This week marks a milestone for Joyce Remy and all of us here at IlluminAge. Joyce, our senior editor and content manager, is retiring after 30 years serving our clients.
Joyce has brought many talents to her work over the years, but none more recognized than her deep understanding of healthy aging and what that can and should mean for older adults and their families. Over her career as a writer and editor, she has literally grown with her subject matter as she has researched, observed, experienced, explained, and advocated for the practices and attitudes that can help us live longer, healthier, happier lives.
Messages from co-workers and clients Joyce has worked with make clear the huge positive impact she’s had and that she’ll be greatly missed. But on behalf of our whole team, we’d like to add our own thoughts on this transition.
On a personal note, it is true what our clients say: Your relationships with each of us and with our clients in their lives and their work have consistently been marked by personal warmth and engagement, as much as by professional excellence and dependability. You’ve treated everyone—those on our team and those on our clients’ teams—graciously and respectfully. It’s not an exaggeration to point out that you’ve been an anchor for so many others on so many levels.
And on a business note, we want to say here what we all know to be true. When we started IlluminAge (and many clients will remember us as “Caresource” before 2005), our mission was a simple one:
To support our clients in delivering accurate, easy-to-understand information about healthy living, aging, and eldercare . . . and by doing that to provide fuller, easier access to those resources to individuals and families all across the country.
You have certainly embodied and lived that mission, and for that we are deeply grateful.
There is so much more we could write. But we remember your editor’s advice to always “say it briefly, but clearly.” So, we’ll end by saying it’s been an honor and a pleasure to have shared this 30-year journey with you. We salute you and wish you and your husband, Pat, all the best in the years ahead.