Season 2

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"Tech Talks in CMMS"
Season 2 Podcast!

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Welcome to TechTalks in CMMS: Season 2

Season 2 of Tech Talks in CMMS maps the future of long-term care, focusing on a critical shift toward advanced technology, innovative staffing solutions, and stringent compliance.

The core of the season highlights the dramatic integration of technology to enhance resident experience and operational efficiency. Experts showcase AI-driven systems for proactive health monitoring and even the future implementation of "helping robots" for fundamental tasks in senior homes. Simultaneously, the podcast tackles the staffing crisis, stressing the critical need to inspire new talent (Lolo Chiweshe) and providing insight into the challenging world of care administration and compliance (Katelyn Burns). Essential facility management topics, such as regulatory mandates (Odelia Callery) and energy-saving solutions (Neal Horne), are also covered, making this season a concentrated source of knowledge for navigating the dynamic senior care landscape.

  • Tech Talks in CMMS
  • 7 min
  • S02E28

Marie-Anne Bazerghi

Eugeria’s Marie-Anne Bazerghi discusses non-pharmaceutical dementia care (projectors, hydroponics). Innovations manage behaviors, ease staff, ensuring positive global outcomes.
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  • 4 min
  • S02E27

Lolo Chiweshe

Lolo Chiweshe, a PSW and education champion, uses her past mental health journey to empathize with the elderly. Lolo stresses the critical need to inspire high school students toward a healthcare career as a crucial first step.
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  • 5 min
  • S02E26

Jean Bonnet

Jean Bonnet, a former senior claims analyst, shares with Dan about his transition to a Personal Support Worker (PSW) career.
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  • 6 min
  • S02E25

Dino Roberge

Maintenance Care's Dino Roberge discusses the significant growth and evolution of their company over the past four years.

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  • 6 min
  • S02E24

Jolanta Linde

Executive Director Jolanta Linde discusses her unique career path to long-term care home leadership, highlighting growth and adaptability as keys to success.
  • 188K
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  • 5 min
  • S02E23

Mike Dier

Sherwood Park Manor offers a unique, seven-day-a-week physiotherapy program for all residents, proactively integrating exercise into their daily care. Led by Mike Dier, this innovative approach reduces falls, improves balance and mobility, and promotes overall health.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E22

Sasha Johnston

Sasha Johnston is a master coach for Age Inc., where her primary role is to coach other coaches who deliver the Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA) and Dementia Care program.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E21

Melissa Johnston

Melissa Johnston, from Clinton, Ontario, discusses communication challenges with maintenance, and the differences between long-term care and hospital emergency nursing.
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  • 4 min
  • SS02E20

Odelia Callery

Dan speaks with Odelia Callery, who provides information about evolving long term care sector regulations, noting that new requirements mandate a social or healthcare background for certain care home administrative positions.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E19

Tara Morelli

Dan speaks with Tara Morelli, who is a familiar face, having spoken at the event for the past two years. Since starting her role in 2020, she's seen significant shifts in long-term care, noting that managing various departments and constant communication are her biggest challenges.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E18

Katelyn Burns

Dan speaks with Katelyn Burns, the acting administrator of Shalom Village in Hamilton, about the significant stress of ensuring compliance across all departments.
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  • 4 min
  • S02E17

Phil Boone

Dan Roberge and Phil Boone discuss Phil's three-year tenure at Maintenance Care, where he's become a product specialist, completing over 500 demos and mentoring new staff on training and strategy.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E16

Kinsey Lehigh

Kinsey Lehigh, an RPN with Stay at Home Nursing, provides in-home care, AI programs, and lidar machines to help individuals stay in their homes longer.
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  • 4 min
  • S02E15

Daniel Beard

Daniel Beard is a representative from Lion Health Care, a staffing agency that provides essential personnel for long-term care and retirement homes across Canada.
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  • 6 min
  • S02E14

Steve Agisnaga

Steve Agisnaga from Evac Chair highlights his company's evacuation chairs and power stair climbers. These essential devices safely evacuate individuals during emergencies, utilizing friction technology.
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  • 3 min
  • S02E13

Tenzin Woser

Tenzin Woser is an Executive Director at REKAI, a long-term care home with two current locations, and a third under construction.
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  • 6 min
  • S02E12

Mark Seidenfeld

BCI Networks is transforming elder care with an AI-driven system that proactively collects resident data, allowing caregivers to anticipate and address health issues. Mark Seidenfeld tells Dan how BCI moves beyond traditional methods, significantly enhancing care quality and efficiency.

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  • 7 min
  • S02E11

Dylan Conley

Dylan Conley explains how Life Loop, a resident engagement and staff operations platform enhances the resident experience for senior living communities through features like family apps, AI-powered bios, and generative AI for tasks such as activity scheduling.

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  • 8 min
  • S02E10

Antoine Karachekhlian

Antoine Karachekhlian talks about VTech, a Hong Kong-based company with three main divisions: contract manufacturing, educational toys (under VTech and LeapFrog brands), and telecom.
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  • 9 min
  • S02E09

Niklas Chandrabalan

Dan was surprised to learn that Niklas Chandrabalan isn't just testing, but soon implementing robotics technology in senior care homes. Niklas elaborated, explaining that these "helping robots" will take on fundamental tasks like food delivery and environmental cleaning.
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  • 7 min
  • S02E08

Edward Robeznieks

Dan interviews Edward Robeznieks on Surge: an integrated compliance platform. He highlights their Ontario recognition, Canada-wide growth, and plans for rural healthcare expansion.
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  • 8 min
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Eric Igbokwe

Dan interviews Eric Igbokwe of Zephyr Staffing Solutions, a digital, AI-driven platform that connects healthcare facilities with qualified nurses and PSWs.
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  • 5 min
  • S02E06

Toby Xu

Toby Xu, a young administrator at Extendicare Scarborough, manages a small maintenance team for the 151-bed senior care home. He enforces a policy requiring non-urgent requests to be logged in "Maintenance Care."  Toby's main challenge is gaining his experienced team's trust and acceptance.

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  • 20 min
  • S02E05

Neil Horne

Dan interviews Neil Horne, of Gold Leaf Energy, about Aqua Magna, their magnetic solution preventing water scale. It extends pipe/boiler life, potentially eliminates salt in water softening, and offers significant ROI and environmental benefits for commercial operations.
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  • 7 min
  • S02E04

Nicole Belanger

Dan interviews Nicole Belanger of Marquis Hospitality, discussing evolving senior care with a focus on technology, baby boomer needs, team communication via DISC assessments and her new "Marquis Moments" podcast.
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  • 23 min
  • S02E03

Maintenance Care Round Table 2

The Maintenance Care implementation team: Michael, Susan, Tracey, Alex, Anne, and Courtney, discuss their customer-centric approach to transforming paper-based operations into efficient digital workflows. They highlight their seamless onboarding, collaborative teamwork, personalized support and building strong client relationships.
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  • 24 min
  • S02E02

Paul Szymanski

Maintenance Care's CEO Dan Roberge and IT Manager Paul Szymanski discuss their focus on continuous product development, rigorous testing, responsive customer support, AWS data security, and flexible licensing.
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  • 23 min
  • S02E01

Neal Horne

Discover energy-saving solutions with Gold Leaf Energy’s Neal Horne. Learn how non-invasive technology reduces costs and emissions in our latest podcast!
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