About Us: The Dream Team
The Living Options management team consists of Patricia Broemser and Ime Ekanem. Pat and Ime bring to the company diverse backgrounds and experiences, and share a common vision of helping their clients find the best senior care facilities available.
Patricia Broemser, Founder and Partner
Pat comes from a family with a long history of providing service to seniors. Her great-grandparents donated the land and buildings to establish a home for senior living and care in Selma, California. Her grandmother and mother later volunteered full-time at the home.
Growing up, Pat understood the need for seniors to have a good, safe, and caring environment in which to live. Her background naturally led her to donate her time to the Council on Aging, primarily visiting shut-in seniors. She also volunteered at Community Services Agency (CSA) of Mountain View, Los Altos, and Los Altos Hills doing office work and assisting with senior care. As part of her effort, she took shut-in seniors to dinner every Saturday night.
A dozen years ago, she met Susan Diamond, Director of Senior Services at CSA. Susan said there was a great need for a business that would inspect, evaluate, and refer seniors to the approximately 1500 senior facilities in the area and recommended that Pat start such a business. Pat agreed to do so, and thus Living Options began.
Ime Ekanem, Partner
Born in Fresno, California, Ime returned to his parent’s native country in West Africa at a young age. He witnessed a politically unstable, impoverished nation which lacked the means to provide its citizens with basic living necessities such as clean water, education, roads, medicine, healthcare and shelter. Throughout his childhood, Ime saw poverty first-hand and the plight of the handicapped and elderly as they suffered due to inadequate care, often going without food, medication or shelter.
Ime decided that his role in life was to make a difference and help seniors attain a better standard of living. It is that passion that drives him to impact the community through Living Options. Therefore, since 2008, Ime has partnered with Pat to provide clients with quality referrals to the best facilities for seniors.
We contribute monthly to the following charities:
St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital is renowned for its pioneering work with children diagnosed with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses. All patients accepted at St. Jude are treated regardless of their family's ability to pay. For more information, click here.
Heifer International provides appropriate livestock, training and related services to small-scale farmers and communities worldwide, helping to alleviate hunger and poverty and care for the earth. For more information on Heifer's mission and work, click here.
The Smile Train works in developing countries, where millions of children with cleft lips and palates face very difficult lives filled with shame and isolation, pain and heartache. The volunteer doctors and nurses of Smile Train travel around the world to repair cleft lips and palates. For more information, click here.
Feed the Children is an international Christian nonprofit relief organization that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families affected by famine, war, poverty or natural disaster. For more information on how to help, click here.
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency, which works to reduce the number of deaths caused by cardiovascular disease. For more information, click here.
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