AGING-IN-PLACE SUPPORT • GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN
Helping families navigate aging at home.
Saving you time and planning so you can cherish the moments.
I specialize in aging-in-place support, helping older adults and their families navigate the challenges of staying at home as needs change.
From organizing care and coordinating resources to planning for future needs, I help take the guesswork and overwhelm out of caring for a loved one—so your family can spend less time managing the details and more time cherishing the moments.
Scroll down to see how I got here and my vision for a better option for families! If you are sick of unreliable in-home care agencies and you worry about the pain a move to a facility would cause, then consider the alternative I'm recommending to help your family find a better way.
You love them. But you can’t do it all.
Appointments, medications, meals, errands, care options, changes at home, conversations with providers—somehow it all lands on your calendar, alongside work and your own family. You don’t have to carry every decision alone. Together, we can organize what matters, find practical options, and take the next step with confidence.
A CALMER WAY FORWARD
Plan Ahead. Prevent the Crisis.
I specialize in proactive aging-in-place support and family care planning, helping you anticipate challenges, understand your options, and put a plan in place before you’re faced with an urgent decision.
Proactive planning—not crisis management.
My work is designed to help families get ahead of the “what ifs” of aging, rather than stepping in once a situation has already reached a crisis point.
Support that meets your family where you are.
There’s no one-size-fits-all way through a family transition. We’ll start with what you need now.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF HELP
You don’t need to uproot your loved one or to argue with family members. You need someone in your corner.
Breakthrough Family Solutions is not a home-care agency. I offer consulting, planning, advocacy, coordination, and practical support—personal hands-on care in the beginning to assess needs and then I hand over the plan who someone who is a great fit for your loved one. We’ll sort through options, find resources that fit and educate your family, and reduce the overwhelm so you can spend less time managing and more time being together.
A NOTE FROM MELISSA
Hi, I’m Melissa.
I know how quickly caring for someone you love can become a full-time role you never planned for. From personal experience and my professional work supporting older adults and families, I’ve seen how much easier the next step feels when there’s someone to help make sense of it all.
In the beginning of all of this when my own grandparents were struggling, I was clueless and didn't know how to help them the way I wanted. I had a baby at home and I did what I could to help take the burden off of my mom and relatives but I've never let go of the guilt that it wasn't enough. I was inconsistent and not always present when I was with them. If I knew then what I know now, we would have been in such a better place. It is my mission to honor my grandparents and help others who feel lost and overwhelmed like my family and I felt.
Since my experience with my grandparents, I've had multiple family members who have needed crisis management after cancer diagnosis at a time when life should have been slowing down for them so they could enjoy retirement. It is so hard to lose someone and still have so many questions to ask them because you were so busy managing their daily lives (alongside my own family and career obligations).
Also, along the way, I found my career life moving out of construction and I landed as an activity director at an assisted living facility where I specialized in preserving resident's minds and spirits to prolong a move to the memory care part of the facility. That's where I realized so many people would have been better off staying in their homes rather than regressing from a traumatic move. Could I find a way to revolutionize the way we look at our care options and prolong or prevent a move? I knew I could. And I knew this would be much more economical than having someone's life savings soaked up in a couple years at a facility. Most parents want to be able to age gracefully but also to leave a little something financially for their children, while minimizing the burden they put on their family. Companion care just makes sense in so many ways.
My role is to listen, organize, and help you move forward with a plan that feels right for your family. You can bring the messy, unfinished version of the story—we’ll start there.
A simple place to begin.
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Start with a conversation
Tell me what’s happening and what feels overwhelming.
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Get a clear plan
We’ll identify priorities, options, and practical next steps.
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Move forward with support
You don’t have to manage every detail alone.
LET’S BEGIN
Ready to Talk?
Tell me a little about what’s going on, and we’ll start there.
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