10/13/2026
The Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) announced their five finalists and 16 seminfinalists for the 2026 Caregiver of the Year Award, including two of our very own Caregivers for the Northern Tier Region, Alisha Broenneke from Lewiston, ID, and Jeremiah Gilfoy from Silverdale, WA.
Today, we want to highlight Caregiver Alisha Broenneke!
Alisha’s impact on her clients and their families is unmatched. Her most recent client suffers from dementia, and the client knows that when Alisha is there, she is safe, and everything is going to be okay. Alisha helps her client with baking cookies as it’s always been a passion for her. The joy she brings to her current client has brought vitality to one who was once afraid of going out of her own home. She regularly goes places with Alisha, exploring the world and visiting the office to share the freshly baked cookies. She is a fierce champion and protector if she feels her client’s needs are not being properly met.
Her compassion for her clients is evident in the way she cares for them, protects them, and champions them. And her respect for them goes beyond the basic respect of a caregiver for her client – she sympathizes with them, allows them to be who they are, to live their lives in a way that makes them feel safe, comfortable and, of course, happy in their own home.
Read the full article here: https://nuvi.me/5rj6ty