The Nursing Home Podcast

Nancy’s podcast Glowing Older examines the intersection of wellness and senior care. With 25 years in the hospitality, health, and wellness industries, she has deep knowledge of the mental and physical benefits wellness can provide.   Wellness not only signifies keeping people healthy but also providing them with a good standard of living.   While senior care possesses the goal of keeping patients...

Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Pritma served as a registered nurse for 18 years. This first-hand experience allows her to understand what nurses want and need from employers.    As a nurse, Pritma would sometimes work double shifts that added up to 20 hours a day because of shortages.    In this time of COVID-19, facilities are often understaffed. Nurses are high in-demand and are constant...

As a geriatric social worker and memory coach who's been in the field for twenty years, Rena, knows a lot about memory and particularly how it declines.    She provides a distinction between normal memory loss and abnormal memory loss which impedes daily functioning and is associated with conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer's.    While genetics are often assumed to be the largest predictor o...

Despite starting off as a nurse and clinical liaison, Steve’s side gig of marketing and content creation soon grew into a full-service agency, Craft Media, of which he remains president.  Though senior care facilities serve an older clientele, they are really marketing to younger relatives, decision-makers and placement workers in hospitals, and potential employees.  Steve explains that all of the...

As the founder of MNT Associates and an experienced long-term care dietitian, Esther Gutman hires, trains, and provides dietitians to long-term care facilities.  Dietary is often disregarded as glorified catering when, in fact, it is one of the most prominent facets of a facility.  It is the one area of service that every resident and every family member can understand and look forward to. For thi...

Tzvi Schwartz, certified EOS Implementer, explains that if a leader must motivate employees it means that they don’t have a clear vision, their employees don’t share their core values, or their employees aren’t in the right seat. The concept of a vision refers to who a company is and where exactly it is going every day. This doesn’t have to be a grand, altruistic plan. In fact, it will be obvious...

Nathan Berger, Chief Technology Officer of DigaCore, explains that most outsiders to the trade, such as nursing home operators, are often confused about what “IT” actually does and doesn't do.   IT covers the internet and computer infrastructures.  Without the help of an IT company, nursing home technology systems will likely be designed poorly and operators will lose  lots of valuable time superv...

Yitz Rubin, Director of Business Development at Renewal Rehab, is relatively new to the healthcare industry. Having been in sales for ten years he has done his fair share of outbound marketing.  These traditional sales techniques such as cold calling and mail and email blasts work by the principal that if something is done persistently enough you will begin to see results.  This method differs wil...

Shmuel: What about the fact that this vaccine was developed so quickly? Shouldn't we be concerned that it was developed too quickly?  Katherine: No.  This is a different type of vaccine. It's an mRNA vaccine which can be developed efficiently in a much shorter time frame.  Shmuel: When they started working on a vaccine, did they know it would take this quickly?  Katherine: It's not earth shatterin...

Why did I start this podcast?  It's actually pretty simple.  I started the podcast to find the answers to basic questions that weren't showing up in the Google results.  I was only finding flowery and jargon-filled content but nothing that spoke to me in a practical way telling me what to do. The Nursing Home Podcast was created to fill this void. I've received so many beautiful messages from owne...

So let's say it as it is.  Social media marketing is not magic.  You don't just press a few buttons, get some engagement and your business soars through the roof.  It's not that simple.  A good content strategy does give you a fantastic way to provide value and engage with your target audience. It will encourage them to take the next step you'd like them to take.  This can mean applying for a job,...

Caleb York is the Channel Development Manager for VirtueSense and joined the company as a result of witnessing the ineffectiveness of other fall-prevention technologies during his time working at the University of Michigan Health System. While other industries have successfully become more automated and as technologically advanced, healthcare continues to lag behind.  Most senior care facilities f...

Remember the good old days with the town doctor came to your house when you weren't feeling right?  Didn't think so.  But there was a time when that was the norm. The advances of medicine have moved that experience to the doctors practice we're all his tools are available to him. Well what if you could get the best of both worlds? The top quality physicians providing excellent care in the home set...

As a certified Alzheimer's disease specialist and expert in contested files with a masters in social work, Stephanie has had significant experience in the types of situations that can occur when people haven’t prepared for getting old.  These situations might include everything from self-serving relatives attempting to wheedle funds by invoking healthcare proxy and power of attorney documents to f...

Having worked in biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing for the last decade, Andrew is no stranger to the type of studies that have been employed to test the recent surge of COVID-19 vaccines. After deciding to volunteer in one of these studies, Andrew filled out a survey expressing his interest and was contacted a few months later by a representative from AstraZeneca.  On the day of his a...

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Research shows that talking is crucial to brain development, mental health, and well-being. Talking has been shown to feed and enhance the working, short term memory, which is the first type to decline in Seniors. Improvement of the working memory will, in turn, feed the long-term memory and overall health. Phone buddies are trained, empathic, passionate volunteers of all ages who are connected to...

Alok Mahadevia, who goes by Loki, discovered laughter yoga in 2012 after feeling extremely lonely upon moving to the United States from India. His subsequent experience led him to discover how beneficial this practice was for seniors, those coping with chronic problems or terminal illness, and anyone else simply feeling isolated. Founded in the late 90’s by Madan Kataria, laughter yoga incorporate...

Susan Ryan, senior director of the Green House project, delves into the negative stigma that faces seniors.  With 40+ years of experience in the senior care field, Ryan has witnessed first hand the problems of both nursing homes and home care.    With decreased independence,  institutional living environments, coupled with a culture of ageist beliefs, elderly residents often feel disempowered and...

Freda Mowad is the CEO of Quality Rehab Management, QRM, and as a speech and language pathologist who has worked in the rehab industry for 20+ years,  has a lot of experience to bring to the table. Despite its importance, rehab predominantly stands apart from the rest of a nursing facility and often administrators don’t completely understand its complexities.  For this reason, facilities often out...

LinkedIn isn’t just another social media platform. When done correctly, it can potentially provide a staggering number of views and engagement every week as well as a space equipped for all sorts of transactions.  LinkedIn has great potential to help the senior care industry by amplifying innovations geared towards the 60+ market and connecting such startups with Venture Capital Firms. Despite the...

Tony Braswell is a veteran in this space and has been in the Nursing Home staffing industry for 29 years.  Most of that time was spent on the excruciatingly slow task of calling up nurses one at a time trying to get them to come to work. This tedious process needed to be faster.  Much faster. A brainwave hit Braswell one day when his son purchased just a single bottle of ketchup from Amazon. He re...

In today’s episode we meet Eric Harter, president of Rapid CPAP, who goes into detail on how to correct and prevent breathing and respiratory problems in short-term patients.  It is a frustrating reality that many patients referred to Nursing Homes from hospitals will often suffer these issues in the very first days of adjustment. This may be the result of details about additional health constrain...

The case managers in the hospitals need to know what level of care is available in the community that will be appropriate for the patient they are trying to discharge.   A nursing home is not always the best solution for a hospital discharge. There can be other community-based options that are better for the patient.  It's like Expedia for travel. Before Expedia, you'd have to make dozens of calls...

In this episode, we meet the founder and CEO of Oasis Day Center, Israel Lavrinoff.  Israel is a young and energetic entrepreneur who's clearly identified his passion.  Let's stop waiting for our seniors to die! Let's give them the qualify of life they deserve for as long as possible.  After all we are all going to die someday, so let's live life to the fullest.  Israel best describes the role of...