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From the Award-Winning Podcast & YouTube Show, All Home Care Matters
The Caregiver's Journal
We have days that become milestones: The day we start our first job, we marry, we welcome children into our lives.
When we care for a family member, we also experience days of significance: The day our family member receives a diagnosis, the day we realize we need help, the first night we spend with our caree in the Emergency Room, the day our caree starts hospice care and all the days in between.
On these caregiving days, we can feel alone as we feel our world shift.
To help lessen the loneliness of these days, Lance A. Slatton, co-host of The Caregiver’s Journal, and Christina Keys of Keys for Caregiving, invite family caregivers to join them to share the stories of their significant days.
The Caregiver's Journal shines a spotlight on the stories of family caregivers from around the world. The show also builds connections within the caregiving community, provides family caregivers a platform to share their valuable experiences and reduces the sense of isolation often experienced during a caregiving journey.
You can tune in to The Caregiver's Journal on AllHomeCareMatters.com, YouTube, and various streaming platforms.
The Caregiver's Journal Episodes
October 9, 2025
Chapter 16 "Family Caregiver"
The Caregiver's Journal is the show where we are sharing the caregiving experiences, stories, and wisdom of family caregivers. In this journal entry, we welcomed Madeline Bastida to discuss "Family Caregiver".
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Lance A. Slatton, All Home Care Matters
Lance A. Slatton, CSCM, known as “The Senior Care Influencer,” is a healthcare professional, author, media host, and senior care advocate with more than 20 years of industry experience. He is Senior Case Manager and Co-Founder of Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, Michigan; Host, Founder, and Executive Producer of the award-winning All Home Care Matters podcast and YouTube channel; and President and Owner of AlzAuthors.
Through All Home Care Matters, Lance has helped build a nationally recognized platform with more than 500 episodes, over 112,000 YouTube subscribers, and more than 26 million lifetime views. He is the author of the award-winning book The All Home Care Matters Official Family Caregivers Guide and contributes to McKnight’s Home Care, DailyCaring, and AgeBuzz. Lance has been recognized as a leading healthcare and senior care influencer and has served as a juror for the Academy of Interactive Visual Arts and the Davey Awards. His work is dedicated to elevating caregiver voices, expanding access to trusted resources, and improving how families understand and navigate long-term care.
Christina Keys, Family Caregiving Advocate, Speaker, Founder of Keys for Caregiving
Christina Keys was living the American dream, a successful career, financial stability, travel, health, and happiness until March 16, 2013, when everything changed. Her mother suffered a life-altering stroke and was given a 1% chance of survival. Overnight, Christina transitioned from career woman to full-time caregiver.
Within three years, Christina found herself financially, emotionally, mentally, and physically bankrupt. Doctors warned she might not survive another six months if she continued at the same pace. Faced with an impossible choice, she decided not just to survive, but to transform her life while caring for her mother — and to help other caregivers do the same.
Christina is the creator of the Caregiver Recovery program, offering workshops, webinars, speaking engagements, and support groups to address life after caregiving ends — a critical but often overlooked transition.
From 2013 to 2022, Christina cared for her mother until her passing. She now speaks nationally on topics such as Family Caregiving, Caregiver Recovery, Caring For a Former Abuser, Building Caregiver Communities, and Advocating for Systemic Change for Family Caregivers.
About ELHCS / All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services (ELHCS) in Livonia has been named the No. 1 home care company in Michigan the last two years by Top Rated Local. ELHCS provides care for people throughout southeastern Michigan. In May 2020, ELHCS launched All Home Care Matters, a YouTube program focused on long-term care issues. The show, hosted by Lance A. Slatton CSCM, has more than 122,000 YouTube subscribers and 65,000 daily podcast downloads. The show also was a 2023 29th annual AIVA Communicator Award Recipient (Academy of Interactive Visual Arts).
Visit the official YouTube channel at or listen to the show on Apple Podcast and their Official Website.
About Keys for Caregiving
Christina turned her personal struggle into a powerful mission: to ensure family caregivers everywhere feel seen, heard, valued, appreciated, and never alone. She founded and led an award-winning nonprofit supporting family caregivers, served as Director of Community Growth for a national caregiving organization (building a team of nearly 150 caregiving champions across the U.S.), and today is the Founder and CEO of Keys for Caregiving.
Christina's message is simple but profound: Caregivers deserve care, too — and there is life after Caregiving.
Christina has been featured on NBC, ABC, Netflix, Scripps Documentary and well as in The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today and many other publications. She has been a guest on many healthcare, caregiving, hospice, grief, and entrepreneurial podcast shows. Find out more at www.christinakeys.com or https://www.youtube.com/@KeysForCaregiving-Community
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