Lauren Ward is Founder, President and Senior Living Advisor who brings a breadth of knowledge and experience serving seniors and their families since 1981. Because she’s been a Licensed Therapeutic Recreation Specialist for 26 years along with being an Alzheimer’s Support Group Leader in Adult Day Health for 3 years where she’s provided a milieu of recreation programs and therapies for seniors and the actively dying, Lauren brings to her clients a sensitivity and tenderness for what the families and their loved ones are going through emotionally and medically along with the tenacity for understanding the need for quality of life of the senior. Lauren also worked with a referral agency for 11 years until she decided to start her own company, Thrive Senior Advisors, where quality of life is also a focus for the seniors and their families.