Dr. Ashley Blackington, OTD, OTR/L, is a board-certified Occupational Therapist, founder, and storyteller at the intersection of caregiving, technology, and culture. She is the creator of Dovetail®, a CareTech platform that launched in July 2025 to help family caregivers organize care, streamline communication, and build sustainable support networks. She also hosts AND/BOTH, a podcast that brings the emotional realities of caregiving and motherhood into the open through raw, thoughtful conversations.

With more than 15 years of clinical experience and her own lived perspective as a caregiver and mom of four, Ashley knows that caregiving is not just a personal role but a systemic challenge that demands better tools, deeper conversations, and more compassion. Her dual mission through Dovetail and AND/BOTH is to create both infrastructure and space: practical tools to ease the daily load and honest dialogue that validates the emotional weight.

Ashley is also the founder of Home Field Advantage, PLLC, extending her work in community health and occupational therapy practice. Whether she’s mentoring therapists, building technology, or sharing stories on the mic, her work is rooted in one core belief: those who care for others deserve to feel supported, equipped, and never alone.

During this episode, we discuss:

• How she’s an OT by training and wanted to integrate her clinical, caregiving, and practice experience together
• Her mission to smooth out as much friction as possible with the things that bog down caregiving
• Why Dovetail is crucial right now for the sandwich generation
• How society’s introduction to caregiving is not gradual; it’s like teaching someone to swim by throwing them in the pool
• What Dovetail is and how it will integrate with healthcare portals
• How Dovetail relieves the mental load
• Balancing her practice with Dovetail
• The lack of care infrastructure in this country
• Why she bootstrapped Dovetail in the beginning

And more. Tune into this episode as we dive into all things caregiving!