The Advocacy

Advocacy

My advocacy begins with a simple conviction: seniors and their families deserve better health and care delivery, especially those who are underserved, overwhelmed, or left without clear guidance at the moment they need it most.

My mission is to help improve senior health and care by working across several levels, from families seeking compassionate, affordable care for a loved one, to broader conversations about how healthcare and senior care systems can become more humane, accessible, effective, accountable, and patient-centered.

A central part of this work involves helping families explore care options in Mexico that may offer a better balance of quality, dignity, affordability, and personal attention than they can often find elsewhere. For many families, the search for care is not only emotional; it is financially and logistically exhausting. My goal is to help them understand what is possible, ask better questions, evaluate care more clearly, and make decisions with greater confidence.

My advocacy also includes public education. I write and speak about the senior health and care topics that shape everyday life: lifestyle and diet, caregiving, dementia, memory care, assisted living, hospice, medical advances, healthcare delivery, and the myths or misunderstandings that often distort health decisions. I believe families deserve information that is clear, honest, practical, and grounded in both research and lived experience.

I also work to raise awareness and accountability around the failures of our healthcare system. Too often, seniors and families find themselves trapped inside systems that are confusing, expensive, fragmented, reactive, and poorly aligned with the real needs of patients. Part of my advocacy is to name those failures clearly, challenge complacency, and contribute to a broader demand for change.

But criticism alone is not enough. I am also committed to advocating for powerful, practical, and cost-effective solutions that can make care delivery more responsive to the unique needs, values, and desires of older adults. Better senior care is not only a moral necessity; it is also a design challenge, a policy challenge, a business challenge, and a human challenge.

At its heart, this work is about dignity. It is about helping older adults receive care that honors their humanity, helping families feel less alone, and encouraging a healthcare culture that places people before systems, billing codes, and institutional convenience.

Cielito Lindo Senior Living website

Helping Families Explore Care in San Miguel de Allende

A significant part of my advocacy work is helping families explore living and care options at Rancho Los Labradores and Cielito Lindo Senior Living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
For many families, the search for senior care begins in a place of worry, uncertainty, and emotional exhaustion. They may be trying to support a parent with dementia, find a safer assisted living environment, reduce the crushing cost of care, or imagine a better quality of life for someone they love. My role is to help them understand what is possible, ask the right questions, and evaluate care with both practical clarity and emotional sensitivity.
At Rancho Los Labradores and Cielito Lindo, families can explore a broad continuum of living and care options, from fully independent living in private villas to assisted living, memory care, supportive services, and end-of-life hospice care. This range allows families to consider not only what is needed today, but what may be needed as circumstances change.
Over the years, I have helped more than 70 families choose Cielito Lindo for a loved one, most often for memory care or assisted living. I have also supported hundreds more as they considered whether our community, care model, location, and cost structure were the right fit for their family. That work is never simply about explaining services or pricing. It is about listening carefully, understanding the person behind the care need, and helping families make one of the most consequential decisions of their lives with greater confidence and peace of mind.
This work reflects one of my deepest beliefs: high-quality care should not be available only to those with unlimited resources. Families deserve options that are compassionate, dignified, personal, and financially sustainable. For many, San Miguel de Allende offers a rare combination of beauty, culture, affordability, and attentive care, creating the possibility of a safer and more humane chapter of life for seniors and the people who love them.
Learn more about Rancho Losd Labradores and Cielito Lindo Senior Living here.

Public Speaking

Public speaking is another important way I express my advocacy. It allows me to bring the same mission into a more immediate and personal setting, offering audiences not only information, but comfort, insight, perspective, and a call toward meaningful change.

Through keynotes, presentations, interviews, panels, and community conversations, I speak about caregiving, dementia, senior health, healthcare delivery, grief, resilience, family decision-making, and the dignity of aging. My goal is to meet people where they are, whether they are caregivers seeking reassurance, families facing difficult choices, professionals working in senior care, or communities trying to imagine better systems of care.

At its best, speaking becomes more than communication. It becomes a way to help people feel seen, to make complex issues more understandable, and to invite deeper compassion, clearer thinking, and more humane action.

Watch the presentation on YouTube by clicking here.

Wally

Podcast Projects

I am currently developing several podcast projects as part of my broader advocacy work.

The first, Both Sides of the Coin, is a deeply personal and honest conversation series with my dear friend Wally, who is living with dementia. Together, we explore dementia-related topics from two similar but distinct perspectives: his lived experience as a person diagnosed with dementia, and mine as a caregiver who has walked beside someone through the long realities of the disease.

The purpose of the series is to create space for both voices. Dementia is often discussed clinically, or from the outside looking in. Both Sides of the Coin is intended to bring the conversation closer to the human center, where fear, adaptation, grief, humor, frustration, courage, and tenderness all coexist. By placing the person living with dementia and the caregiver in conversation, the series offers a fuller, more compassionate view of what dementia asks of everyone it touches.

I am also developing a podcast to share and explore my prototype AI Advocate, a concept focused on how ethically designed artificial intelligence could help seniors and families prepare for appointments, understand care options, organize medical information, ask better questions, and feel more supported through complex healthcare and caregiving decisions.

Together, these projects reflect the same larger mission: to use every available communication channel, writing, music, public speaking, conversation, and emerging technology, to bring comfort, insight, practical guidance, and meaningful change to the world of senior health and care.

Lastly, I am working with other podcasters on some new topics and episodes.