Ellen Kessler, a senior director at hotel chain Hilton Worldwide, learned that Hilton had a new elder-care benefit from a startup called Wellthy that helped her navigate care for her 92-year-old mother Ellen.
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Ellen Kessler was visiting her mother in Florida last year when things took a bad turn.
“She called me at 3 a.m. and was just hysterical, frightened that someone was in the house,” Kessler, who was staying at a hotel nearby, said. “I got there, and it was like she was not the same person. I didn’t know what to do.”