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Short bio
Cory Fosco is the author of The Question of When: A Practical Guide to Knowing When It’s Time for Assisted Living, Memory Care, or Skilled Nursing. He has spent more than three decades in long-term care as a social worker, admissions director, and healthcare executive, and now writes and speaks about how families navigate the decisions the system does not prepare them to make.
Long bio
Cory Fosco has spent over three decades working at the intersection of long-term care, healthcare technology, and the families facing some of the most difficult decisions of their lives. His career in elder care began not in a boardroom but on the ground: as a Jesuit Volunteer Corps outreach worker at the Mesa Senior Center in Arizona after graduating from Loyola University Chicago, and then as a social worker and director of admissions at skilled nursing facilities in Phoenix and the Chicago area. From there he moved into healthcare technology, holding senior roles at ECIN and Resource Systems before joining PointClickCare in 2017, where he serves as Vice President of Enterprise Sales.
Cory holds a BA in Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago and an MA in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University. He taught writing at the community college level for nearly a decade. His chapbook, Empty Streets, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2024; a short story from that collection was Pushcart Prize-nominated. He serves on the advisory board of Disability Rights Advocates and has volunteered with Second Sense and Guide Dogs for the Blind. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife, Cyndi, a vision-impaired advocate in the blind community.
Suggested introduction
Cory Fosco has spent thirty-four years in long-term care as a social worker, admissions director, and healthcare technology executive. He is the author of The Question of When, a practical guide for families facing the assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing decisions that the system rarely prepares them for. Please welcome Cory Fosco.
Book trailer
A short trailer for The Question of When, a practical guide for families facing assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing decisions.
Show trailer transcript
She kept telling herself there was time to figure out the next step.
She had not figured it out.
Waiting feels like love. Acting feels like giving up. Neither is true.
The Question of When: A practical guide for families facing assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing decisions.
By Cory Fosco. Learn more at coryfosco.com.
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Speaking topics
Cory brings more than three decades of frontline experience to every audience, from professional conferences to family caregiver groups, faith communities, and corporate wellness programs. These talks are built from real conversations with real families, not theory. Cory is available for virtual or in-person events year-round, and there is no speaker fee required.
When Is It Time?
Most families don’t miss the signs—they see them and hope they’re wrong. This talk helps audiences recognize the difference between normal aging and genuine decline, and understand why acting earlier leads to better outcomes for everyone.
Navigating Long-Term Care
Independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing—most families encounter these terms for the first time in a crisis. This talk demystifies the continuum of care and gives families a practical map before they need it.
The Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding
We avoid this conversation because we love the people we need to have it with. This talk gives families a concrete, compassionate approach to starting the dialogue about care—before a hospital discharge makes it impossible.
Beyond the Brochure
After decades on the inside of long-term care admissions, Cory shares what families should actually be looking for when touring a facility—and the questions that a brochure never will.
Caregiver Guilt and the Myth of Giving Up
The hardest part of this decision isn’t finding the right place—it’s believing you’re allowed to make it. This talk addresses the guilt that keeps families waiting too long and reframes placement as an act of love, not surrender.
Sample podcast questions
A short list to make prep easy. Cory is happy to answer these, adapt them to the show’s audience, or take the conversation somewhere unexpected.
- How do families know when it is really time for more care?
- What is the difference between assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing?
- Why do most families wait too long, and what does that cost them?
- What do families most often get wrong about Medicare and long-term care?
- What should families actually look for when they tour a facility?
- How does a family start the conversation with a parent who refuses to have it?
- What changes when a spouse is the primary caregiver?
- What is one thing you wish every family knew before a crisis?
As Seen In
Care.com
How to Start the Care Conversation With an Aging Parent
A Care.com feature drawing on my work in long-term care about how families can open the care conversation with an aging parent before a crisis forces it.
Related reading from the site: The Question of When, the free Four Signal Categories Checklist, what Medicare covers for long-term care, how to pay for long-term care, the four types of senior care, and when to move from assisted living to a nursing home.
Podcast appearances
On I See What You're Saying: Navigating Difficult Elder Care Conversations
A conversation with Michael Reddington about knowing when a loved one needs more help, the dynamics that delay the talk, and the parallels in sales and leadership.
On All Home Care Matters: Knowing When It Is Time
A conversation with Lance A. Slatton about the question this book keeps circling back to: not where a family should turn, but when.
On Connecting the Dots: Why Families Wait, and What Helps
A conversation with Matt Reiners about why families wait too long, the knowledge gap that keeps them stuck, and how earlier conversations lead to better care decisions.
Book Cory for a podcast, panel, or keynote
Reach out through the contact form and I’ll respond personally. Cory is available for virtual or in-person events year-round, and there is no speaker fee required.