Caregiver Dave Podcast

Becoming a Medical Advocate for Yourself & Your Loved One, Nancy Perpall

Nancy was a Critical Care Nurse before she entered law school in her 30s to become a highly regarded divorce attorney. As a nurse she cared for those with physical problems and as a divorce attorney she helped her clients with the emotionally issues that come with ending a relationship they thought would last forever. Shortly after we retired, my husband had a stroke and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. I have been his caregiver ever since and know, first-hand the struggles a caregiver faces regardless of how much they love the person they’re caring for.

What You Don’t Know or Understand about Long-Term Care Insurence, Lyle Benjamin

Lyle Benjamin is an author, educator, financial advisor, and Social Responsibility Entrepreneur. He is the past publisher of the newsstand magazine Relationships Today and the Founder of three non-profit organizations dedicated to providing collaborative solutions to solving global issues that threaten Quality of Life for kids, people, and the planet.

How to Effectively Manage Chronic Pain, Author of, ”Got Pain? Now What? Vita Oyler

Vita Oyler is a Rehabilitation Counselor M.S., who helps people get back on their feet after illness, injury, and more. She is a counselor to not only her patients but to their families as well. She has emphasis in dealing with chronic pain. She is the author of the upcoming book GOT PAIN? NOW WHAT?

Prevent Caregiver Burnout with Help from Artificial Intelligence, Miki Rossanis

Miki Rossanis is the Head of Clinical Development at Sensi.Ai. Miki brings years of field experience as an OT in older adult care and rehabilitation to guide Sensi’s research and development and go to market strategy. Driven by her passion to merge the worlds of care and technology, Miki employs her clinical background to create revolutionary change in the field of long-term care.

The Formula for Longevity and Remaining Youthful, Dr David Bernstein

David Bernstein, MD is a highly-respected, award winning physician board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric. Dr. Bernstein is a graduate of Albany Medical College and is an associate clinical professor at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Bernstein is an engaging and entertaining public speaker. His publications include: I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You’re OLD, Tales of a Geriatrician, What to Expect in Your 60s, 70s, 80s, and Beyond Senior Driving Dilemmas, Lifesaving Strategies The Power of 5: The Ultimate Formula for Longevity and Remaining Youthful. The Power of 5: A Journal for A Journal for Health, Longevity and Wellness

How to Live Longer Without Growing Older, Karen Owoc

“How to Live Longer Without Growing Older™” — Learn how to put your longevity back in your control. Karen’s message: “Your age is a given. Growing old is a choice.™

Karen Owoc, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-CET is a clinical exercise physiologist in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. She is also a speaker and trainer in functional longevity and has been the weekly TV health expert on KRON 4 News in San Francisco for the past five years, speaking on all aspects of health in over 200 television interviews. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, Karen focuses on the fascinating findings of human longevity and the centenarian lifestyle.

Karen has extensive experience teaching nutrition and prescribing exercise as a treatment and prevention strategy for high-risk adults challenged with conditions often associated with lifestyle, such as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, and cancer.

Because of her love for sports, her background as a competitive freestyle skier, and family history of early-onset heart disease and stroke, Karen focused on a career path where food and exercise are used to treat, manage, and prevent disease. She just released her first book on functional longevity, “Athletes in Aprons: The Nutrition Playbook to Break 100”. The essence of her book: Your age is a given. Growing old is a choice.™ Karen posts her longevity tips each week on her website, KarenOwoc.com.

 

Pets Can Save Your Life – Carol Novello

Join Dave Nassaney, the Caregiver’s caregiver, and his lovely co-host, Adrienne Gruberg, as they interview Carol Novello, the founder of Mutual Rescue™, a national initiative that highlights the connection between people and pets. Mutual Rescue’s first film, “Eric & Peety,” went viral around the world and has been viewed more than 100 million times. Carol, what was the inspiration behind creating Mutual Rescue?

Easy Access to Your Medical Records, Tom Alexander

Tom Alexander, CMO at CEO of Radius Care, is a thought leader in the health-tech industry. Tom’s personal experience as a family care advocate for his mother while battling his guilt for unintentionally overburdening his father inspired him to join Radius Care’s mission. Now, Tom has committed himself to spreading awareness about the resources available to seniors and their loved ones, as well as the need for value-based care in the nation’s healthcare system.

Sexual Soulmates: The Six Essentials for Connected Sex, Susan Bratton

We all crave connection. We long for partnership and passion. We pray for sexual ecstasy, rapture, and union. We know in our bones there is more to explore, more pleasure to be had. We want it all. And we want to give our all. But we don't have a map to lead us into that territory. Susan Bratton's Six Essentials for Connected Sex give us that map. Much of the relationship advice we hear is rooted in the belief that “relationships are hard,” and you have to do a lot of healing work before you can love freely. The approach mapped out in Sexual Soulmates turns that model upside down by making playful sex the focal point for healing and transformation. Relationship frustrations melt away in the crucible of what Susan calls "erotic playdates." The time and energy that previously went into the struggle gets redirected. You start to bring out the best in each other—in the bedroom and out —and empower each other to give your gifts to the world. Most men and women don’t have the basic building blocks for sexual fulfillment. This book puts those basics in your hands. These essentials are so obvious, so simple, and so much fun to play with, they can turn your sex life into an outrageous adventure. In a world where digital natives get their sex education from ography, where hookups are practically obligatory, and where everyone’s head is in their phone rather than their heart, Sexual Soulmates provides the antidote by showing people how to feel their natural desire, follow their pleasure, and TRUST that asking for what they want is a surefire way to get it. These simple strategies will transform your sex life into a love-drenched journey of epic-erotic proportions.

Adrienne Gruberg, of ”The Caregiver Space” Shares Life Before Caregiving

The Caregiver Space grew out of a personal need to connect with other caregivers and be part of a community where experiences and feelings could be shared and support could always be gotten. Understanding there are so many causes that make someone a caregiver made this site evolve into a place where a caregiver for any reason, could come and have a place to air their feelings – keeping them in is both exhausting and counter- productive. There are many services available to caregivers of patient with specific needs, but our concern is exclusively to comfort and help the caregiver.