Dan Dzina Founder of Averyn Care
Who handles the appointments, medical records, phone calls, transportation, and constant changes when an aging parent wants to remain at home? For millions of family caregivers, coordinating care can become a second full-time job.
In this episode of All Home Care Matters, host Lance A. Slatton welcomes Dan Dzina, Founder of Averyn Care, for an important conversation about long-distance caregiving, aging in place, healthcare coordination, and the often-overlooked administrative burden families shoulder while supporting aging loved ones.
Dan spent more than a decade building and operating Medicare care management programs, helping develop a technology-enabled clinical services organization with a team of roughly 400. Yet when his own mother’s health declined in 2025, he discovered that the systems he knew so well could not handle the everyday coordination his family needed.
Appointments changed. Information lived in different offices. Callbacks arrived unpredictably. Every adjustment created more work, all while Dan was running a business and raising a family of his own.
His solution began with hiring a personal assistant to manage the family’s administrative follow-through. That experience became Averyn Care, a non-clinical service designed to help families manage the logistics of aging in place without losing control of important decisions.
In this episode, discover:
- Why even families familiar with the healthcare system can struggle to coordinate care
- The challenges of supporting an aging parent from a distance
- Why planning for the years of gradual decline matters alongside financial and end-of-life planning
- How medical records, appointments, transportation, pharmacy coordination, and communication can overwhelm family caregivers
- What a dedicated Care Continuity Partner does to support families and their care professionals
- How technology can organize information without becoming another responsibility for caregivers
- The importance of reducing caregiver stress while helping older adults maintain independence at home
About Dan Dzina:
Dan Dzina is the Founder of Averyn Care, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. With a background in software engineering and more than a decade in healthcare operations, he has worked across Medicare care management, physician practices, clinical teams, and care coordination.
His personal experience navigating his mother’s declining health inspired him to create a service focused on the administrative work families often have to carry alone.
About Averyn Care:
Averyn Care provides families nationwide with a dedicated Care Continuity Partner who manages non-clinical administrative follow-through.
Its one-time Averyn Record Vault organizes medical records, authorizations, and healthcare portal access into a portable resource owned by the family.
Ongoing Continuity Plans provide a dedicated concierge phone number and email, coordination of appointments and transportation, records and pharmacy follow-up, and weekly family updates.
Averyn works alongside, not in place of, geriatric care managers, Aging Life Care professionals, home care agencies, and other trusted providers. The company also works with employers seeking caregiving benefits for their teams.
As Averyn puts it: “We wait on hold, you stay in control.”
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