Anthony Cirillo

Anthony Cirillo, FACHE, ABC – President – 704-992-6005 – ac@theagingexperience.com

IF YOU HAVE A PRODUCT OR SERVICE AND WANT TO REACH
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, BOOMERS AND/OR SENIOR CONSUMERS,
I AM YOUR CONNECTOR.

Anthony is president of The Aging Experience. He helps organizations craft experiences and seize opportunities the mature marketplace. He helps family caregivers thrive and individuals make educated aging decisions. A consultant and professional speaker, Anthony is a monthly contributor on The Charlotte Today program, the about.com expert in Senior Care, an executive board member of CCAL, and a member of the Dementia Action Alliance. In his home community he participates in Huntersville CARES, a dementia friendly community initiative, and is a board member of the Lake Norman Family Health Clinic. A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives with a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, Anthony’s clients have ranged from the Cleveland Clinic, Unisys, and King Faisal Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Carolinas Health Care, Novant Health, Wall Street startups and many more.

As someone who helped launch the patient experience movement, Anthony has a unique ability to envision the future state of health care, see solutions before others see problems and formulate answers before people understand the question. He has been called innovative, inventive, original and resourceful. He provides logical support for futuristic thinking and makes difficult to understand ideas easier for people to comprehend. Anthony can connect the dots in healthcare. CEOs retain him for big picture thinking.

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Anthony Cirillo is a passionate advocate for family caregivers and older adults, helping them lead a quality life through a platform of educated aging – physically, emotionally and financially.

He understands the business of health care and as someone who spends thousands of hours a year with older adults and their caregivers, he understands consumer perspective and needs.

A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Anthony consults with health care organizations globally. Having helped launch a Wall Street startup, he brings marketing savvy and an entrepreneurial mindset to clients, being named a Top 50 Entrepreneur in Charlotte in 2011.

His article “The Chief Experience Officer” became an impetus for the Cleveland Clinic to create an office of patient experience, hire the first hospital chief experience officer and create a groundswell to promote better patient experiences long before the focus on value-based purchasing.

His blog, Educated Aging and corresponding video blogs help consumers understand the health care system while imparting ways to live a quality life. His blog is listed as one of the top boomer blogs by AllTop contributing to Anthony’s online Klout influence that tops 60. His book, Who Moved My Dentures?, dispels myths about aging.

A member of the National Speaker’s Association, he has spoken to thousands of health care professionals and consumers at wide-ranging venues and is represented by several speakers’ bureaus.

Anthony started his career as a producer for CBS-TV in Philadelphia. And he uses skills honed early in his career when he appears on radio and TV as an expert in aging and health care. Anthony is a prolific writer, having written hundreds of blogs and articles. He is often cited in the press including wide-ranging publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, among others.

Anthony fell into a mission and advocacy for elders when he started performing in nursing homes. A gifted singer-performer, he has been to Nashville to record and has sung around the country. He uses his performing gifts in his keynote speeches. Anthony brightens the lives and promotes the quality of life and the dignity of caregivers and seniors. And he is a conduit that helps businesses reach and connect to boomer and senior audiences.