"A Kids Book About Long-Term Care" with Author Jenny Abeling & Illustrator Mary Matthews

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome the team behind the book "A Kids Book to Long-Term Care" Author Jenny Abeling & Illustrator Mary Mattews as guests to the show.

About Jenny Abeling:

Jenny Abeling brings two decades of unwavering dedication to advocacy and caring for our communities. A seasoned healthcare executive and nationally recognized force, she has relentlessly championed the rights of vulnerable communities, leaving an indelible mark on programs and communities nationwide. As a long-term care leader, she is a champion for older Americans and has earned recognition for her exceptional efforts in advocating for those often left unseen and unheard.

Recently, she pioneered the Essential Worker Healthcare Program which is a first-in-the-nation effort to lift up the health and wellness of long-term care workers. In every campaign, every program, and every endeavor, Jenny continues to prove that change is not just possible -- it's inevitable under the guidance of a visionary leader.

About Mary Matthews:

Mary Matthews is a communications creative with expertise in television, digital arts, branding, and marketing. With over 18 years of experience creating content and running creative communications for nonprofits, advocacy campaigns, and corporate clients, Mary delivers compelling production work to every project she takes on. Her impactful storytelling, strong work ethic, and distinct sense of humor produce highly creative projects that resonate across a variety of industries and platforms.

About Gal Pal Productions:

Gal Pal Productions was launched by two highly creative, accomplished, and driven advocates deeply committed to lifting the voices of the often unseen and unheard through impactful visual storytelling. Co-founders and Executive Producers, Jenny Abeling and Mary Matthews, work tirelessly to prioritize and elevate intergenerational narratives into the larger cultural conversation through film, video, photography, illustration, graphic arts, and publications.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions
0:06.8	on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by top rated local.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first time
0:27.2	visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time out to be
0:30.8	with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is
0:34.0	is and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters
0:38.0	something that will hopefully matter to you.
0:40.0	Today we are honored to welcome the author and illustrator for a kids book about
0:46.2	long-term care Jenny Abling and Mary Matthews. Welcome.
0:53.0	Yeah, thank you so much for having us here.
0:55.0	We're so excited to talk about our new book.
0:57.0	Yeah, we are too. We are too.
0:59.0	You know, kids, you know, I have young kids and you know we deal with families all the time and
1:06.6	children are usually the ones that have the hardest time understanding what
1:11.5	might be going on with grandma or grandpa or you know even
1:15.6	sometimes a parent in some cases and part of the problem too is you know they are
1:21.4	children but adults don't often know how to
1:24.9	explain it to children because they're not a part of the health care
1:27.8	atmosphere or environment and so they can't answer well, mom, why did Grandpa not know who I was?
1:35.8	You know, what is dementia?
1:37.6	What is this?
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