During ALS Awareness Month, we interviewed Leah Stavenhagen who founded Her ALS Story. Hello, SimpliHere community members! It’s ALS Awareness Month, and although we’re dedicated to raising awareness of ALS and other diseases all year long, we thought this month-long awareness event is a great excuse to profile one of our favorite ALS warriors, Leah […]
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5 Ways for Caregivers to Thrive in Winter
Advice For Caregivers To Get Through the Season Winter can be a challenging season, even for those of us who love cold temperatures, snow sports, and bundling up. For people living with chronic health conditions (such as ALS, Stroke, and other mobility-impacting diseases) and their caregivers, winter can pose many more challenges — difficult weather […]
A Day in the Life of an Assistive Care Professional
Assistive Care Is Ever-Changing At SimpliHere, we recognize and understand the central role professional caregivers play in the care of people living with ALS and their families. This month on the blog, we’re highlighting one such assistive care professional —Olivia Winkler, Director at BAYADA Home Health Care in Tucson, AZ. We connected with Olivia to […]
Go On, Be Brave. An ALS diagnosis and a woman’s race against time.
At SimpliHere, we wanted to share some inspiration today… A new film, “Go On, Be Brave,” is about Andrea Lytle Peet’s race against time. After her ALS diagnosis, Peet, a lifelong athlete and triathlete, decided to attempt the impossible — she set a goal to become the first person with ALS to compete a marathon […]
How To Navigate Increased Demand: Caregivers and the State of Home Health Care in 2022
November is National Caregivers Month. To honor the incredible people who dedicate their careers and lives to caring for others, SimpliHere is looking carefully at the current state of caregiving and home health care in the United States in 2022. Here are some things we’ve found. Emerging from the global Covid-19 pandemic, a great deal […]
Celebrate the Return of the 2022 ALS Walk for Living for the Leonard Florence Center!
On September 18, our friends at the Leonard Florence Center for Living in Chelsea, MA are hosting their annual ALS Walk for Living, a community celebration and fundraising event that takes place on Admiral’s Hill in Chelsea. The walk covers a two-mile course that is accessible to participants with wheelchairs and assistive devices, and that […]
Pick your favorite baseball team for Lou Gehrig Day 2022!
June 2, 2022 marks the second annual Lou Gehrig Day to honor the baseball legend and continue to spread awareness of ALS.
ALS Awareness Month Features Fight ALS Film Fest!
Across the United States, there are many engaging events and campaigns happening throughout the month of May, ALS Awareness Month. The one SimpliHere is most excited about is the virtual Fight ALS Film Festival. The month-long film fest, which is free and open to the public, was founded by Sunny Brous, who was diagnosed […]
Calling all Testers!! SimpliHere is seeking volunteers for mobile app testing for next product version
SimpliHere is currently seeking volunteers for mobile app testing for a new, improved version of our product! To test our user experience and design, we are looking to recruit several ALS community participants for 45-minute one-on-one sessions online throughout the month of April. These usability tests will be hosted by trained user experience designers and […]
Cheat-Sheet: Our Top 7 Digital Augmentative and Alternative Communication Apps for ALS Patients
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the world quickly adopted and adapted to video conferencing, smartphone apps, and other technology advances in order to communicate. To keep pace, there has been an explosion in app, device, and software development and users encounter never-ending updates to commonly used platforms. The virtual working world has moved from surviving to […]
Three ALS Caregiver Resources to be Thankful For
This month, we’re sharing three outstanding ALS caregiver resources – Your ALS Guide, Sarah’s Caregiver Community, and I AM ALS -that we are thankful for and that you need to know about. Your ALS GuideThis practical, easy-to-navigate website and Facebook community was designed for patients, family members, caregivers, and friends to answer questions, connect them […]
ALS family support—a conversation with Hope Loves Company
Of the 30,000 Americans diagnosed with ALS each year, 85% of them have a child or grandchild. Hope Loves Company, founded in 2012, is the only nonprofit in the U.S. dedicated to providing emotional and educational support to children and young adults who have or had a loved one battling ALS. Founder Jodi O’Donnell-Ames lost her first husband to […]
