Episode 2

How Stanford’s Project Formula scales caregiver support from community agencies

The caregiving crisis impacting one-third of our US population is a multi-faceted challenge that requires simultaneous tackling by all affected stakeholders - including employers, non-profit agencies, academia, healthcare entities, government, individuals, and companies with innovative products and services to support caregivers (and care receivers).

In Episode Two of Caregiver Camp Podcast, Stanford University Consultant and Affiliate Scholar Venus Wong explains how Stanford’s Project Formula helps community caregiver support agencies scale their services, which companies can ultimately tap into as part of building out their employee support programs. This creates a huge win-win for companies as well as for working caregiver employees.

In this episode you will hear:

  • The strategies used by the Project Formula pilot incubator program to help community agencies scale and grow stronger
  • Why collaborative innovation is the key to scaling high quality caregiver support
  • How companies can benefit from having strong community agencies

About Venus:

Venus is a licensed psychologist with deep experience in developing human-centered tech-enabled care solutions (e.g. application, augmented reality). Her work is at the intersection of psychology, value-based care and technology, and is largely driven by her own caregiving family’s experiences with dementia. It centers around one question: How can everyone access the care they need at an affordable cost?

Connect with Venus:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venus-wong-199b8994/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/project-formula/ 

Connect with Debbie:

Debbie Howard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbiehoward/

Website: https://caregivercamps.com/

Email: debbie@caregivercamps.com

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Tanya Krim

Tanya Krim is a long-distance caregiver for her parents who live in England. So she knows first-hand the emotional landscape and challenges of juggling work, life and caregiving. She chose to augment her 20-year career as a qualitative market researcher by obtaining her M.S. in Gerontology.

In the process, storytelling has become her passion as she believes that storytelling can offer multiple benefits to care recipients as well as their caregivers.

She is now applying her background to crafting meaningful, emotive, insight-rich Legacy Stories/Histories and spearheading storytelling training to help working caregivers as well as their care recipients reminisce, relive, revive and 'reset'.
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Debbie Howard

Debbie Howard is a former caregiver who served as both long-distance and live-in caregiver during her mom’s dying days in South Carolina, while running her Tokyo-based market research consultancy.
With the launch in 2016 of AMI (Aging Matters International) and TheCaregivingJourney.com, Debbie combined her caregiving experience with her 40 years in market research and communications to support companies and working caregivers in navigating their caregiving journeys with more ease and grace. https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbiehoward/?originalSubdomain=jp
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Jonathan Brody

Jon Brody helped his mom age in place and live independently to the ripe old age of 93.
With over 30 years of marketing experience in the healthcare industry on both the client and agency sides, he has a deep knowledge of corporate needs including global strategy, market research & analytics.
He has bolstered this with his acquisition of an M.S in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts. He is also a proud member of the Gerontological Society of America, American Society on Aging, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.