Meet Our Consultants

Elder Care Referral Services, Inc. dba: About Elder Care (AEC) was established in 1991 and was the first full service consulting firm in the Sacramento area to help families evaluate senior care options and specialize in assisted care facility placements for seniors at no charge to the senior or their family. AEC care consultants provide information and personal guidance to caregivers and families and refer them to assisted care facilities where reliable care and assistance for a loved one is provided.

AEC is staffed with professionals, including a registered nurse, social worker and gerontologist, who have a wide variety of credentials and over four decades of experience in the senior and health care fields. Relevant experience includes health care, registered nursing, social services, Alzheimer’s and dementia, gerontology, nursing home discharge planning, assisted living facility management and marketing and board and care home ownership and management.

We are pleased to have you meet our consultants:

Jerry Schreck has a B.S. degree in marketing from Northern Illinois University and is president of Elder Care Referral Services, Inc. dba: About Elder Care. He founded AEC fifteen years ago after being a caregiver for his ailing father for over four years. He was instrumental in organization of the Sacramento chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, has authored numerous articles on elder care and is a frequent public speaker on elder care issues.

Linda Himan is a senior care consultant and has over twenty years experience working with seniors. She was administrator of a board and care home for eight years and has worked for many years evaluating seniors for assisted care placements. Linda worked fifteen years managing a group of small care facilities. Linda organized and managed an in-home care agency in Hawaii for three years. She supervised eighty caregivers. Linda was instrumental in getting a law passed to have Medi-Cal pay for care options for low-income seniors.