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Virginia Easy Access is the name of a website developed for seniors, adults with disabilities, their caregivers and the providers that support them. Virginia Easy Access is full of helpful information about services and supports that are available across the Commonwealth.

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Joan Shifflett spoke at the June Breathmatters meeting about After Care for Lung Disease Sufferers, and about the general problems of identifying quality care service for patients, senior citizens and their families. Using her experience as a owner of Always Best Care Senior Services, she described the advantages and the possible pitfalls for patients dealing with medical issues coupled with a desire to stay in one's home for as long as possible, if not indefinitely when using the appropriate strategies.

Discussion included a general survey of costs for varieties of assisted care facilities, types of living arrangements, staying at home costs, and the dilemma of working with medicaid and medicare when facing after care costs.

BIOGRAPHY – JOAN SHIFFLETT

Joan Shifflett is the owner of Always Best Care Senior Services located in Midlothian, VA [web site here] which provides two services to help our senior community – non-medical in-home care and free senior independent and assisted living placement. She has become highly respected among her colleagues and community as someone who cares and wants to make a positive difference in providing high quality care for seniors.

She is a member of HCRN (Health Community Resource Network), RSN (Richmond Senior Network), PIH (Partners In Healthcare), co-founder of Senior Synergy, FERN (Financial Educational Resource Network), BNI-Synergy, Chair for Chesterfield Council On Aging, Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce, and Board of Directors for Centresa, VP for Aging With Grace, and VP for Breath Matters.

Prior to her business ownership, she held a variety of leadership responsibilities at the DuPont Corporation as Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly project lead for migrating corporate business initiatives/needs that connect with IT structure that required aggressive timelines. Few accomplishments included Six Sigma Black Belt Certified with multimillion savings for corporation.

Mentored individual Black Belt and Green Belt candidates to met 100% business unit expectation for Six Sigma requirements pioneered EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for the corporation. What brought her to this change in career? While serving as the Nurture Chairperson at the Brandermill Church, she became very close to the personal needs of not only the congregation but the surrounding community. She made a personal commitment to make a difference in the community even if it was one person at a time. She has served as a volunteer within her church, PTA Board and Athletic Board for her daughter’s schools, and team mom for her daughter’s all-star cheerleading teams. Involved to make a difference continues to be her focus.

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