Dr. George Ackerman Founder of TogetherForSharon
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a good friend of show as our guest, Dr. George Ackerman the found of TogetherForSharon.
Dr. George Ackerman is from Brooklyn, N.Y. Now residing in Florida, he works in the fields of law, police, and education. George lost his mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman on 1/1/2020 due to Parkinson’s Disease.
George wanted to honor his mother and continue to help in the Parkinson’s awareness cause and did not know how to bring change. With my family, we started TogetherForSharon® as a family for the purpose of keeping my mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman’s, memory alive and to share the message of Parkinson’s Awareness and hope for a cure.
Today https://www.togetherforsharon.com/ reaches thousands of individuals across the country for PD Awareness. George currently interviews individuals throughout the Parkinson’s community including various foundations, caregivers, and Parkinson’s warriors to help share their stories and causes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.0 | 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 |
| 0:29.5 | taking 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 |
| 0:35.9 | here at all home care matters, |
| 0:43.0 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome a remarkable person, |
| 0:51.0 | friend, and son, Dr. George Ackerman, from Together for Sharon. Welcome, Dr. George. How are you? |
| 0:55.7 | Thanks. I'm doing good only because of individuals like you and your organization who inspire me every day. I just want to thank you and the listeners also and viewers for your time today. |
| 1:02.3 | Absolutely. Well, the feeling is mutual. You know, is it okay to call you, George? Of course. I usually go by |
| 1:08.3 | Sharon's on George, but I don't expect you to say that 100 times. |
| 1:12.4 | You know, George, we've had a couple of just really pleasant and wonderful phone calls prior to the recording today. |
| 1:18.9 | And when we first met and first spoke, you know, I had said that the work you're doing for your mother as her son and as a result of Parkinson's community as a whole |
| 1:31.1 | has been so just inspiring for myself that I just admire it immensely. I want to start though with |
| 1:39.3 | the origins of together for Sharon and your advocacy work you're doing. |
| 1:44.3 | Your mother developed Parkinson's, and I'll let you pick it up from there. |
| 1:47.7 | Yeah, unfortunately, she had it for about 15, 16 years. |
| 1:50.9 | She passed away. |
| 1:52.2 | About four years it's going to be, and we're coming to the holidays, |
| 1:55.3 | which is really the toughest time. |
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