About Us

Josie Lawrence brings her 30-year experience in finance to her role as a Senior Care Specialist with Senior Care Authority.   Josie is passionate about feeding seniors and has been a volunteer chef and organizer for 20 years at a Saturday morning meal preparation and delivery program for seniors in need in East Midtown. She is also a volunteer chef at a Soup Kitchen on Park Avenue.  What excites Josie about Senior Care Authority is the assistance, advocacy, and multi-layered support for families with challenging decisions.

Anne Elwell, RN, MPH, is a past Principal and Vice President of Community Relations at Qualidigm, a not-for-profit healthcare quality improvement and consulting organization in Connecticut, and has over 28 years of experience in healthcare quality improvement, specifically overseeing the care provided to the Medicare population, with a focus on patient-centered care. Her area of professional specialization is in forming collaborations with leaders of hospitals, nursing homes, home care agencies, physician practices, other health care and community providers, and patients and families to improve communications and processes for patient transitions between health care settings.

Anne’s professional expertise was invaluable as she worked with her parents and family to identify the most supportive living environment for her aging parents.  Her understanding of the clinical, emotional, and social issues involved allowed her parents and family to determine that an assisted living facility was the right solution for them.

Robert W. Elwell Jr., MD spent three decades providing primary care to residents in central Connecticut.  Prior to relocating to the Naples area, he pursued his passion and provided medical care to a predominantly geriatric population at Masonicare in Wallingford, CT, a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).  His patients lived in various home settings including independent living, assisted living as well as rehabilitation, long-term care and memory care. He worked with his patients and their families when circumstances made it necessary to make alternative living situations to provide the safest and most supportive environment for their physical and emotional well-being. He often states that “he learned as much from his patients as they got from him.” He is an avid listener and problem solver.

Originally from Long Island, New York, Karen, her husband, Donald, and their three children relocated to Florida in 1987 when her husband’s Pharmaceutical Company transferred him to the sunshine state.  

Karen began her career in Senior Living in 1997 as Executive Director for an Independent Assisted Living Community and Memory Care Community where she was involved in many organizations in her hometown. With many years in radio as a talk show host and writer of articles for two newspapers, Karen was able to use her media experience to provide valuable information to the many senior listeners and became well known as a “Community Mover and Shaker."

Imbedded into the Southwest Florida lifestyle, Karen earned a reputation in the Senior Living Industry as a forward thinker in the world of Memory Care. Using her experience as a caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s, a son with Down Syndrome, and over 20 years working in the Senior Living verticle, she successfully developed programs for her Memory Care Communities Neighborhoods throughout Florida and worked diligently to make the changes needed in Assisted Living and Memory Care. Karen is a Nationally Certified Dementia Practitioner and is considered an expert in the Senior Living Industry.

Felicia Saraceno has a distinct passion for working with seniors. She is a Certified Dementia Practitioner with ten years of experience in the senior health care industry. She has worked in senior living as an executive director and sale director assisting seniors, families and their loved ones with transition to assisted living, memory care and continuing care retirement communities. She has extensive knowledge and skills of the areas senior living communities in Southwest Florida to help guide families to the perfect solution for their unique needs. 

In addition to assisting with transitional care she can also assist families with more than just senior placement. Felicia is also an experienced realtor and can assist with decluttering, home staging and the real estate sale of your loved ones home, providing a full service package to her clients. 

Felicia also volunteers for the Parkinson’s Association of Southwest Florida as a committee member and is the co-chair for their annual walk, the Alzheimer’s Association, and is a board member for the Naples Interagency Council. 

Her compassion and empathy provides families with overall peace of mind.