Dave, The Caregiver's Caregiver

Join Dave Nassaney, The Caregiver's Caregiver, and his lovely guest co-host,Stephanie Erickson, as they interview Dr Aaron Blight discussing incontenance and all the issues associated with it.

ELLEN LONG STILWELL IS a registered nurse certified in hospice and palliative care. While raising two boys, SHE volunteered as part of the hospice team with Metropolitan Jewish Health System. SHE worked for several years for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, where SHE cared for hospice patients and families in their homes. Also nursing homes, NYU Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital hospice patients. As well as working with Calvary as a Liaison at Weill Cornell, transitioning patients and families from the acute care setting into hospice care. She is currently working with patients and families at home, the heart of hospice. Ellen is also trained as a death doula by a Buddhist Monk. & currently lives in Manhattan.

Rachel Engstrom M.S.W., C.H.E.S has written a groundbreaking memoir/self-book on her experience as a young cancer wife then widow. With the increasing number of young women and men becoming widows/widowers due to not only cancer and serious illnesses, but also now Covid 19, this resource is needed more now than ever. Rachel shares her journey in a raw and honest way, while providing step by step resources to help you navigate your own journey. Never before has there been a combination of the personal grit of the healthcare journey, along with steps on how to navigate treatment, diagnosis, the ins and outs of hospital life, employment, finances, insurance, self care, grief and loss and much more. You can find “Wife, Widow, Now What? How I Navigated the Cancer World and How You Can Too.”

Angel Cellucci likes to refer to herself as a Speaker … Teacher … Guide & Friend. She has worked in the healthcare system her entire life, having started out as a Candy Striper at the age of 13 and working her way up to become a Registered Nurse, and ultimately a Family Nurse Practitioner. In 2014 she began her “nurse-preneurial” journey and founded the medical fraud investigation company - Overbrook Consultants. Her goal is to leverage her nursing and medical experience, along with her fraud investigation skills, to inspire & empower everyone to become better “consumers” of health care so they can ensure they are receiving medically necessary treatment at fair and reasonable prices. She has created a proprietary framework called the DOVE (Document, Organize, Verify, Engage) framework. By incorporating this framework, not only will you be more in control of your medical expenditures, but you will have financial peace of mind knowing that you are keeping your hard-earned money where it belongs … in YOU

Cindy Watson is the founder of Women On Purpose and creator of the Art of Feminine Negotiation programs. She’s also founder and managing partner of Watson Labour Lawyers, as an attorney specializing in social justice law for 30 years. She is an international speaker, award-winning author, master negotiator and consultant, known for her passion, commitment and ability to inspire. As a world-class women’s empowerment coach, Cindy has a proven track record empowering, advocating, and motivating people to rediscover their purpose and become the best version of themselves. Cindy believes all of life is a negotiation and she’s dedicated to help leverage your innate powers of persuasion to get what you want and deserve from the boardroom to the bedroom.

One of the most important and “neglected” things in the early stages of a cancer diagnosis is the Living Will.When someone is diagnosed with cancer, their chances of dying before their spouse rise up tremendously.(Not all cancers though). A living will is a legal document that stipulates the medical wishes of someone when they are no longer able to state their wishes themselves. For example, whether they would like a feeding tube inserted; whether they would like to be put on a mechanical ventilator when they can no longer breath on their own, whether they would like intravenous nutrition etc. The absence of this document can put a huge strain on the family because many times family members don’t agree on what to do; causing rifts in families that may never heal

Join me, Caregiver Dave, and my co-host, Adrienne Gruberg, as we interview Kayla Shore, Gemma Calinda, Lian Hurst Mann & Carmen Murphy tell us how they are creating a care system that works for all of us.

Join Dave Nassaney as he interviews Daniel West, PT, share his stories of success with his better than average results in getting patients up and walking again sooner.

Hear about some Powerful Tools for Caregivers, and how to Deal with Dementia, as well as how Aysha also provided alternative care plans to hundreds of caregivers and families. Due to the Covid-19 Crisis, she transitioned the adult day facility to a caregiver resource center, continuing to provide seniors and caregivers with care --- just in a different way.

Join Dave Nassaney, the Caregiver's Caregiver and his lovely co-host, Adrienne Gruberg, founder of the Caregiver Space, as they interview MJ Vogel, MJ is a high performance coach with a focus on habit execution for transformation.

Pete is an educator. He uses books, magazine articles and columns, blogs, and seminars and college lectures to explain cortical plasticity. He is the author of the book Stronger After Stroke (now in its 3rd ed.) and has co-authored dozens of journal articles as well as many articles in magazines, websites and blogs. He also conducts seminars throughout the US covering brain plasticity as it relates to brain pathologies.

Karen Warner Schueler became a sudden caregiver when her late husband, Joel Kurtzman, was diagnosed out of the blue with Stage IV cancer. In her book, The Sudden Caregiver, A Roadmap for Resilient Caregiving, she draws upon her own experience, the experience of other caregivers, and research from the field of Positive Psychology to offer the informal, unpaid, sudden, caregiver, a roadmap, a path to resilience, and a rational approach to planning what is, essentially, unplannable. As an executive coach and President of her coaching firm, Tangible Group, she designs and delivers premiere leadership experiences for individuals, teams, and multinational corporations. She received her Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Beaufort, South Carolina with her husband, John; and Fenway, the world’s most empathetic dog. She is currently launching a series of learning modules for caregiver resilience. The Sudden Caregiver is her first book.

Dr. Michael Craig Glenn, is a Registered Respiratory Therapist graduated March, 1985 from Northwestern Medical School’s Advanced Standing Program. First hospital-based Chiropractic practice in Dallas/Ft. Worth region. 1989. Team Doctor for the Clarksville Fox Female Professional football team, Opened Chiropractic Clinic at Fort Campbell, KY, 2003 Treated Elite Military Units, Treated Elite Amateur Athletes (some were National Champions). Tech Fort Worth’s Impact Your World Award.

Jodi’s late husband, Kevin O’Donnell was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 30, and he tragically succumbed to the illness at the age of 36. Throughout the course of Kevin’s illness, Jodi became intimately aware of the impact of ALS on the patient and on the family. Critically, in witnessing her young daughter having to take on a role as caregiver alongside her, she realized the gap in resources and community available for children who similarly realize the role of caregiver for family members with ALS. From her experience and her desire to help children and family members impacted by ALS, she founded Hope Loves Company, the only non-profit in the U.S. with the mission of providing educational and emotional support to children and young adults who had or have a loved one battling ALS. Jodi started Hope Loves Company from her home, and it has since grown into a national organization that has helped thousands of children and families whose lives have been affected by ALS.

When Kate Kunkel’s mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2010, Kate set out to discover why this happened, how she could help her mother, and ensure that she herself would not succumb to this terrible syndrome. What she learned  inspired her to embark on what she considers the most important mission of her life – to make dementia and Alzheimer’s rare diseases, and to empower people to take control of their own health and future. Through coaching and speaking, and now in her book, "Don't Let the Memories Fade", Kate mentors others to better health to improve their health, sharpen, their cognitive abilities and protect their brains from the ravages of dementia.

Pantea Vahidi is an educator, researcher, nurse, and a Compassion and Resilience Advisor. Above all Pantea identifies as a lifelong caregiver and she has expanded her nursing practice to care for the world and spread compassion and resilience in all entities around the globe.  Drawing from her patient care experience as a medical/surgical/cardiac/hospice nurse and her design experience as an engineer, she has integrated the science and art of caring to develop powerful educational and training programs on Compassion and Resilience . Vahidi’s courses provide practical skills to use daily. Vahidi studies the science of compassion and is a member of the Compassion and Empathy Research team at UCSD. Vahidi has trained nurses, physicians, medical students and leaders at hospitals and universities across the nation.  She holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Nursing. She was raised in a family that values helping others and recalls growing up with Rumi being recited that "Compassion transforms thorn

Join Dave Nassaney, the Caregiver's Caregiver, as he interviews Jenn Taylor, mom of 18, and a Caregiver on the Caregiver Dave Show.

YOU’VE SEEN Dr Marc Siegel ALL OVER MEDIA THIS PAST YEAR. HE IS ONE OF THE GREAT AUTHORITIES ON COVID-19, a physician, the Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, an author of multiple books, and a contributor to Fox News Network. I met Dr Siegel at an essential medical conference in Atlanta a few months ago. We had a chance to chat, I showed him my book, It’s My Life Too, Thrive & Stay Alive as a Caregiver. He thumbed through it, and said, “Wow you wrote this? You should come on my show” I said, “I will, and you should come on my show.” He said, “I will” and here he is.

YOU’VE SEEN Dr Marc Siegel ALL OVER MEDIA THIS PAST YEAR. HE IS ONE OF THE GREAT AUTHORITIES ON COVID-19, a physician, the Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, an author of multiple books, and a contributor to Fox News Network. I met Dr Siegel at an essential medical conference in Atlanta a few months ago. We had a chance to chat, I showed him my book, It’s My Life Too, Thrive & Stay Alive as a Caregiver. He thumbed through it, and said, “Wow you wrote this? You should come on my show” I said, “I will, and you should come on my show.” He said, “I will” and here he is.

Dr Bernie Siegel is an American writer and retired pediatric surgeon, who writes on the relationship between the patient and the healing process. He is known for his best-selling book Love, Medicine and Miracles. Join Dave Nassaney and Adrienne Gruberg as they talk about the issues of Family Caregivers with Dr Siegel