Andrew Karesa CEO & Founder of blueBell Village

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton (@lanceaslatton) were honored to welcome Andrew Karesa CEO and Founder of @bluebellvillage as guest to the show.

About Andrew Karesa:

Andrew Karesa is a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and a proud husband and father of two young sons.

After witnessing how his family coped to support his grandmother with her Alzheimer's diagnosis, Andrew realized he needed to take action. This inspired the creation of blueBell Village, aimed at Restoring the Personhood and Independence of those living with dementia™. With blueBell, Andrew has seen lives transformed for both individuals living with dementia and their caregivers, and he is passionate about fostering a world where care is tailored to each individual's needs.

Additionally, he is pursuing his doctorate at the University of Calgary, where his research explores Indigenous entrepreneurship in the health sector, with a particular focus on the role of data in new venture creation. Andrew also holds an MBA from the University of Alberta. Before founding blueBell Village, he worked as a practicing engineer in the energy sector.

About blueBell Village:

blueBell Village is a health innovation company rooted in Indigenous values, dedicated to transforming the dementia care experience for families and caregivers. Founded in Canada, blueBell Village focuses on bridging clinical best practices with cultural and community-based knowledge to improve quality of life for people living with dementia—particularly in underserved and Indigenous communities.

Its flagship tool, blueBell Connect, is a digital support platform that helps care teams deliver personalized, culturally appropriate, and clinically grounded care. Unlike traditional caregiver tools, Connect doesn't just share information—it guides action. It enables caregivers to coordinate with one another, share updates in real time, and receive recommendations that are tailored to the specific needs, routines, and cultural contexts of the individual they support.

With a focus on inclusion, personalization, and dignity, blueBell Village is building tools that meet people where they are—and helping communities take care of their own.

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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.
0:23.9	Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:26.4	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking
0:29.8	time out to be with us today.
0:31.5	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode
0:35.8	here at All home care matters,
0:42.8	something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we're honored to welcome Andrew Carissa.
0:48.1	He is the president and CEO of Bluebell Village. Welcome, Andrew. How are you today?
0:53.3	I'm good. Thank you. Thanks, Lance, for having me. Oh, it's our pleasure. We always love working with our friends north of us in Canada where you're at. Is it okay if I call you, Andy? Yeah, absolutely. That's what most people call me, other than my mother. Okay. I can understand and appreciate that. So, you know, Andy, why don't we just start off first? I want to have you kind of describe what Blue Bell Village is all about
1:11.0	and a little bit about your background before we get into the questions for our viewers and listeners.
1:16.2	Sure. So let's start with what Blue Bell Village is all about because I think that's ultimately
1:21.0	the most important thing. Blue Bell Village is a company and a movement that I created. Initially it wasn't to support people
1:31.2	dementia on a broader lens. Initially it was just to support my grandmother. As she was going
1:35.8	through Alzheimer's, I really noticed that the people around her and the people we were trying
1:39.8	to get to support her were doing the best they can, but there were limitations. And I started saying,
1:48.0	we need to do something different. We're called Bluebell Village because the initial idea was
1:53.6	let's build a dementia village. As we all know, the world went crazy in 2020 and 2021, and the process of creating it became unsustainable reasonably quickly.
2:11.0	So we end up shifting to this thing we talk about later called Bluebell Connect.
2:17.1	But really Bluebell Village was the idea of how do we give people living with dementia the
2:23.8	autonomy and the ability to do what they would normally do.
2:30.1	Our slogan is restoring the personhood and independence of those living with dementia.
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