Dee has affectionately been called "The Queen of Seniors," with more than 20 years of experience as a writer, photographer and publicist in the field.

Her clients are Retirement Communities, Nursing Homes, Independent Living and Active Adult Communities, Rehabilitation, Assisted Living and Continuing Care facilities and Senior Health Care Centers.

They do (or have) included:

• Royal Management Corporation
• Irmco Property & Management Corporation/
  North Shore Hotel
• Willow Falls Active Adult Community
• Barton Senior Residences
• Ashley Management
• Lexington Health Care Centers
• Lexington Square Retirement Communities
• DDM, Inc., specializing in interior design for senior living facilities and the development and start-up management for retirement communities.

Locations include: Chicago, Schaumburg, Algonquin, Evanston, Des Plaines, Lombard, Tinley Park, Wheeling, Rantoul, Crest Hill, Elmhurst, Orland Park, Chicago Ridge, LaGrange, Streamwood, Bloomingdale, Zion and Lake Zurich.

Dee keeps in continual contact with administrators, client service directors, activities personnel, nursing staffs, doctors and non-profit organizations to maintain a consistent and steady wealth of story possibilities for public awareness efforts. To maintain a flow of fresh features, she is alert, attuned and astute to every possible story, photo opportunity and newsworthy connection which can be made with, or for, her clients.

Commended by organizations and individuals for her "attention to the senior market," Dee was also the recipient of a Personality Profile Award from the North American Mature (NAMPA) Publishers Association. Her work in this field has been published in The Chicago Sun-Times, Cover Stories for Senior Life in Indiana; Cover Stories for Senior News in Illinois. Daily and weekly papers include The Daily Herald, Lerner-Pioneer Press, The Star, The Chicago Suburban and Suburban Chicago newspaper chains and hosts of locals and independents in her target readership areas. Dee's photographs and stories are also used by her clients in their corporate literature and on their web-sites.

"I like to see my work all over the place," says Dee,"...and love to surprise clients by having my projects appear in wide varieties of publications whenever possible. I've published senior living stories in Polish, Latino, German, Korean and Greek magazines and newspapers. Stories and
photos have been printed in national speciality publications ranging from Mary Beth's Beanie World Magazine to Black Belt Self Defense Magazine. It's fun."