Executive Board Members

Executive Director, Sona Senior Living, Canton Regency
Lisa Massey has worked in senior living for over 20 years. She had led both nonprofit and for-profit senior living communities and is a licensed nursing home administrator. She is also a Certified Eden Alternative Associate and is passionate about Person Centered Care. She has a strong commitment to enhancing the lives of seniors by delivering quality services, innovative programs, and most importantly, meaningful connections and relationships. She earned both her Bachelors’ degree in Long Term Care Administration and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration locally. She was involved with the coalition when it was founded in 2005 and served on the education committee.

Senior Research Scholar/ Interim Director Opening Minds Through Art
Miami University | Scripps Gerontology Center

Dr. Amy Elliot is a Senior Research Scholar at the Scripps Gerontology Center. Her research focuses on advances that support person-directed, inclusive, and equitable long-term care environments. She was formerly the Director of Research and Evaluation for the Pioneer Network where she was responsible for exploring and elucidating person-directed living at the organizational, state, and federal policy levels. She also consults with leading innovators to evaluate strategies that focus on the determinants and drivers of quality of life including the constructs of choice, autonomy, and relationships.

Administrator
Dublin Assisted Living and Memory Support

Dionne has been a licensed nursing home administrator since 1998 and has worked in skilled nursing for over 19 years. She has been the co-lead for the person centered care education committee and fully implemented person centered care in Crown Pointe Care Center and Darby Glenn. She has experience initiating universal workers, removing all get up schedules and allowing residents to rise on own. Crown Pointe was a mentor to other communities looking to put person centered care in place. In 2017, she became the Assistant Executive Director at Dublin Retirement Village and in 2021 became the Executive Director. She is also very involved in the Alzheimer’s Association raising $52,000 in 2022 for the Alzheimer’s Association.