TALATalks: The Podcast From The Texas Assisted Living Association
Running an Assisted Living community requires expertise in a wide range of areas. TALATalks provides information, ideas, and life hacks to make running your community a little easier.
To learn more about TALATalks and stay updated on upcoming episodes, visit https://tala.org/talatalks/ or reach out to Anthony Ormsbee-Hale at anthony.ormsbee-hale@tala.org. Don't miss out on the chance to be part of the conversation shaping the future of assisted living in Texas and beyond.
TALATalks: The Podcast From The Texas Assisted Living Association
TALATalks Resource: How CMedEd Empowers Families Facing Cancer
In this episode of TALATalks, the official podcast of the Texas Assisted Living Association, Anthony Ormsbee-Hale sits down with Phyllis Pittman, founder of CMedEd, a patient-centered, free digital health platform designed to support cancer patients and their families. Phyllis shares her personal motivation behind creating the resource, drawing from her father’s cancer journey and the lack of accessible information available at the time. Together, they discuss how CMedEd provides clear, compassionate, and medically vetted information—supported by over 2,000 illustrations and contributions from top cancer institutions—to help families make confident decisions.
The conversation explores how senior living executive directors can use CMedEd to guide overwhelmed families, distribute reliable resources, and foster hope without overstepping clinical boundaries. Phyllis highlights inspiring patient stories where access to clear information changed lives, and she underscores the importance of hope, peer support, and empowerment in navigating a cancer diagnosis.
Listeners will leave with practical ways to share this resource in their senior living communities and a renewed sense of how trusted information can transform care.
To learn more about TALATalks and stay updated on upcoming episodes, visit https://tala.org/talatalks/ or reach out to Anthony Ormsbee-Hale at anthony.ormsbee-hale@tala.org.
