History & Team

BA, B Comm. Founding member of Memory Lane Home Living. Mona has a background in Psychology/Sociology and the mental health field. Banking experience followed. While in university she worked as a Nurse’s Aide in a Long-Term Care facility. Mona is currently completing a Geriatric Certificate from McMaster University. She has also completed a year-long course in 2019 with Dementia Care Matters Course, to guide and implement important aspects of the "Butterfly Model of Care “into Memory Lane Home Living Inc. Recently Mona was appointed to the Steering Committee as an Elder Representative for Caregivers with the Provincial Geriatric Leadership Office (PGLO). Mona’s related work experience in LTC, her education, and her lived dementia experience with her mother, three aunts and one uncle were the motivation to implement evidence-based models of care that would provide a cost-effective way of improving the “quality of life” for families and their loved one’s with a dementia diagnosis.

Has spent most of her working life formalizing policies and procedures for a wide variety of organizations. She has a degree from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. She is pleased to be playing an active role in policy with MLHL. Karen has undertaken some dementia training and volunteered with Memory Lane for the previous three years and is now stepping up to a Board Director position. The creation of a collaborative living environment for women with dementia is what she wanted for her mother in Alberta. 

Faith is a member of the OCSWSSW and holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern Maine. Faith has worked with all ages in a variety of clinical roles including Outpatient Mental Health Clinician, Crisis Services Provider, and hospital Social Worker2/Case Manager. While facilitating groups for older adults diagnosed with a mental illness, she was deeply inspired by the supportive community they shared, the ways in which this improved their quality of life, and she never looked back. At the foundation of Faith’s motivation to improve quality of life for those with Dementia and their families, is her passion for cultivating each person’s unique strengths, eliminating the isolation that many older adults and their families face, and collaborating with others to improve services. Faith also draws upon her own family’s experience with Dementia, Toronto-based Dementia and palliative care trainings, and a commitment to life-long learning to be an effective advocate and contributing member of the MLHL Board of Directors.