Founder, LegacyBuilt Innovations Vice President, Angels on Call Homecare
Eric J. Dalton is the founder of LegacyBuilt Innovations and Vice President of Angels on Call Homecare. He is a healthcare executive, entrepreneur, strategist, and human innovation leader building an independent home for human-centered innovation.
Healthcare Executive
Entrepreneur
Strategist
Innovator
Human Innovation Leader
As recognized by
Home-Based Care Momentum Awards, AlayaCare
International Elite 100 Global Awards
914INC.
Hudson Valley Top Forty Under 40
Marquis Who's Who
19
Credentials
10
Awards & honors
6
Credential domains
12
Company distinctions
About Eric
Eric J. Dalton is a healthcare executive, entrepreneur, strategist, and innovation leader whose career has increasingly evolved beyond conventional healthcare administration into the creation of new systems, technologies, education, intellectual property, care models, and human-centered solutions. As an executive leader of Angels on Call Homecare, he operates across an unusually broad portfolio spanning operations, compliance, marketing, governance, organizational strategy, specialized care development, workforce education, emerging technology, and thought leadership, a multidisciplinary range that has become one of the defining characteristics of his career.
Dalton does not approach healthcare, technology, education, strategy, or human behavior as isolated disciplines. His work focuses on what becomes possible when those disciplines intersect. Across his career, he has helped develop and advance specialized dementia and Parkinson's disease programs, professional education systems, workforce-development initiatives, aging-in-place models, digital decision-support resources, AI-enabled concepts, proprietary frameworks, and new approaches to personalized care, guided by a deceptively simple question: what should exist that does not exist yet?
That question became the foundation for LegacyBuilt Innovations, an independent platform capable of transforming meaningful ideas into scalable products, technologies, intellectual property, education, and strategic solutions. Through LegacyBuilt Labs, LegacyBuilt Academy, LegacyBuilt Advisory, and LegacyBuilt IP, Dalton is building an ecosystem designed to move ideas from insight to implementation, and from innovation to enduring value, guided by a simple philosophy: innovation should never exist merely to be impressive. It should elevate human potential, solve something meaningful, and create value designed to endure.
Executive Leadership & Governance at Angels on Call Homecare
Dalton holds a multidisciplinary portfolio of executive roles at Angels on Call Homecare, reflecting the breadth of his leadership across the organization.
Vice President
As Vice President, Dalton provides executive leadership across organizational strategy, operations, innovation, growth, specialized program development, workforce initiatives, technology adoption, and enterprise development. His work has helped advance Angels on Call beyond the traditional boundaries of homecare toward a highly specialized model emphasizing dementia care, Parkinson's disease, advanced aging in place, professional education, technology-enabled support, and quality-of-life innovation.
Chief Compliance Officer
As Chief Compliance Officer, Dalton provides leadership across regulatory compliance, risk management, quality oversight, policy development, organizational accountability, and adherence to New York State homecare requirements. His approach integrates compliance into broader organizational strategy rather than treating it as an isolated regulatory function, helping ensure innovation and growth remain grounded in responsible governance and quality.
Chief Marketing Officer
As Chief Marketing Officer, Dalton leads brand strategy, communications, positioning, digital strategy, thought leadership, content development, public relations, and consumer education, work that has contributed to positioning the organization around nationally differentiated expertise in dementia care, Parkinson's disease, aging in place, and workforce education.
Health Services Administrator
Dalton also serves as Health Services Administrator, contributing to strategic administration, operations, organizational development, and leadership coordination for a New York State licensed homecare organization.
Chairman of the Board
Dalton currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Angels on Call Homecare, contributing to governance, long-range planning, executive decision-making, organizational strategy, and future direction.
Dalton previously served as Member-at-Large, then Vice President, of the Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York State Association of Health Care Providers. He completed one term in chapter leadership and does not currently serve on that board.
Personal Credentials & Advanced Education
Dalton's professional development spans dementia and cognitive care, Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, behavioral health, aging in place, palliative and serious-illness care, artificial intelligence, and healthcare strategy, pursued deliberately across disciplines that combine to design better systems, rather than collected as standalone accomplishments.
CDCP
Certified Dementia Care Partner (CDCP)
Inspired Memory Care
Certified Dementia Engagement Specialist (CDES)
Inspired Memory Care
JHU
Dementia Care Specialist Training, Tier 1
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Memory & Aging Services Innovation Center
Completed July 27, 2024. Advanced professional education focused on dementia care, cognitive change, person-centered approaches, behavioral understanding, family support, and evidence-informed care practices.
JHU
Dementia Care Specialist Training, Tier 2
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Memory & Aging Services Innovation Center
Completed July 30, 2024. Expanded Dalton's dementia-care education into more advanced applications involving complex care needs, care planning, communication, behavioral presentation, and interdisciplinary support.
JHU
Management of Agitation
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Completed January 27, 2026. Advanced education addressing agitation, behavioral symptoms, contributing factors, communication, assessment, and approaches to managing complex behavioral presentations.
MDC
The Montessori Dementia Capable Certification Course
Loyola University Maryland, Center for Continuing Education
Completed November 26, 2024 · 8 hours of continuing education. Training in Montessori-informed dementia care principles, independence, environmental design, engagement, retained abilities, dignity, and meaningful participation.
EDCT
EssentiALZ Dementia Care Training
Professional dementia-care education strengthening person-centered care, communication, behavior, engagement, and quality-of-life practice.
CCUL
Caring with Confidence: Understanding Lewy Body Dementia
Lewy Body Dementia Association, Lewy Learning Center
Completed July 15, 2026 · 1 hour, 57 minutes. Specialized education on Lewy body dementia, clinical presentation, behavioral and cognitive symptoms, care considerations, and disease-specific support.
UP
Understanding Psychosis
University of Michigan
Completed February 28, 2025. Education addressing psychosis, clinical presentation, contributing factors, treatment concepts, and behavioral-health considerations, strengthening Dalton's ability to understand complex neuropsychiatric symptoms that can intersect with dementia, neurological conditions, and aging.
Certified Parkinson's Disease Care Advocate (CPDC™)
Parkinson & Movement Disorder Alliance
An individual credential held personally by Dalton, distinct from Angels on Call Homecare's organizational Certified Parkinson Disease Care accreditation (also CPDC™). His Parkinson's expertise informs specialized workforce education, medication-timing awareness, mobility strategy, disease-specific planning, and family education.
PFSC
Parkinson's Foundation Site Champion
Parkinson's Foundation
Current. Supports implementation of disease-specific education, organizational awareness, and improved approaches to caring for individuals living with Parkinson's disease.
APDP
Advanced Parkinson's Disease Professional Education
American Parkinson Disease Association
Strengthened knowledge of disease progression, symptoms, mobility, medications, communication, and care considerations.
SGLF
Support Group Leader Fundamentals (On Demand Training)
Parkinson & Movement Disorder Alliance
Completed August 29, 2025. Professional development in support-group leadership, facilitation, engagement, communication, and community building for individuals and families affected by movement disorders.
SMAH
Stanford Medicine, AI in Healthcare
Stanford University School of Medicine
Completed 54.50 Non-Physician Participation Credits across the full curriculum: Introduction to Healthcare (12.0 credits), Introduction to Clinical Data (11.0 credits), Fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare (11.0 credits), Evaluations of AI Applications in Healthcare (9.5 credits), and the AI in Healthcare Capstone Project (11.0 credits). This education directly informs LegacyBuilt Labs' work developing AI-enabled tools, digital systems, and emerging healthcare technology.
HCI
Health Care Innovation
Penn Medicine / Wharton Online, University of Pennsylvania
Completed February 28, 2025. Professional education in innovation within healthcare systems, including emerging models, strategic opportunities, value creation, and transformation, complementing Dalton's real-world work developing specialized programs, digital tools, and technology-enabled solutions.
Aging in Place Essentials Professional
Age Safe America
Professional education in aging-in-place strategy, addressing the interdisciplinary considerations necessary to help people remain safely, meaningfully, and independently in the homes and communities they choose, a central component of Dalton's broader Aging in Place - Redefined philosophy.
EPC
Essentials of Palliative Care
Stanford University School of Medicine
Completed March 3, 2025 · 11.50 hours. Foundational palliative-care principles and interdisciplinary management of serious illness.
SMPC
Symptom Management in Palliative Care
Stanford University School of Medicine
Completed March 10, 2025 · 9.75 hours. Advanced symptom assessment and management within palliative and serious-illness care. (Combined Stanford Medicine palliative-care education: 21.25 hours.)
IPC
Introduction to Palliative Care
Center to Advance Palliative Care / Medical Society of the State of New York
Completed July 18, 2026 · 1.00 hour. Strengthened understanding of palliative-care principles, serious-illness communication, and person-centered decision-making.
Awards & Recognition
Dalton's work has received recognition spanning healthcare leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, executive achievement, humanitarian impact, and home-based care.
2026
Impact & Innovation Award Winner
Home-Based Care Momentum Awards, AlayaCare
Honors leadership that advances home-based care through meaningful innovation, measurable impact, and forward-thinking solutions.
Healthcare Visionary of the Year
International Elite 100 Global Awards
914INC. Wunderkind
914INC.
Honoring rising executives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders making a significant impact across the region.
Hudson Valley Top Forty Under 40
Celebrating professionals and emerging leaders shaping business and community across the Hudson Valley region.
Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award
Recognizing service, leadership, humanitarian contribution, and commitment to meaningful impact.
2025
Healthcare Visionary of the Year
International Elite 100 Global Awards
Global Recognition Award
For Exceptional Leadership in Healthcare.
Additional recognition
Marquis Top Executives
Recognizing executive leadership, professional accomplishment, and industry contribution.
Marquis Who's Who in America
Recognizing professional achievement and contributions to industry and leadership.
HomeCare Hero
Recognizing leadership and contribution within the homecare sector.
Career Accomplishments & Innovation
Dalton's career accomplishments extend well beyond professional education and recognition. His defining strength has been translating knowledge into systems that can actually operate.
Advancing Specialized Dementia Care
Dalton has played a central strategic role in developing and advancing specialized dementia-care programs that move beyond task-oriented homecare, with an emphasis on identity, purpose, communication, behavior, meaningful engagement, workforce specialization, family education, cognitive support, and quality of life. He has also contributed to the creation of advanced dementia-care training pathways and specialized Memory Care Angel programming.
Advancing Parkinson's Disease Care
Dalton has helped shape a highly specialized Parkinson's-care model incorporating disease-specific workforce education, medication-timing awareness, mobility support, care planning, family education, continuity, quality of life, and advanced aging-in-place strategy, leadership that has contributed to Angels on Call Homecare becoming recognized for highly specialized movement-disorder care.
Aging in Place - Redefined
Dalton is the creator and visionary behind Aging in Place - Redefined, an expanding education, technology, resource, and thought-leadership platform built around a larger proposition: aging in place should mean more than remaining in the same house. It should mean continuing to live with purpose, identity, choice, connection, safety, independence, meaning, and quality of life. The platform incorporates educational content, family resources, digital tools, assessment experiences, dementia and Parkinson's support, and caregiver tools.
Digital Tools & Human-Centered Technology
Dalton has developed and conceptualized digital tools addressing caregiver burnout, dementia behavior, Parkinson's daily rhythms, care transitions, family decision-making, meaningful activity, care planning, home readiness, cognitive change, hospital-to-home transitions, and aging-in-place planning, projects that increasingly bridge healthcare knowledge with AI, interactive technology, behavioral science, and experience design.
Proprietary Framework Development
Dalton has developed and advanced proprietary frameworks and methodologies that structure complex human and organizational challenges into actionable systems, focused on assessment, human engagement, purpose, care strategy, decision-making, family support, implementation, and quality of life, representing an important part of the intellectual foundation behind LegacyBuilt IP.
Workforce & Education Innovation
Dalton has helped develop specialized professional-development pathways supporting advanced workforce capability across dementia care, Parkinson's disease, aging in place, person-centered care, meaningful engagement, and complex homecare, reflecting a belief that the quality of any healthcare innovation ultimately depends on the people responsible for delivering it.
Company Achievements under Eric's Leadership, Angels on Call Homecare
The distinctions below belong to Angels on Call Homecare as an organization, not to Dalton personally, and should never be represented as personal credentials or awards. They are included here because they reflect the specialized organization he has helped strategically develop and lead.
Certified Parkinson Disease Care (CPDC™) accreditationParkinson's Foundation Community Partner in Parkinson's Care (CPPC), 2026Age-Friendly Health Systems, Committed to Care ExcellencePurple Flag for Dementia CareBest of Home Care Provider of Choice 2026Best of Home Care Employer of Choice 2026Best of Home Care Leader in Experience 2026Caring.com Caring Super Star, Best Senior CareAlzheimer's Association Curriculum Review Recognized, Angels On Call Homecare Dementia Care Training, 2026-2028CareScout Quality Network ProviderHudson Valley Community Choice Award, Home Healthcare ServicesHudson Valley Community Choice Award, Employee Training Program
Dementia accreditation
Specialized dementia and Parkinson's workforce development
Advanced aging-in-place care models
Founder Philosophy
Dalton believes legacy is misunderstood. Legacy is not simply what remains after someone is gone. It is what happens when purpose is deliberately embedded into the things we create while we are here. A meaningful insight can become a concept. A concept can become a system. A system can become intellectual property. Intellectual property can become education. Education can become capability. Capability can create impact. Impact can scale. And scaled impact can become legacy.
“I've never been interested in innovation simply for the sake of novelty. I'm interested in building what should exist, ideas, systems, technologies, and experiences that make people better, organizations stronger, and the future more meaningful. Legacy isn't something we should wait to leave behind. It should be designed into what we build from the beginning.”
Eric J. Dalton, Founder, LegacyBuilt Innovations
Eric J. Dalton represents a multidisciplinary model of executive leadership built for an increasingly complex future. He does not separate operations from innovation, compliance from strategy, or technology from humanity. His work brings them together. Clinical education informs care design. Behavioral science informs human engagement. Dementia and Parkinson's expertise inform specialization. Palliative care informs dignity and quality of life. Artificial intelligence expands what's possible. And now, LegacyBuilt Innovations provides an independent platform through which that work can scale.
Who is Eric J. Dalton?
How does Eric J. Dalton connect healthcare, technology, and strategy?
Dalton does not approach healthcare, technology, education, strategy, or human behavior as isolated disciplines. His work focuses on what becomes possible when those disciplines intersect.
What is Eric J. Dalton's approach to aging in place?
Dalton is the creator and visionary behind Aging in Place - Redefined, an expanding education, technology, resource, and thought-leadership platform built around a larger proposition: aging in place should mean more than remaining in the same house. It should mean continuing to live with purpose, identity, choice, connection, safety, independence, meaning, and quality of life. The platform incorporates educational content, family resources, digital tools, assessment experiences, dementia and Parkinson's support, and caregiver tools.
Which disciplines inform Eric J. Dalton's professional development?
Dalton's professional development spans dementia and cognitive care, Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, behavioral health, aging in place, palliative and serious-illness care, artificial intelligence, and healthcare strategy, pursued deliberately across disciplines that combine to design better systems, rather than collected as standalone accomplishments.
How does Eric J. Dalton define legacy?
Dalton believes legacy is misunderstood. Legacy is not simply what remains after someone is gone. It is what happens when purpose is deliberately embedded into the things we create while we are here.
