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Your Aging Well Advisor is an educational and consulting firm specializing in aging well and caregiving issues. Founded in 2007, we have provided information to thousands of consumers. It is our mission to assist with maintaining quality of life at any age.
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Lynn Alexander is known as Your Aging Well Advisor, an experienced leader and tireless advocate for seniors. Over the past fourteen years, Ms. Alexander has served as a Michigan Cabinet Official, a State Commissioner for Aging Services and a government executive for Oakland County. She understands the importance of Aging Well and the need to support caregivers. Ms. Alexander has represented a constituency of 1.2 million seniors and garnered a readership of over 140,000 citizens as a writer and editor for a variety of senior publications.
Under her leadership the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging launched innovative programs including home based services, the Eden Alternative (quality improvement program for long-term care), and a state of the art interactive website. OSA was the first state agency to be launched under the eMichigan program. Ms. Alexander was instrumental in the development of a highly successful long-term care education campaign and the creation of a long-term care insurance benefit for State of Michigan employees, their parents and grandparents. For the first time in its history OSA provided healthy aging programs for the 50+ in age. During her tenure the State of Michigan earmarked unprecedented funding for refurbishing senior centers and adult day care facilities.
Lynn Alexander is a founding Co-Chair of the Oakland County Save Task Force (Serving Adults who are Vulnerable and/or Elderly) and the Founding Editor of the Senior Advocate Newsletter which reaches residents who are 50+ in age. An active member of her community, Lynn serves on the Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology Board of Visitors and the Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Board of Directors. She has been the recipient of the Wonder Woman Award (Women's Survival Center) and the Friend of MMAP Award (Medicare Medicaid Assistance Program). She served as Chair of the State Employees Combined Campaign for two years and the Oakland County Employee American Heart Association Campaign for two years as well.
Ms. Alexander earned a BSW degree in Social Work (Defiance College) and an MA in Psychology (Lone Mountain College San Francisco State).
For twenty years prior to her work in aging services, Ms. Alexander was a frequently requested speaker for Fortune 500 Corporations. Many organizations have sought her counsel in areas such as strategic planning for senior centers, transportation, senior friendly community planning, long-term care issues, nutrition services and healthy aging. Her unique talents make her the right person at the right time to act as an advisor for 50+ in age constituents.