Ilihia Gionson, 2021 Dole Caregiver Fellow, Hawaii

All Home Care Matters · May 14, 2026 · 30m

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Ilihia Gionson as guest to the show.

About Ilihia Gionson, 2021 Dole Caregiver Fellow, Hawaii:

In Hawaiʻi, caring for the elderly is part of the native culture. So when it was time for Ilihia to care for his father Anthony, he naturally stepped into the caregiver role.

Anthony was born in Hawaiʻi in 1947 and served in Vietnam in 1966 when he was 19. His time in Vietnam, with a climate and people who reminded him of home, was one of a series of transformational moments for him. Hawaiʻi had only recently become an…