About Joan

Joan Crawford has a bachelor's degree in gerontology and lifelong interest in the field of aging.

As a recruiter, trainer, and supervisor of volunteers working in convalescent hospitals and retirement communities, she developed early on an understanding of the need for physical, psychological, and social support throughout one's lifetime.

As a community outreach resource manager for a non-profit senior retirement community, she recognized further the extent to which older people need such services.

As the manager of a busy home care agency she emphasized the importance of making careful and thorough assessments of the care needs for the frail elderly. She also appreciates the older adult's need for thrift in money management and financial planning.

As a case manager for seniors in the community as a case manager for low income seniors in the community a better understanding of the many hurdles the frail and elderly experience. Finding resources and programs is a maze that is difficult enough for the strong and healthy to maneuver, much less the frail, frightened and vulnerable to access and obtain services.

These qualifications and broad experience in providing services to both the affluent and poor have enabled her to excel in providing these much needed services to older adults for over twenty years.

Her comprehensive consulting skills with clients, care providers, and family members, enable her to reduce the anxiety of trying situations and to ease for everyone the process of making care arrangements for an aging loved one.