Senior Home Care Cooperative

The Senior Home Care Alternative

The Senior Home Care Alternative has three goals:

1. Develop a Senior Home Care Cooperative in the Chicago area;

2. Assist the Senior Home Care Cooperative, once it has been established, to successfully implement this new model of care;

3. Promote this model of the Cooperative and assist others in developing similar cooperatives.

NOTE: The Senior Home Care Alternative is a separate and distinct organization from the Senior Home Care Cooperative.

• The Senior Home Care Alternative is to be a non-profit organization which will function to assist the Senior Home Care Cooperative organize and operate this new model of care.

• The Senior Home Care Cooperative is a corporation which will be formed by the families who are joining together to provide housing and care for elderly family members.

Additional Information

The Senior Home Care Alternative was started in 1996 to develop an alternative to a conventional nursing homes. The organization was founded by two nurses, Mary Signatur and Claudia George, who serve as its Executive Directors.

Mary and Claudia have worked extensively with older adults in both community-based and institutional settings. Mary worked for 11 years as a parish nurse and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Gerontology at Northeastern Illinois University. Claudia has worked as a nurse and as an instructor in nursing homes, and as a staff nurse in a geriatric rehabilitation facility. Both have also had personal experience with caregiving for elderly relatives.

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Senior Home Care Alternative

3819 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60613

Board of Directors

• Joyce Blackwell -- Certified Nursing Assistant, Bethany Terrace Resthome, Morton Grove, IL.

• Ellen Butkus -- Director, Senior Connections, Reba Place Church, Evanston IL.

• Delia Corrales -- Patient Care Technician, Resurrection Hospital, Chicago IL.

• Cheryl Darling -- Certified Clinical Research Associate, Kendle International, Elgin, IL

• Claudia George President -- Nursing Consultant, Division of Specialized Care for Children, State of Illinois, Chicago IL.

• Sondra Pittman Secretary -- Free lance writer, American Bar Association, Organic Crop Improvement Association.

• John Psiharis -- Executive Director, Greek American Community Services, Adult Day Care Program, Chicago IL.

• >Kathy Ross -- Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations, St. Vincent De Paul Center, Chicago IL.

• Mary Signatur Treasurer -- Case manager, Evanston Skokie Valley Senior Services, Evanston IL.

For more information please contact:

Mary Signatur at (847) 869-8409, or
Claudia George at (773) 248-2072.