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every 13 days
Average audio length:
34 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
28 episodes
since Jan. 27, 2026
episodic

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Family and professional caregivers are already asking AI about medications, lab results and diagnoses. The harder question is when to trust the answer. In this episode of AI-Powered Caregiving, Zemplee founder and CEO Aparna Pujar talks with Dr. Irina Koyfman, a doctor of nursing practice, dementia…

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Zemplee CEO Aparna Pujar talks about the study behind two 2026 McKnight's Tech Awards golds: A "Nursing home without walls" concept that helped older adults in rural Kansas stay safely at home, and cut skilled nursing bed days by 50%. Zemplee's tech is a peek into a future where senior ca…
Most advice about what to look for in dementia care comes from clinicians or from families. Khatera Bahadory has been both. She arrived from Kabul at ten, worked as a caregiver while putting herself through nursing school, and now directs Astoria Park Senior Living in Pasadena, California. Then her…
Every 11 seconds, an older American goes to the emergency room because of a fall. In rural America, the problem is even bigger. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural communities, but only 1 in 10 doctors practice there. Hospitals are closing. Pharmacies are disappearing. And the number of caregiver…
Jackie Hess spent 15 years in elder care and hospice before founding Stay Home Solutions, a Michigan-based service pairing certified home safety inspections with AI-powered passive remote monitoring. In this conversation, Jackie and Aparna dig into why families resist wearable fall pendants, how pa…
Every hospital leader claims AI is transforming care. But how do you tell what's actually working from what's just hype? Joe Avelino is CEO of College Medical Center, a behavioral health and acute care hospital in Long Beach, California, with a dedicated geriatric psychiatric program for older adu…
Private equity and chain ownership have reshaped much of the nursing home industry over the last decade — but Maplewood Sauk Prairie has stayed locally owned since 1971. In this episode, administrator Carol Wilkes joins Zemplee CEO Aparna Pujar to talk about what independent ownership actually mean…
Family caregivers in America provided nearly 50 billion hours of unpaid care in 2024, worth over a trillion dollars if paid at market rates, exceeding annual Medicaid spending. In this episode, Rita Choula, Senior Director of Caregiving at AARP's Public Policy Institute, shares her personal caregiv…
Medication mistakes are the leading cause of hospitalization among older adults — and in rural communities, there's often no one nearby to catch them. In this episode, Ishanya sits down with Lisa Lavin, founder and CEO of Ōmcare, whose Ōmcare Home Health Hub combines autonomous medication dispensin…
Nobody's saying the quiet part loud: AI won't fix healthcare if we just use it to do the same things faster. The real opportunity — and the real risk — is whether mission-driven organizations get ahead of it or get left behind.  In this episode, Ishanya is joined by Ramon Llamas, strategist, operat…
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