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With Arizona breaking records with a 19 day streak of temperatures reaching above 110 degrees, and with temperatures persisting well above 100 degrees throughout much of Texas, Florida and Southern California, it is safe to say this summer has been a scorcher.  In these sweltering…

Make a House a Home The front gate was creaking a little, but then again it had always been like that. His wife had asked him to fix it a thousand times, but now he would give anything to hear her nag about it one…

A Tale of Two Grandmas: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. This is not a tale of two cities however, it is a tale of two grandmothers. I am sure that any other millennials out there reading this blog…

In the 2020 Netflix movie, “The Social Dilemma”, a former Google ethicist compares social media to a slot machine. Perhaps some of the irony is lost on Netflix that have built their business off of marathon binge watchers. While much has been said in recent…

Tides of a Pandemic: The Covid-19 pandemic brought many global and national health issues to the forefront of public and political discourse. We found ourselves learning new jargon from the worlds of epidemiology, and had to familiarize ourselves with what is the sturdiest brand of…

The journey of an ER nurse who decided to scale her impact through technology The Beginning... Try to imagine a job as far from a regular 9-5 as you can. I’m sure some of you thought of soldiers or spies, but I bet at least…

We spent an entire afternoon on a single agenda in a recent client meeting:  the labor shortage in-home care. That was the same topic last week, the previous week, and the week before that. Senior care agency owners are turning down business on a weekly…

Women and Caregiving One simply has to google “caregiver” and scroll through the images to understand one very obvious fact: caregiving is a woman’s profession. If we want to dive into the numbers, 75% of family, or informal caregivers, are female, and 89% of paid…

Strength in Solidarity   For the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, 7pm in NYC brought about a first petering, slowly building, and finally thunderous wave of applause. The famously grouchy New Yorkers cracked open their windows, stepped onto their balconies, and joined together…

Do you ever sit and wonder, where has the time gone, boy am I getting old. Chances are, if you are sitting in a developed country, that you share this feeling with anywhere from a fifth to a third of your country’s population. The world’s…