Caregiving
Ending Well with Ivor Williams, Tracy Wheeler, Kimberly Whiter, Andrea Grech, Esther Cardenas Pipoly
This episode focused on Ending Well with the Executive Director of End Well, her advisor and other experts in this field. Ivor Williams discussed the rise of “death tech” and the challenges of advanced care planning. Kimberly Whiter introduced a guide for millennial caregivers. Tracy Wheeler highlighted End Well’s mission to change cultural conversations around…
This Project Updates episode included unique solutions for dementia care, hearing aid insertion support, physical and occupational therapy support and a grant offering. Recorded on July 7, 2022, this episode is part of our Project Updates series. Speakers are listed in their order of appearance. Grace Andruszkiewicz, Director of Marketing (through July 2024), Intuition Robotics-ElliQ…
Key points included the importance of user-friendly interfaces, such as voice control and video doorbells, to ease older adults into technology. Bob Fields highlighted Hibersense’s smart thermostat system, which can save up to 40% on heating and cooling costs by controlling individual room temperatures. Jerry Wilmink emphasized the need for accurate fall detection and health…
This Rethinking Aging Club Podcast Caregiver Friendly Products episode focused on Alzheimer’s and brain health, highlighting the importance of awareness and education. Key points included the need for more dementia training for caregivers, with only 7,000 of the required 30,000 geriatricians currently available. Statistics showed one in nine people over 65 has Alzheimer’s, and 66%…
We were honored to have leading authors Bradley Schurman and Kerry Hannon join us for a discussion of their books. Book publicist Robert Newman provided book promotion tips to all authors in our field. Our own Debbie Howard spoke about her Caregiving Crisis book. Bradley Schurman gave some insights from his “The Super Age Decoding…
Experts in Fitness and AgeTech discussed the importance of designing both products and digital platforms with accessibility in mind, user testing, and collaboration with healthcare entities. They also emphasized the need for tailoring fitness programs for seniors with dementia and supporting caregivers. This outstanding group of leaders includes product founders. Recorded on 3-17-22, this episode…
This episode celebrated International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month by sharing insights and experiences of women in the Rethinking Aging Club community. Key speakers included Sky Bergman, who discussed her film “Lives Well Lived,” which highlights positive aging stories and her discussion guide; Susie Singer Carter, who shared her film “My Mom and the…
This episode focused on caregiver-friendly and mobility products. Key presentations included John Debenedette’s Abby, a lightweight, foldable smart wheelchair, and Dr. Puja Viswanathan’s Brave Mobility blind spot sensors for wheelchairs. Daniel Rumack discussed Robotics Care’s bathing machine for independent hygiene. Maxwell Cohen introduced Peel Away Labs’ multi-layered bed sheets for easy changes. Dor Skuler highlighted…
In this episode we featured two dementia care products and asked several caregiving professionals and fellow entrepreneurs to offer advice for their start up challenges. Most of the issues centered around marketing. Benjamin Surmi introduced the two companies: Zinnia TV and elovee A consistent marketing challenge for these products is the need to reach both…
We were very pleased to feature Hon Pak MD, SVP, Samsung Electronics. The concept for this episode was to discuss the importance of establishing baselines of health numbers so that we will have them when there is an incident. The discussion migrated to how tech can help with monitoring health. Dr. Pak detailed how wearables…
