Amy Dennis

Amy Dennis is an Aging Navigation Strategist and founder of ALBA Aging Navigation Strategists, LLC, an independent practice helping older adults and families make sense of the decisions, systems, and changing circumstances that often accompany aging.

Amy brings more than 25 years of experience across social work, aging and disability services, caregiver support, advocacy, program development, and leadership. Throughout her career, she has worked at the intersection of individuals, families, community resources, and complex service systems, often in situations where needs cross traditional boundaries and no single provider is responsible for seeing the whole picture.

A significant part of Amy’s career has focused on family caregivers and the systems that support them. She has developed and led programs serving thousands of families, built partnerships across community and service organizations, and provided education and professional leadership in the caregiving field. As a Master Trainer for Powerful Tools for Caregivers, she has trained more than 400 class leaders from Washington and across the country. Together, these experiences have given her both a systems-level perspective and a close understanding of the practical, emotional, and relational realities families face as needs change over time.

Amy’s experience also includes senior living navigation, working directly with older adults and families as they evaluate care and housing options and navigate significant transitions. This work has given her an in-depth understanding of the senior living landscape while reinforcing a principle central to her approach: senior living is one option within a much larger aging continuum, and the right starting point is understanding the person and the situation rather than assuming the solution.

Amy brings a person-centered, trauma-informed approach to her work, grounded in self-determination, informed decision-making, and respect for the priorities of the individual. She understands aging not as a collection of separate problems to solve, but as an intersection of health, caregiving, housing, family relationships, finances, safety, available supports, and quality of life.

ALBA grew from that perspective and from Amy’s years of seeing how difficult it can be for older adults and families to find guidance that is both broad enough to consider the whole situation and independent of any particular service or outcome. Through ALBA, she provides independent, service-agnostic navigation and decision support, helping people understand what is happening, identify what deserves attention, explore their options, and determine a path forward with greater clarity and confidence.