Her MISSION:
Helping seniors maximize their joy and quality of life, whether they choose to stay in their own home, downsize to a smaller home or make a transition to a senior living community. Clients are supported with compassionate personal assistance that can include daily money management, calendar upkeep, shopping, home maintenance, transportation and assistance with medical, legal and tax professionals.
Once the needs for a client & their family members are assessed, a customized plan will be agreed upon. This is a mercurial process that requires thoughtful observations, pro-active responses and care revisions as ones necessities can frequently and sometimes suddenly change.
**Ask Alice LLC carries a $1 million liability insurance policy. A certificate of insurance is available upon request.
About ALICE:
Alice developed her services after helping her mother with day-to-day needs that had become challenging as she entered her 80’s. She helped her navigate various medical specialist, daily finances and securing safe contractors for home repairs and maintenance when needed. When the time came for her to downsize, Alice helped her with navigating the sale of her home and purchasing a smaller patio home. From those experiences, she started her business to serve seniors in the Asheville area.
Growing up in a large family in Spartanburg, SC, she became a caring advocate at an early age for her sister who was born with developmental disabilities. Alice has always been an avid animal lover and in her youth was an active member in the US Pony Club and horse show competitions. As a young adult, she combined her love for horses and helping the disabled when her Junior League volunteer placement was helping launch HALTER, a therapeutic horseback riding program for the disabled. Since living in Asheville, she has volunteered at Brother Wolf and The Boys & Girls Club in Hendersonville.
Alice has enjoyed a successful career path in business management and operations. She worked as a mall manager in the shopping center industry for six years, which began in Spartanburg, SC, then Durango, CO and onto Jacksonville, FL. In 2001, she was relocated to Asheville, NC by the Asheville Mall where she oversaw 50+ mall employees working in maintenance, security, marketing and administration. Other duties included tenant relations with the 100+ lessees, operating a $4 million budget, rent collections, marketing strategies, overseeing store build-outs, renovations, repairs and landscaping. After leaving the mall industry and being a stay-at-home mom, she returned to work as a contracted employee with the US Department of Veterans Affairs for five years. Prior to that employment placement, a high security clearance was required from OPM (US Office of Personnel Management). She served as the IT Operations Manager for the VA’s CPAC (Consolidated Patient Account Center) during an expansion of Asheville’s main data center to stand up 6 additional regional data centers across the country. Her primary function was managing the procurement of all IT equipment, systems and contracts. At the height of expansions, she forecasted and operated an annual budget of $10 million for the seven data centers that supported the 4000 VA workers and programs within CPAC.
The skill sets honed in Alice’s career path have imparted her with a wide range of experiences. This versatility, complimented with her nurturing disposition has shaped her ability to be an effective advocate and assistant for her clients.
Alice lives in South Asheville with her teenage son and their beloved boxer Gracie.
**References available by request
