Latest Agingathome Podcast Episodes
Benefits of Hospice Care
Help Choose Home - October 18, 2018 18:31 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Help Choose Home podcast series provides information on home care options. This episode features Theresa Schmidt, speaking about benefits of hospice care. The series is hosted by Merrily Orsini, president and CEO of corecubed, who leads a team of industry experts providing elder care marketi...
Caregivers Unite
Help Choose Home - September 12, 2018 16:11 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the editor-in-chief of Today’s Caregiver magazine, Gary Barg utilizes his magazine, Caregiving.com, and the Fearless Caregiver conferences, as platforms to provide support and guidance through the shared experience of caregiving. Barg likens the family caregiver to a CEO. In applying a busine...
Selecting Quality In-Home Care
Help Choose Home - September 06, 2018 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode of Help Choose Home, Merrily Orsini talks with Katie Roper, CEO of Catenary Consulting and home care industry expert. Roper discusses the specifics to look for when selecting in home care for your senior loved one and the importance of being informed.
Low-Cost, High-Value Home Care
Help Choose Home - June 14, 2018 13:37 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAllen Hager, Executive Chairman of Risemark, founded one of the largest franchise platforms in the industry, which you may know as Right at Home. Risemark consists of three wholly owned subsidiaries including Right at Home, Right at Home International, and IKOR that serve more than 500 territori...
Access to Home Care
Help Choose Home - June 14, 2018 00:47 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJoanne Cunningham, President/CEO, Home Care Association of New York State for 11 years now, is leading her state's home health agencies to advance home and community-based services and promote high-quality care in the home. She also always looks for ways to expand opportunities for the home care...
Home Care and Population Health
Help Choose Home - June 11, 2018 17:11 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMatt Hansen, who has a doctorate in physical therapy and serves as General Manager for Homespire, a new Intermountain Healthcare Company based in Utah, is our guest today. Matt’s passion is in population health in addition to his provision of skilled Lifecare Management and Personal Skill servic...
Long-Term Care Insurance
Help Choose Home - June 11, 2018 16:46 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMaryglenn Boals has spent her entire career focused on healthcare, insurance and the challenges faced by the aging and disabled. LTCi is her career path and her passion. She is a former licensed nursing home administrator, recognized locally and nationally for her work in the field of Aging. She...
Quality In Home Health Care
Help Choose Home - May 06, 2018 13:34 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLaura Page-Greifinger, BSN, MPA CEO of QIRT- Quality in Real Time. Laura has worked in home care and hospice for over 30 years as a nurse, supervisor, and clinical consultant. Her passion for home health care began in a rotation while in nursing school and that passion has continued to influence...
Geriatric Consult and Planning
Help Choose Home - May 04, 2018 11:57 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDr. Steven Landers a certified family doctor and geriatrician who is currently President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc., the nation’s second-largest not-for-profit home health care organization servicing New Jersey and Ohio. Dr. Landers is a graduate of the...
Senior Home Care Technology
Help Choose Home - May 03, 2018 13:22 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLaurie M. Orlov, a tech industry veteran, writer, speaker and elder care advocate, is the founder of Aging in Place Technology Watch which provides market research that provides thought leadership, analysis, and guidance about technologies and services that enable boomers and seniors to remain l...
Part 2 of 2: Accountability in Home Health Care
Help Choose Home - May 02, 2018 20:21 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis is the second part of a 2-part series with Arnie Cisneros, President of Home Health Strategic Management. Our discussion covers many areas that affect quality in home health care. Arnie's primary focus now is on quality, and he was instrumental in spearheading one of the nation’s first Acco...
Part 1 of 2: Accountability in Home Health Care
Help Choose Home - May 02, 2018 20:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsArnie Cisneros, President of Home Health Strategic Management, is our guest today on Help Choose Home. Arnie has been involved in home care, as a Physical Therapist and consultant for over 30 years. His primary focus now is on quality, and he was instrumental in spearheading one of the nation’s...
Benefits of Home Care
Help Choose Home - May 01, 2018 16:12 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPeter Sosnow, Integration Leader at Humana at Home. Peter was literally born into a home care family as his father, Larry Sosnow started Patient Care in New York and New Jersey several decades ago. He has been on the care managed side of home care with Senior Bridge and now is at Humana at Home ...
Making Home Care Choices
Help Choose Home - April 16, 2018 22:33 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJeannee Parker Martin, President and CEO of Leading Age California, and a long time industry leader as an equity partner is The Corridor Group for over 25 years. Martin has a masters in public health from Yale University and is considered one of the thought leaders in the healthcare at home ind...
Accreditation in Home Care
Help Choose Home - April 13, 2018 17:40 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsJoin Matt Hughes, Vice President of Business Development for the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) as he discusses the role that accreditation plays in the industry and how that affects consumers who are looking to choose home care. ACHC is a nonprofit accreditation organization th...
Geriatric Care Management
Help Choose Home - April 13, 2018 17:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCathy Cress. MSW, talks about how using a geriatric care manager can make care easier as an aging life care professional can assist with difficult care decisions. Should mom and dad remain at home? Move elsewhere? What kinds of options are available? A teacher, a communicator and a caring family...
Regulations in Home Care
Help Choose Home - April 04, 2018 22:50 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDavid Totaro, as Chief Governmental Affairs Officer for Bayada Home Health Care, also serves as Chair of the Partnership for Medicaid Home Based Care. He is active all across the United States in advocating at the state and local level to gain awareness and support for healthcare at home.
The Value of Home Care
Help Choose Home - April 04, 2018 22:46 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDr. Warren Hebert is a long time nurse in home care, who now runs an association for healthcare at home in Louisiana and also teaches at Loyola University. His insights into providing care in the home setting are invaluable.
Home Care for Consumers
Help Choose Home - April 04, 2018 22:38 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHelping choose home when a care need arises depends on the care that is possible to receive in the home. Jennifer Gibson is a seasoned home care nurse who loves her job and helps explain about home care to a consumer audience.
Home Care Advocacy
Help Choose Home - April 03, 2018 13:58 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDeborah Hoyt, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home, has been actively advocating for home care for years. Because home care is the lowest cost, and usually highest quality option for care, the system of reimbursement needs to switch from bricks and mortar t...
Considering In-Home Care
Help Choose Home - March 29, 2018 22:39 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe elder care industry continues to grow and change to meet the needs of our older population, many of whom wish to age or recover following a hospitalization in familiar surroundings. In-home care for aging adults is a readily available, convenient, and affordable option. And thanks to technol...
When is Home Care Appropriate?
Help Choose Home - March 28, 2018 22:34 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the first episode of the Help Choose Home podcast, Shiela McMackin explains that years ago, when senior loved ones needed care, there were few choices and quality home care was oftentimes not one of them. Nursing homes or family members typically pieced together a plan based on necessity. At ...
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