Meet Randalynn

Marketing and sales consulting to the senior housing industry

Kaye is the author of Senior Housing 101 and the driving force behind Elder Transitions, LLC. As the director of marketing for a highly-regarded senior living community in suburban Chicago, Randalynn Kaye has worked with and counseled hundreds of people searching various senior lifestyle options.

She is actively involved with the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) and Life Services Network (LSN), as well as the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA).A sought-after speaker, Kaye is regularly interviewed for her expertise on issues facing today’s seniors and their families. She has been featured as a senior specialist in major media including USA Weekend, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and Superstation WGN, to name a few.

Kaye is also the adult child of aging parents. In 2005, she helped her husband’s parents through tough family conversations, research, the decision-making process and eventual move from their home of 50 years. And in 2006, when a severe stroke left her own father needing serious care, she managed his transition, eventually moving her parents into her own house as they prepared to move to a retirement community nearby. With the help of her family, she then handled the continued decline of her father's health, hospice, his death and ultimately, helping her mother move on with life—learning lessons no one truly understands until they've experienced the process first-hand.

Randalynn currently lives in the Chicago area with her husband and close to her mother and mother-in-law. In addition to her work in the senior housing industry, she is an avid gardener, studies ballroom dancing with her husband (who is nearly a foot taller than her), and is occasionally visited by her sons, a 30-year old jazz musician from Manhattan and a 25-year old snowboarder from Colorado.

She is always interested in learning about the journeys of other adult children and seniors going through this transitional process. Please feel free to email her and share your questions, thoughts, and stories.