Senior Care

Top Tip for Traveling Seniors: Do not forget to pack Your Personal Health Information

Diane Carbo RN and CEO of MyVitalAlert.com and CareGiverRelief.com who works with seniors to remain at home for as long as possible joins eHealth Radio and the Senior Care and Travel Health Care Channels. She and her team identified a need for a simple to use Medical ID system that provides specific health information for aging seniors.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Diane Carbo discuss the following:Can you tell me why personal health information is important when traveling?What is considered important personal information? What important information should be included? Who do you share your personal medical information with? How should a person store their personal health information?
Duration: 9:35
My name is Diane Carbo. I’m a licensed registered nurse with over 39 years experience practicing in a variety of organizations and community settings and as an advocate for older adults and their families.
My passion is to help people plan for long term health care needs.
This includes helping families with crisis management that requires
long term health care. The goal is to assist these individual’s to
remain independent and in their homes or a familiar surrounding for as
long as possible.
My commitment to enhance the lives of aging adults comes not only
from clinical experience, but from personal experience while caring for
my father and mother in law.
I was a very young woman, when I saw the mental and emotional decline
that occurred in my grandmother when my father and his brothers decided
it was time to place her in a nursing home. I vowed to do everything in
my power to assist my aging loved ones to stay at home as they aged.
My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 72. When
he was told that hospice was his only option, he was devastated. My
father was man of modest means, but he had a timeshare in Hawaii. He
saved and planned his vacation there every other year. This was the year
he was to go to Hawaii. His first thoughts were that he would have to
cancel his trip.
I asked my father to wait and see how he was feeling before he
cancelled his trip. I explained the role of hospice was not so much
about dying, as it was about how you chose to live your life before you
die.
A few weeks later, my father spent 6 weeks in Hawaii on hospice. His
mental, emotional and physical health improved so much the first week
that the nurses felt that he did not require their services. My dad
started feeling sick they & just before he was to return home to the
mainland. He died at home several weeks later surrounded by his family
and friends. I believe he lasted as long as he did because he was
mentally, spiritually and emotionally uplifted by his ability live out
his dream of taking his last trip.
I have a passion for helping aging adults realize their goal of remaining at home as they age.
I have a strong belief that aging adults do better, live longer and
healthier lives surrounded by their loved ones and familiar
surroundings. My work in senior behavioral health, Assisted Living, Long
Term Care and Home care made me aware of the struggles family members
caring for some one at home with dementia struggle and feel
misunderstood, alone and unsupported.
I came to experience and understand the frustration so many
experience along the caregiving journey. From this knowledge and my
passion to help others, it is the goal of this site to help family
caregivers and individuals suffering from dementia have an experience
 that will enhance the care partner/care recipient  relationship. As the
dementia progresses, it is my goal to develop a trust and confidence in
the care partner so that they will communicate effectively to build the
dementia patient’s sense of well being. Person centered care,
activities, mindfulness and validation therapy are all effective
approaches to use as the increasing challenges of  communicating. The
person with dementia progressively loses the ability to remember
things, to organize, or even to express their thoughts. I look forward
to working with you to make your caregiving journey the best possible
experience it can be. Please do not have delusions, there are some very
difficult times ahead. Together, we can create an experience that will
enhance the relationship you and for your family member with dementia.

Websites: MyVitalAlert.com | CareGiverRelief.com

Oplink Connected, an In-home Medical Alert monitoring service

Matt Wisk, Senior Vice President of Business Development of Oplink Connected, a division of Oplink Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPLK), offering an In-home Medical Alert monitoring service joins eHealth Radio and the Healthcare and Technology Channels.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels and guest Matt Wisk discuss the following: We hear all these terms like Smart Home, Connected Home and IoT. What is it all about and how does it apply to health care?What has oplink providing that will allow people to enhance health care?Describe your solution and how it works.How will this product enable people to have a better quality of life?What can we expect next from Oplink Connected and where can listeners buy the products & or get more information?
Duration: 7:34
Matt Wisk has nearly 30 years of general management and marketing experience. He served as President for MyPoints.com, a subsidiary of United Online, from 2008 to 2013. He was promoted into that role after serving as Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President for United Online consumer brands, including Classmates.com, NetZero and Juno from 2005 to 2008. He was also responsible for marketing within the Communications segment including operating responsibility for the broadband and web hosting product lines.
Mr. Wisk served as Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of TiVo in 2004 and 2005. Prior to TiVo, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Herbalife International. In 1994 Mr. Wisk joined Nokia. Over a nine year period he moved up through the marketing organization to become Vice President of Marketing, North and South America, providing leadership, strategic marketing vision, and broad executive management for the international marketing of its mobile phone division.  He moved to Europe to run global marketing for Nokia Networks from 2000 to 2002.
At Nokia, he was a key executive in the marketing team that helped establish Nokia as a global leader in wireless communications equipment. Under his leadership, Nokia grew from having single-digit brand awareness to being the most considered and preferred brand in the category. He serves as board member for Storage Appliance Corporation and is an advisory board member at Trueffect, BlurbIQ and Underground Cellar. He was named one of the 'Top 100 Marketers of 1999' by Advertising Age and 'Grand Marketer of the Year, 2000' by Brandweek, was also awarded the Gold Effie Award for Advertising Effectiveness in 2001. Mr. Wisk is a Henry Crown Fellow, Class of 2002, from the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. Mr. Wisk received his BA and MBA from Michigan State University.

Website: www.oplinkconnected.com

BeClose, an in-home caregiving technology provider

Liddy Manson, President of BeClose, an in-home caregiving technology provider joins eHealth Radio and the Senior Care and Technology Channels.

Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Liddy Manson discuss the following:What led you to start BeClose?How is BeClose different from other products on the market? Can you give us one or two real world examples of how BeClose is making a difference in people's lives? Many people get easily intimidated or overwhelmed by technology.  Can you suggest a few easy, simple ways that people can begin to bring technology into their lives, especially seniors? Can you talk a little bit about the changing healthcare landscape and how you think technology will play a role in that in the future?
Duration: 12:55
Liddy Manson is President of BeClose and a nationally recognized voice on Aging in America, speaking frequently on the topic across the country and blogging regularly at Huffington Post and other outlets. Her mission is to transform the experience of aging at home into one that is safe, affordable, and collaborative with families. She has over 20 years of experience working with premier technology and information brands.
Before joining BeClose, she served as CEO of DigitalSports, a web service providing detailed information and coverage of high school sports throughout the country. Prior to DigitalSports, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Freewebs Inc., an early-stage social publishing company. Previously, Liddy spent nine years as Vice President and General Manager of Commercial Products at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the online subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.
Liddy holds an MBA and Certificate in Public Management from Stanford University and a BA in Music from Yale University. Liddy is not only the President of BeClose, but was also the company's first customer, using a BeClose system to care for her 85 year old mother.

Web Site: www.beclose.com
Facebook: facebook.com/beclosedotcomTwitter: @beclosedotcomPinterest: pinterest.com/beclose

Technology solutions to help our growing elderly population with Independa

Technology solutions to help our growing elderly population with Independa
with Kian Saneii
Kian Saneii, a veteran technology entrepreneur, founded Independa to develop easy, integrated technology solutions to help our growing elderly population age in place and joins the show to talk about how it is working.
Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Kian Saneii discuss the following:
What is Independa, and what services do you offer?
What sets Independa apart from other companies that provide telecare for the elderly?
Why do you think that telehealth is growing so quickly?  What issues does it address for older adults who want to remain independent, and for their caregivers?
What are the major obstacles to wider adoption of remote monitoring and social engagement, particularly for the elderly?
How do you see the future of telehealth moving?
Tip: Telehealth needs to be integrated and holistic. Both caregivers and those who receive care need a simple, one-stop solution.

Kian Saneii combines expertise as a computer scientist and experience as a software executive with passion for bringing transformational technologies to market. He founded Independa in 2009 to develop and deliver products and services that help caregivers enable the rapidly growing elderly population to remain independent longer, more safely  and more comfortably. Featured in the March 2012 issue of Entrepreneur, he has led the company’s creation of a comprehensive, easy-to-use suite of Integrated CloudCare solutions.
Previously, Saneii was General Manager of Websense Wireless, responsible for launching and growing the wireless division from the ground up, including developing new carrier-centric technology and product lines, and establishing new global distribution partners. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Websense, Inc., he redefined the company’s market positioning and helped guide it to global market dominance. In addition to his responsibility for all aspects of global marketing, Saneii oversaw strategy, mergers and acquisitions, OEM sales, and business development. As the founding GM of Websense Wireless, Saneii expanded the company’s vision to encompass the wireless revolution from a new perspective, and established Websense Wireless as a carrier-grade supplier of transformational technologies to the telco/wireless ecosystem worldwide.
Before joining Websense, Saneii served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development at IPNet Solutions. In this role, he helped B2B supply chain businesses convert from using EDI to using secure supply chain collaboration and communication systems – introducing real-time information flow and eliminating significant waste throughout the chain.
Prior to his IPNet Solutions role, Saneii served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for IMA, Inc., focusing on CRM solutions. Saneii transformed IMA’s call center solutions into customer interaction centers by integrating all customer interactions and data, redefining the entire market sector.
Earlier in his career, Saneii held management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, DIS Research and FileNet Corporation (acquired by IBM).
Saneii earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, cum laude, from New York University, where he made Phi Beta Kappa and received the President’s Award. He earned a Master of Computer Science from Rutgers University.
He has played NCAA Division 1 Soccer, was Chief Driving Instructor for BMW Car Club of America’s New York Chapter, and has a Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do. Saneii lives in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., with his wife and two sons.

Links: www.independa.com