123 Maplewood Lane Apartment 4B, Springfield, IL 62704 Care line answered 24 hours

Dana Okafor

Memory care lead, 7 years

Dana leads our memory care work. She is trained in dementia-specific approaches and, more usefully, has spent seven years learning what actually settles a household at four in the afternoon.

She builds routines deliberately simple enough that a spouse or an adult child can keep them going on the days she is not there — the same chair, the same music, the same order of doing things. Families regularly tell us the routine outlasted the crisis that prompted the call.

Dana also runs the home safety reviews for every new memory support client.

The rest of the team

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Marisol Reyes CNA

Marisol Reyes

Senior caregiver, 9 years

Morning routines and mobility support. Speaks Spanish and English. Known for getting people to the breakfast table on bad days.

Theresa Nowak RN

Theresa Nowak

Registered nurse, 14 years

Runs the clinical side: wound care, medication reviews and the ninety-day plan reviews with the family and the doctor.

Andre Whitfield CNA

Andre Whitfield

Overnight caregiver, 5 years

Covers overnight sits and hospital discharges. Trained in safe transfers for clients who need two-person assistance.