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Medication Overload: Time For An Action Plan

by Jana Panarites | Jan 30, 2020 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest | 0 comments

In the last two decades the number of people age 65 or older who are taking five or more medications has increased 300 percent.  A problem that is much bigger than America’s opioid crisis, the scope and impact of over-prescribing in older adults is detailed in...

Episode 186: VIP Care Management With Sonja Kobrin

by Jana Panarites | Jan 16, 2020 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest | 0 comments

  Geriatric Care Manager Sonja Kobrin was in her twenties when she began caring for the grandparents who raised her.  She had no help and was traumatized by the experience, but it informed her approach years later, when she cared for the biological father who had...

Episode 185: LGBTQ Sandwich Generation

by Jana Panarites | Dec 12, 2019 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest | 0 comments

Brent Wright is one of 64 million sandwich generation Americans who simultaneously cared for an aging parent and his kids, all under the same roof.  What made their setup unusual?  His mom moved in with Brent and his husband, Sandis, plus their two daughters. Brent...

Autism Village Founder Topher Wurts

by Jana Panarites | Nov 28, 2019 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest | 0 comments

One in 68 children born in the US today is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum.  The vast majority of them are being raised by single moms, and boys make up roughly three-quarters of those diagnosed.  Faced with these and other alarming statistics, Topher...

Episode 184 – Shaista Kazmi: Serving Elderly Ethnic Minorities

by Jana Panarites | Nov 14, 2019 | Podcasts, Podcasts - Newest | 0 comments

  Michigan resident Shaista Kazmi has firsthand knowledge of the isolation and guilt felt by millions of family caregivers. But as a Pakistani Muslim, she’s had the added challenge of finding culturally competent home health aides for her elderly family...
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