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Tea, Cake & Existential Anxiety: Notes from a Pop-Up Death Café
An open-space session with Judi Brown turned a Design for Dignity auditorium into a Death Café—and showed why talking about dying is one of the greatest gifts we can offer caregivers.
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From Seekers to Designers of Dignity: Notes on the Futures of Care
From a grounding breath with Dr. Monique Smith to Susannah Fox’s four caregiver archetypes, Design for Dignity traced how dignity can be designed in—letting patients, caregivers, and designers co-create better futures.
Story First, Circuit Deep: Building Care Systems That Listen Before They Speak
Two May 2025 gatherings—the Patient Advocate Foundation Innovation Summit and the National Academies’ empathy‑neurobiology workshop—came to the same conclusion: uninterrupted narrative space plus brain‑based compassion is the scaffolding of future care.
Infrastructure, Investment, and the Invisible Labor of Care
Recent care economy reports offer bold roadmaps—but overlook lived realities, cultural nuance, and the risks of unchecked tech in caregiving.
Holding Space Across Cultures: Reflections on Death, Dying & Caregiving
Chaplain Cody Hufstedler’s guidance on end-of-life presence opened a larger dialogue about how culture, immigration, and community shape the way we say goodbye—insights that fuel GiveCare’s work and our advisory role with A Better Goodbye.
AI, Care, and Community: Insights from Blooming Day 2025
At the second annual Blooming Day conference, healthcare and social care leaders discussed how generative AI can deepen human connections and advance health equity.
AI and Compassionate Care: Insights from Healthcare Leaders
Exploring valuable insights and ethical considerations from healthcare leaders to enhance GiveCare, our AI-powered caregiving assistant for serious illness and end-of-life care.
24/7 Dementia Support: Augmenting CMS GUIDE Access Requirements with GiveCare
GUIDE requires live, round‑the‑clock phone access to trained staff. GiveCare’s AI assistant lightens the load by triaging texts and prepping on‑call teams—without replacing the human touch CMS mandates.
Empathy by Design: Insights from AI Therapy Chatbots for GiveCare
How recent AI therapy chatbot trials reinforce GiveCare’s design principles of empathy, personalization, and trust in AI interactions.
Happy Birthday, Dad: Why I’m Fighting for ALS Research
On what would have been his 82nd birthday, Ali Madad reflects on his father’s ALS journey, the personal toll of caregiving, and the urgent need to protect NIH funding for ALS research.
The Changing Landscape of Caregiving: New Priorities and Opportunities
Exploring the evolving caregiving environment amid new policy shifts and how caregivers can navigate them effectively.
Balancing Promise and Caution: Reflections on AI in Serious Illness Care
Healthcare leaders explore the promise, ethics, and tensions around AI in serious illness care, offering critical insights for GiveCare, our AI-powered caregiving assistant.
GiveCare Beta Retrospective: User Feedback, Data Insights, and Expert Advice
Reflecting on the GiveCare beta experience, highlighting key learnings from users, systematic evaluations, and expert insights on refining our AI-powered caregiving assistant.
Caregiving Under Threat: Navigating Policy Risks in the 119th Congress
How proposed policy shifts threaten caregivers and care workers, inspired by insights from Caring Across Generations.
From Personal Struggle to Purpose: My Journey to Founding GiveCare
Ali Madad, founder of GiveCare, shares his deeply personal caregiving journey and how it inspired the vision and mission behind GiveCare.
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