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INTERVIEW – Steve Shields: “It’s Time To Plan for Transformation”

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Steve Shields

Steve Shields’ journey from heading up a long-shore drilling operation in the Middle East to becoming a key player in the eldercare culture change movement began with the loss of his mother.

In the mid-80s, his mother had advanced Alzheimer’s and his father had Parkinson’s, two “headline diseases,” as he calls them. So, Shields went home to Kansas to help.

“The options available to them were dismal,” he remembers. Read the full story

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