The Care Advocates with Lance A. Slatton & Sharon's Son, George "A Caregiving Story"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Care Advocates is brought to you by the All Home Care Matters Media team and focuses on providing family caregivers and their loved ones with support, resources, and discussion on the issues facing them in the matrix of long-term care.
The Care Advocates are co-hosted by Lance A. Slatton & Dr. George Ackerman.
The Care Advocates are honored to welcome Dr. Pearl L. Harmon as guest to the show.
About Dr. Pearl L. Harmon:
Dr. Pearl L. Harmon is a caregiver strategist, leadership consultant, and former long-term family caregiver. She works at the intersection of caregiving, systems, and leadership—helping caregivers build clarity and capacity, and helping organizations understand how caregiving impacts health, workforce stability, and outcomes.
Caregivers consistently share that her work helps them feel seen, grounded, and confident in decisions they once doubted.
About Aging Care Navigators:
Aging Care Navigators exists to help caregivers and organizations build the structure, language, and support systems caregiving actually requires—before burnout or crisis forces rushed decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Welcome back to the care advocates. I am your co-host, Lance A. Slatton, as always joined by my esteemed colleague and friend, |
| 0:39.4 | Dr. George Ackerman, also known better as Sharon's son, George. Today we have a special guest |
| 0:44.7 | joining us, Dr. Pearl L. Harmon. Welcome. How are you? I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:51.3 | It's our pleasure. Is it okay to call you, Pearl? Absolutely. |
| 0:55.0 | Wonderful. |
| 0:59.8 | You know, Pearl, we're going to get to learn a lot about you and the tremendous work you're doing, |
| 1:06.6 | but I want to give George a second to introduce him and tell a little bit about his background for our new viewers and listeners. |
| 1:10.7 | I want to thank you, Lance, for all the work you do behind the scenes. |
| 1:16.7 | And, of course, our team has become almost like brothers and want to welcome our incredible guests. |
| 1:22.1 | My background is, of course, lost my mother, unfortunately, due to Parkinson's disease. |
| 1:29.5 | And I don't know if it's our advocacy, but things are kind of taking off just finally on TV recently. |
| 1:34.5 | We're heading back to Washington, D.C. in a week or two with the Michael J. Fox Foundation to advocate to our representatives throughout the country, how important is to fund |
| 1:39.2 | NIH research towards a cure for all diseases. But it's always, again, an honor because this show |
| 1:45.3 | concentrates a lot more on the caregiver side. |
| 1:48.1 | Ironically, I've spent like probably 24-7 talking about Parkinson's and my mother, and I literally |
| 1:53.5 | don't talk about caregiving at all. |
| 1:55.3 | So that's why this show means the world to me. |
| 1:57.6 | And again, I'm an honor to be back with everyone listening. And we said I love to |
| 2:01.8 | and support to everyone out there. Thank you, George. Dr. Pearl, do you want to just take a moment |
| 2:06.6 | and give a brief introduction to yourself? And then George is going to kick it off with some |
| 2:10.9 | questions for you. Sure. So I am Dr. Pearl, El Harmon. I'm a caregiver, strategist, |
| 2:16.6 | leadership consultant, and a caregiver for the past 15 |
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