’m Tony Siebers.
Mark Victor Hansen is best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 million books sold. But lately he and wife Crystal dropped ASK! The Bridge from Your Dreams to Your Destiny on the world which may be a game changer for those of you who find your destiny is tangled in a Parent Project, on this episode of the Parent Projects Podcast.
Join Col(R) Frank Milstead, former Director of Public Safety for the State of Arizona and career law enforcement officer as we talk about his Parent Project and how communication styles impact our projects.
Today I’m joined by Lin Sue Flood, Director of Community Engagement with Hospice of the Valley, and longtime newscaster for Channel 12News in Phoenix. We’re kicking off June’s National Alzheiner’s Awareness Month with a conversation about resources available to advocates and caretakers during the hospice stage of this disease and listening to how this critical service touched Lin Sue’s life.
Discussing walking into the final moments and hospice. Recommendation of words for comfort for the dying. First issues and task that follow after the passing of a loved one.
This week we will discuss how to prepare, research, discuss and develop long-term and emergency plans for managing your parents from a distance.
Special thanks to Parent Projects Business Operations Manager, Luis Marquez for sharing his experiences managing family issues in Oregon from Arizona.
Managing our own finances is complicated, but are you prepared to step in if your aging loved one is unable to manage theirs?
This podcast focuses on the issues that tend to push us into advocating for others working through the downsizing process; Distance, Disabilities, Debt, Divorce, Death and Decluttering.
