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About Pat
Pat Williams is recognized as a leader in the eldercare field. As a Certified Senior Advisor and with 24 years of working with elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other challenges, Pat addresses corporate and community groups with energy and information.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Education at Northwestern University in Evanston, near her hometown of Chicago. She holds training certifications from the Hospice and Alzheimer’s Association. In 1995, Pat founded Northern Virginia’s first and still unique home companion agency, naming it GraceFul Care in honor of her mother, Grace.
Pat educates her audiences on many subjects related to eldercare, such as becoming a caregiver for a parent, types of dementia, maintaining your brain, creative caregiver approaches, and how to approach difficult situations – the topic of her forthcoming book: Say the Right Thing.
She has served as President and Rotary Assistant Governor, and she serves on various boards such as the Insight Memory Care Center, Leadership Fairfax and the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce. Pat has received many awards, including Chamber Business of the Year, Leadership Fairfax Community Trustee, Rotary Citizen of the Year, and most recently she was recognized as the March of Dimes Heroine of Washington.
About Pat
Pat Williams is recognized as a leader in the eldercare field. As a Certified Senior Advisor and with 24 years of working with elders with Alzheimer’s Disease and other challenges, Pat addresses corporate and community groups with energy and information.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Education at Northwestern University in Evanston, near her hometown of Chicago. She holds training certifications from the Hospice and Alzheimer’s Association. In 1995, Pat founded Northern Virginia’s first and still unique home companion agency, naming it GraceFul Care in honor of her mother, Grace.
Pat educates her audiences on many subjects related to eldercare, such as becoming a caregiver for a parent, types of dementia, maintaining your brain, creative caregiver approaches, and how to approach difficult situations – the topic of her forthcoming book: Say the Right Thing.
She has served as President and Rotary Assistant Governor, and she serves on various boards such as the Insight Memory Care Center, Leadership Fairfax and the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce. Pat has received many awards, including Chamber Business of the Year, Leadership Fairfax Community Trustee, Rotary Citizen of the Year, and most recently she was recognized as the March of Dimes Heroine of Washington.
"I enjoyed my early careers teaching children foreign languages and owning a travel agency, but one year my friends brought many needy older adults into my life, and my friends pointed out that I had great empathy for seniors. I started dreaming seniors were all reaching out to me. So I studied the field for a year and created GraceFul Care as a way to bring assistance and companionship to our elders, with caregivers they could relate to, and who would treasure them."
Honors and Awards
March of Dimes Heroine of Washington
Leadership Fairfax
Community
Trustee Award
Dulles Regional
Chamber Business
of the Year
Rotary Citizen of the Year
Wide Range of Experience
- Serving families and individual clients for over 26 years
- Teaching classes for university students, county employees, businesses and nonprofits
- Training professionals who work with seniors
- Serving as Board Member of Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Serving on the Northern VA Dementia Care Consortium and developing conferences for family members of people with Alzheimer’s Disease
- Participating as a Member of the National Speakers Association, which trains speakers to be informative and entertaining
- Working with the Area Agencies on Aging to develop new support programs for seniors and adults with disabilities
- Chairing the Fairfax Long Term Care Coordinating Council, appointed by the Board of Supervisors
- Creating the Lifetime Leadership Program while on the Board of Leadership Fairfax
- Helping with the growth and expansion of Insight Memory Care as a Board Member
- Creating and staffing Memory Café’s and a Home Share Program
- Serving on the CSA (Certified Senior Advisors)Leaders Network
- Founding and developing the Dulles Executive Women’s Group
- Creating memory testing programs for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of American
- Writing books ( Say the Right Thing), articles, and blogs
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