Family of Specialists
Home Care Specialists in Fort Myers, Florida
Nurizon at Home® provides support with activities of daily living to include bathing, dressing, toileting, and medication management as well as culinary and personal training, wellness and nutrition. We’re here to help you meet your personal and health needs today and in the future.
Caregiver Support
Personal Training
Wellness + Nutrition
Culinary Services
Sue Ryan
Positive Caregiving Support Mentor, Coach, Speaker, Advocate
Sue Ryan is a transition strategist. As a coach, caregiver, educator, author, speaker, storyteller and advocate, she has helped people all over the world manage the challenges associated with major life changes. Sue has helped organizations and leaders, individuals, groups and families navigate the move from where they are to where they know they want to be.
Nurizon has partnered with Sue for all of these reasons – and more. For more than 35 years, she’s offered families and their loved ones non-professional caregiving support and is currently caring for her husband through his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. Along the way, she developed her trademark perspective – massive acceptance and radical presence™.
As your mentor, Sue will help you move from fear, frustration and the feeling of being overwhelmed, to feeling confident, balanced and supported in your caregiving role.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, take a minute to absorb just a few of Sue’s signature affirmations:
“I choose to care from a place of love.”
“I will never be alone. Help and care are all around me. I receive so I can give.”
“Massive acceptance and radical presence give me the gift of living each moment from its greatest potential.”
Download Sue Ryan’s online guide, 4 Tips for Navigating the Elephants in the Caregiving Room.
Tip 1: Embrace your unique perspectives to live authentically.
Tip 2: Evaluate your beliefs to be sure they still service you.
Tip 3: Break things down into manageable pieces so they won’t overwhelm you.
Tip 4: Manage important conversations and relationships so they support, rather than hinder you.
Angela Gagauf
Fifty Plus Personal Training
Personal training can help our clients improve their health and fitness by teaching them how to adopt a healthier lifestyle through exercise. Exercise programs are developed based on your individual fitness level, medical history, needs, and goals. And it can all be done in the convenience of your home.
We’ve partnered with Angela Gagauf because of her specialty in helping clients transition from medical management and physical therapy to a regular physical activity program.
Angela is a Medical Exercise Specialist who helps people in the Naples area regain a level of fitness and well-being that enhances every aspect of their lives. She specializes in exercise programs for clients with chronic medical conditions, or those who have recently been discharged from physical therapy, chiropractic, or medical care.
Angela works with clients who have hypertension, osteoporosis, diabetes, joint replacements, arthritis, back issues and neurologic disorders. Every program is designed based on a medical history review and muscular, postural, and pre-existing condition-based assessments in order to ensure the exercise program is the perfect one for you.
- Medical Exercise Specialist, Medical Exercise Training Institute
- Exercise Physiologist, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
- Personal Trainer, National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) & National
- Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
- Health Coach, American Council on Exercise (ACE)
- Nutrition Specialist, American Academy of Sports Dieticians and Nutritionists (AASDN)
- Certified Postural Exercise Professional, BodyZone
- Fitness Coach, Wellcoaches® School of Coaching
- First Aid/CPR/AED, American Heart Association
Lindy Smith
Personal Training
We’ve partnered with Lindy Smith because of her firm belief that movement is at the core of what it means to feel healthy and engaged in living our best lives. We know that our clients will appreciate her broad approach to supporting an individualized fitness and wellness program, meeting each at their own level. Her mission is simple, but powerful. To get people moving so they can lead meaningful lives as independently as possible.
Lindy has a long list of credentials that make her the ideal partner for Nurizon. She is an ACE®-certified personal trainer, a group exercise instructor, certified by and Athletics and Fitness Association of America, and a Certified Dementia Care Specialist.
In addition to her expertise with traditional methods for building and maintaining agility, balance, strength and flexibility, Lindy is also an ardent fan of Urban Poling and a certified trainer. Urban Poling is a fun and low-impact way for older adults who enjoy walking outside to improve their posture, gait and confidence.
Lindy is an active older adult herself and maintains her wellness by hiking, walking with poles, teaching exercise classes and practicing yoga. She has worked for the past 40 years creating programs for the underserved, individuals and groups with social or medical challenges and all types of older adults.
- Certified ACE Personal Trainer
- Certified AFAA Group Ex
- Certified Dementia Care Specialist
- Certified Urban Poling Instructor
Kevin Chiddister
Florida Personal Training
Whether your journey leads to one-on-one personal training, small group sessions or to pre-recorded online clinics, Kevin Chiddister, the owner of Florida Personal Training and OnlineFitnessandWellness.com has something for everyone.
Kevin has been in the fitness industry for more than 15 years, serving as coach, trainer and wellness advocate. He has surrounded himself with a team of expert trainers, physical therapists and nutritionists who all aim to help their clients age gracefully so they can enjoy the activities they love. Whether you choose to work out in their private 2400 square foot facility in downtown Naples, or the comfort of your own home workout space, you’ll find yourself in a safe and friendly atmosphere that allows you to have fun and get the results you want for both your body and soul.
Online training and courses are a great choice for those who like to stay closer to home.
Current options include:
- Online personal training
- Wellness coaching
- Pickleball Fitness and Cross Fitness Training
- Workout of the Day
We think you’ll be especially impressed with Kevin’s training methods. He’s focused on the needs of each individual and knows how to educate and motivate each client to reach their goals as they create lifelong habits.
Patricia Iorio
Wellness + Nutrition – Health Span Solutions
Patricia Iorio has dedicated her career to the belief that wellness is something that everyone can achieve – at any age and at every stage. Her experience spans everything from one-to-one nutritional coaching to leadership of a national team of dietitians providing services to more than 400 senior living communities across the country. Throughout, she’s been a mentor, motivator, counselor and trainer to people pursuing wellness through nutrition — for themselves and others.
Pat started Health Span Solutions in 2013 to support individuals, companies and families in pursuit of better health and wellness through nutrition. Her years of work with seniors has led her to a deep understanding of the issues that cause so many to deal with heightened GI issues. With individualized counselling for all health conditions and diseases, her services vary for each client, but typically zero in on the practical steps you can take to better digest and absorb healthy foods.
Meeting with each client online or in person, Pat will begin with a health assessment and goal setting. After discussing your health goals, medical background, allergies and preferences, you’ll learn about your own unique nutritional needs and master the art and science of healthy eating with personalized meal plans. Personalized meal planning services can remove the barriers of time, complexity and stress associated with healthy eating.
- Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist – #403986
- Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist – Florida -#9104
- Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist- MA-#1059
- Functional Medicine Nutritionist-eligible
- American Dietetic Association
- Integrative Practitioner Association
Chef Bill Springer
Culinary Services – Chefs for Seniors
Adhering to a healthy meal plan can do wonders for wellbeing at every age and every stage. The social and physical benefits of a well-cooked meal extend far beyond the food’s nutritional value. We firmly believe that having limited mobility, dexterity or cognition should never be a prescription for having a limited menu!
That’s why Nurizon has partnered with Chefs for Seniors — to offer you or our loved ones meals that engage your senses, enrich your soul and nourish your body.
Our cooking follows the premises of the Mediterranean Diet, which was inspired by the traditional eating habits of the amazingly healthy people living near the Mediterranean Sea. Our menus feature a heavy dose of fruits and vegetables, olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals and fish. We use moderate amounts of dairy products and other non-fish proteins. You pick the menu from a collection of more than 70 to last you for one or several weeks. Within hours of your delivery, we’ve shopped and cooked the meals in your home or our own certified-safe commercial kitchen. Your meals are delivered in individual packages that are dated and labelled for immediate use or storage in your refrigerator or freezer.
Meals are cooked just for you, so we can tweak recipes to suit your needs and preferences. As advocates for your health (or the health of your loved one), we’re also avid practitioners of “stealth health,” finding many creative and unseen ways to “hide the spinach” or other health boosters.
For so many of us, great food has been the highlight of our lives. Chefs for Seniors will enliven your kitchen and your table with the joy of cooking and eating beautiful, chef-made meals.
- Certified Executive Chef
- Serve Safe Certified
