Alison van Schie, BSW, Host of The Island Treasures Podcast & Caregiving Consultant
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Alison van Schie, BSW, as guest to the show.
About Alison van Schie, BSW:
With a background in social work spanning more than 25 years across four Canadian provinces, Alison van Schie brings deep insight and a compassionate, practical approach into her position as a caregiver consultant - supporting caregivers. Her experience includes working with seniors in community and long term care, as well as with individuals and families navigating complex circumstances.
In 2019, she founded Alongside Caregiver Consulting, and in 2020 she introduced the Island Treasures podcast. Through both, she supports caregivers of loved ones living with dementia or chronic illness. The podcast highlights caregivers' lived experiences and offers practical resources and insights. It has recently expanded with a new chapter exploring life after caregiving, providing guidance through the emotional and identity shifts that follow the caregiving journey.
About Alongside Caregiver Consulting & Island Treasures Podcast:
Founded in 2019, Alongside Caregiver Consulting has provided compassionate, practical support to caregivers navigating dementia and chronic illness. As the practice gradually scales back, its focus is shifting entirely to podcasting, where the conversations can reach and support an even wider caregiving community.
In 2020, the Island Treasures podcast was launched. It highlights caregivers' lived experiences and offers practical resources and insights. The podcast has recently grown to include a dedicated chapter exploring life after caregiving, providing thoughtful guidance through the emotional and identity shifts that follow the caregiving journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions 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. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.9 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.3 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.2 | here at All home care matters, |
| 0:37.8 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, I am honored to welcome a remarkable guest |
| 0:43.1 | and friend, Allison Van Shee. She is the host of the Islands Treasure podcast. Welcome, Allison. |
| 0:50.8 | How are you? Oh, Lance, I'm so happy to be visiting with you again. I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:56.2 | Well, I was just on the Island Treasures podcast, and it was very relaxing and a great environment, even though I wasn't there in person. |
| 1:04.8 | But I think just the name lends itself to upbeat and positive experience. So thank you again for inviting me. Yeah, I wanted to have you on, |
| 1:13.3 | though, Allison, because, you know, you've been doing this for a long time. And I think it's important |
| 1:18.4 | people learn about you and how you got involved with this. So if you wouldn't mind, |
| 1:22.6 | share a little bit about who you are and what you're doing. Okay. well, thanks for that. And your episode is going to |
| 1:29.3 | air on April 23rd on the Island Treasures podcast, just so folks can know to watch for you. And it |
| 1:35.6 | is a fantastic episode, just going to say that. Yeah, no, it was a pleasure to have you. So a little |
| 1:42.8 | bit about me. I'm going to share something that I have never shared publicly before. |
| 1:48.0 | And that's, I am now a senior. |
| 1:51.9 | So I'm a senior working with seniors. |
| 1:54.8 | And yeah, I may have looked like a senior for many years, but now I actually am one. So that's new. But yeah, so I'm |
| 2:06.3 | happily married to my husband of over 45 years, no, 44 years this year. And I have two grown |
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