Brian Harvey & Wendy Adlerstein Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Brian and Wendy Are Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
We are pleased to welcome Brian and Wendy to the Caregiver Smile Summit.
Brian is a Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist from the National Association of Home Builders. He is an EPA Lead-Safe Renovator, and has numerous years experience in residential construction. Brian earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maine where he double majored in Marketing and Management. He assures that HHM stays up to date with the latest and greatest home accessibility building strategies. Brian holds a MA Unrestricted Construction Supervisor License.
Wendy is the Director of Client Care Services for First Light Home Care of West Suburban Boston. She has more than 20 years of experience in working with seniors. Wendy holds a B.A. from Clark University, in Psychology with a concentration in Sociology and Human Services. In addition to her Massachusetts License in Social Work, she holds a Certificate in Gerontology from the Worcester Consortium Gerontology Program.
She is a member of the Aging Life Care Association (ALCA), formerly the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers. Finally, Wendy is a Certified Dementia Practitioner® in good standing from the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners.
Her topic on the caregiver smile summit is: Retrofit Your Home for Safety and Comfort
Find out more about the Caregiver Smile Summit – www.caregiversummit.org
Aamod Wagh is Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Aamod is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
We are pleased to welcome Aamod Wagh Salomon to the Caregiver Smile Summit.
Aamond is the Founder and CEO of TigerTech Smart Living – a startup with a vision to leverage todays technologies that intersect IoT, Healthcare, wearables, and smart homes to bring the Future of Smart, Safe and Healthy Living to the masses and to our senior citizens. He has over 30 years of global industry experience having worked with various multi-national companies across Asia, Europe and the US.
TigerTech was born with a mission to bring the highest level of intelligence into wireless & wearable IoT products to make your daily life safer, healthier, smarter and more secure. We strive to improve your life by developing products that are simple to install, easy to use, elegantly designed, affordable, work well under any conditions, and can protect you and your family on a 24×7 basis using mobile devices. The Products integrate the latest functionalities in wearable healthcare sensors, smart living technologies and the endless opportunities provided by the Internet of Things to help people to feel safe, secure and be far more confident in going about their daily lives.
These are things that matter most. That’s what drives us……. and we’re just getting started.
Her topic on the caregiver smile summit is: Smart Wearables and Their Impact on the Daily Lives of People Living with Dementia
Find out more about the Caregiver Smile Summit – www.caregiversummit.org
Our Friday Song of the Week-Woodstock – The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down
Our Friday Song of the Week – Woodstock – The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down
After seeing Santana in Charlotte my wife and I were inspired to have a Woodstock party. Not taking my duties lately, I found the Woodstock lineup and all the songs that were performed. I took it upon myself to try to learn at least one or two songs from each artist at Woodstock in the order of appearance. Some artists or songs were so obscure that I had to skip them or I simply did not know the songs. For some artists I didn’t care for the songs that they did at Woodstock so I did another one of their songs that they made famous after Woodstock. I figured it was only appropriate to rehearse in my garage and to tape the rehearsal as opposed to going into my more polished studio and hooking up everything to my sound system on my computer. So what you’re seeking and hearing is my replication of our version of Woodstock complete with the garage band feel, me in jeans and a T-shirt and unshaven. Please pardon the surroundings, but I thought it would add some authenticity, but I hope you enjoy the songs. So here’s one by Joan Baez called The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down. (Not performed at Woodstock.)
Kate Schutt is Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Kate is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
We are pleased to welcome Kate Schutt to the Caregiver Smile Summit.
Kate is an award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist, and producer whose voice NPR calls “glassily clear and glossily sweet.” Kate studied the influence of jazz on poetry at Harvard, and studied jazz guitar at Berklee College of Music. Working with legendary producer/arranger Rob Mounsey, Kate just finished recording her new album, Bright Nowhere. It maps the landscape of loss around her mother’s diagnosis and death from ovarian cancer. Kate spent four years as her mom’s primary caregiver, along the way writing songs about life, loss, and (to use Christopher Hitchens’s potent phrase) “living dyingly.” Known for her authenticity and deep connection to her fans, Kate’s been blogging about this life/death experience from the start.
Kate’s songs have won top honors from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and ASCAP. After nearly a decade living and making music in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, she now calls New York City home. The talk, “A Grief Casserole – How to help your friends & family through loss,” was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Her topic on the caregiver smile summit is: A Grief Casserole: How to help your friends and family through loss
Find out more about the Caregiver Smile Summit – www.caregiversummit.org
Mollie Lacher is Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Molly is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
We are pleased to welcome Mollie Lacher to the Caregiver Smile Summit.
Mollie Lacher is a Tennessee native with an undergrad degree from the University of Tennessee and graduate degree from Vanderbilt University. Mollie has worked in project management for the majority of her career and most recently was project manager at Bridgestone focusing on their new HQ building in downtown Nashville. After the unexpected passing of her brother-in-law, Mollie felt a calling to start a business that helped other families like her’s navigate all of the to-do’s after losing a loved one, and thus, Sunny Care Services was born. Sunny Care Services brings planning, project management, and concierge services to families who have lost a loved one so that families can focus on healing and finding a new normal without being burdened by the tactical and administrative tasks that come with closing out a loved one’s life.
Her topic on the caregiver smile summit is: Knowledge and Clarity for Families Navigating Loss
Find out more about the Caregiver Smile Summit – www.caregiversummit.org
