The Care Advocates with Lance A. Slatton & Sharon's Son, George "Caregiver Resilience"

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

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

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 26 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 topic of this episode is "Caregiver Resilience"

About Lance A. Slatton - The Senior Care Influencer:

Lance A. Slatton is an author, writer, host, producer, healthcare professional for over 20 years, and renownedly known as "The Senior Care Influencer". Lance A. Slatton is the host of the Award-Winning podcast & YouTube show All Home Care Matters. He is also a senior case manager at Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, MI.

Lance was named as "50 under 50" for 2023 and received the distinction as the Top Influencer for Healthcare and Advocacy for 2024. Lance is also a columnist for multiple healthcare and news websites and and is the author of the award winning book "The All Home Care Matters Official Family Caregivers' Guide".

About Sharon's Son, George:

Dr. George Ackerman (Sharon’s son) 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.

George started TogetherForSharon® as a family for the purpose of keeping his 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.

Connect with Lance A. Slatton:

Official Website:

https://www.lanceaslatton.com

Official Website for All Home Care Matters:

https://www.allhomecarematters.com

Connect with Sharon's Son, George:

Official Website:

https://www.togetherforsharon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome back to the care advocates where we're advocating for you.
0:38.6	Today we're talking about Dr. George Ackerman's new book, Voices of Resilience.
0:45.2	Welcome back to the care advocates.
0:47.2	I am your co-host, Lance A. Slat, and I'm also the host of All Home Care Matters and the co-hosts of the Caregivers Journal and Conscious Caregiving with
0:54.1	L&L. I'm here with my distinguished friend and co-hosts, Dr. George Ackerman, also known as Sharon's son,
1:01.6	George. Welcome, George. How are you today? Good. I just want to let the audience know how amazing you are
1:06.8	and all the things you do. And I don't feel that I would be really able to get through some of the tougher days without a friend like you and this entire caregiving community.
1:18.1	Unfortunately, last week, Saturday would have been my mother's birthday.
1:21.9	We lost her due to Parkinson's.
1:23.7	And as you know, as well as you do, I've dedicated my life to advocacy, but very important
1:30.6	to keep stressing that our show together is going to focus on all diseases, all illnesses,
1:36.7	and all caregivers, not specifically just Parkinson's, although I love the Parkinson's community.
1:43.0	I find it very important to share our journeys
1:46.2	and others, and that's hopefully we'll be discussing today, because everyone has a different journey,
1:53.1	but we all are brought together for the same purpose, and that's making sure no one ever feels alone.
1:59.0	Absolutely. I couldn't have said that better george you know the the show the care
2:03.8	advocates that you and i discussed about creating we've we've created it and you know here we are
2:08.7	and we're only into our third recording now and you know when i was thinking earlier about you know
2:16.6	what what should the topic be today? I thought
2:18.9	no better topic than your new book. It's just a coincidence that it just recently came out.
2:24.5	And it's, you know, voices of resilience. You know, you were joking. I have the collector's edition
2:29.3	because this is the full book. It's over 560 pages of important information.
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