Celebrating National Family Caregivers Month with Fritzi Gros-Daillon From Age Safe America
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- November 18th 2020
The Popular Healing Ties podcast is celebrating National Family Caregivers with 30 episodes in 30 days and was delighted to welcome Aging In Place specialist Fritzi Gros-Daillon from Age Safe America for a recent episode! Get to know Fritzi and the great work being accomplished at Age Safe American and be on the lookout for new episodes of Age Safe Life Well in early 2021!
Working with Age Safe America, Frtizi developed the Senior Home Safety Specialist certification and co-created an online Family Caregiver Essentials program. Her Master’s in Business from Columbia University, combined with CAPS and UDCP, gives her the experience, perspective and expertise to work with multi-discipline professionals and clients of all ages.
Fritzi is a successful entrepreneur in Senior Move Management, Environmental Consulting and Aging in Place Home Safety and Modification. Named Educator of the Year by NAHB for 2019, she teaches aging in place and universal design courses.
Listen in and learn how Fritzi and the entire staff at Age Safe America are creating Healing Ties all around us!
Age Safe® Live Well
Approximately one-third of adults age 65 years or older fall in their home each year, resulting in injury, long-term disability and premature institutionalization. Age Safe America was created in an effort to help reduce and prevent falls and their associated costs by promoting the necessity of making preparations NOW to ensure ongoing freedom and independence for all.
Fritzi is a highly successful entrepreneur in environmental consulting, senior move management and most recently, the aging in place home safety field. As a Senior Move Manager for 10 years, Fritzi worked with over 1000 families in New York while being a long-distance caregiver for her parents in California. In 2013 Fritzi founded Household Guardians, Inc. as an aging in place consulting firm. Her passion for keeping family members safe in their own homes for as long as possible grew from years of watching families struggle to make hard decisions. Her education, licenses and certifications combined with thirty years of business experience bring a combination of expertise and perspective to Age Safe America.
Fritzi provides strategic and operational oversight to ASA’s advocacy, communications and public relations efforts. Fritzi leads ASA’s training and education programs ensuring up-to-date industry knowledge to enhance the value of ASA membership. Her book, “Grace and Grit: Insights to Real Life Challenges of Aging for Adult Children and their Parents”, has won three national awards since publication in 2014.
Affectionately known as “The Bow Tie Guy" in the vast network of family caregivers, Christopher MacLellan is the Author of "What's The Deal with Caregiving" and the founder of The Whole Care Network.
Chris' masters degree thesis, Caregiving, Stress and its Impact on the Work Place was accepted by the faculty at Gonzaga University in 2016 where he earned a masters degree in Leadership and Communication.
Chris is the host of Healing Ties podcast, co host of How We Got Here Podcast presents regularly on topics that impact family Caregivers and now is Aging Gayfully after caregiving has ended.