Connecting People with the Best in Healthy Aging & Senior Care Solutions

About Gilbert Guide

Established in 2004, Gilbert Guide is the leading senior care website where families can find practical solutions, expert information and the most comprehensive senior housing guide and homecare directory for aging parents and loved ones.

Originally started as a groundbreaking senior care and housing guidebook, Gilbert Guide was founded on the concept that quality matters. Gilbert Guide helped shape the aging industry by being the first and only company to have experts visit and review every care provider in six major territories across the U.S. Today, Gilbert Guide has expanded to offer consumers across the nation solutions to their senior care and aging issues.

In order to truly help any American with senior care issues, Gilbert Guide’s nationwide coverage was paired with a holistic approach—all in an easy-to-access online platform. The site provides its users not only with the most comprehensive senior care directory on the web, but also a direct line to extensive expert advice and quality assessment tools that help them conduct their own “expert” evaluations of providers.

Think of Gilbert Guide as your caring and trusted partner that works together with you throughout every stage of the process, providing information and resources when you need it most.. Expert Columnists regularly contribute their knowledge and insights in order to assist our readers, who by in large are adult children who are helping their aging parents. We tackle the topics that nobody else discusses—from the very pragmatic to the very sensitive—so that our readers come away feeling educated, empowered, understood and armed with the best information available.

Everything You Need in One Place

Today, there are many websites that help people deal with one aspect of getting older, whether it is housing, such as assistive living or nursing homes, financial services and insurance for the senior market, legal issues with aging, senior health and wellness or any issue faced by those aging or with aging parents.

By bringing resources under one roof, we can offer you the most complete source for senior care, aging issues, housing options, homecare services, and more. We even license our content to select organizations for publication on their websites, because our goal has—and will always be—to educate the public so that they can find the best quality of care and services.

Gilbert Guide Connects You With All Your Options

We have collected all the information and resources you need to create solutions that suit you or your aging parent’s unique needs:

• Our easy-to-search National Senior Care Directory allows readers to identify options in every state across the country. Search our senior care housing and services listings.
• Use our Quality Assessment Tools. Readers can leverage our experience and materials to conduct their own "expert" evaluation or providers. Learn more about Communities and Care Providers.
• Get Expert Advice. We offer our readers support with any senior or aging issue, walking them through senior care basics, ways to develop a care plan, the issues that affect their daily lives and more. Explore our Expert Columns that cover a wide array of topics.

Gilbert Guide Team

Meet the dedicated staff behind Gilbert Guide publications.

Jill Gilbert
President and CEO
Jill brings extensive business experience to Gilbert Guide, stemming from fifteen years in the film industry. Before founding Gilbert Guide, Jill was Vice President in charge of Production and Development at Love Spell Entertainment, partnered with Columbia Pictures. In that capacity, she oversaw acquisitions and development and set up projects with funding, studios and production.

Jill began her film career at Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a BS in Business Administration.

Jason Gilbert
COO and CFO
Jason is adept at managing operational, financial and technical systems and developing strategic plans to help small companies reach their potential. Combining visionary measures with practical applications, he is experienced at designing solutions that meet customer needs.

As the General Manager of 1View Network (acquired by Digital Insight in 2000), Jason worked closely with such large clients as Wells Fargo Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase. Prior to that, at Avolent, Jason managed solution implementations at Bank of America, Intuit, AT&T, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Jason holds a BA in International Relations from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Harvey Gilbert, MD
Medical and Policies Director
Harvey Gilbert, MD, is a radiation oncologist with over thirty-five years of professional experience in the medical field, working with cancer patients stricken with life-changing illnesses. Dr. Gilbert has edited fourteen medical textbooks and co-authored forty papers in the field of oncology. He founded one of the first inpatient hospices in California, and started three outpatient cancer centers. Dr. Gilbert currently serves as an advisor to multiple hospices and in-home care agencies and is the medical director of the Ben Schaffer Cancer Institute in Lodi, California.

Dr. Gilbert received his medical degree from the University of Missouri Medical School in 1965. He then moved to the Bay Area, where he interned at Oakland Naval Hospital and was on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1969. Dr. Gilbert completed his residency in the Radiation Oncology department at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco as well as at UCLA Medical Center and Hospital.

Lara Belonogoff
Editor in Chief
Lara joined Gilbert Guide in 2006 as the Supervisor of the Copywriting Department, managing the workflow for Gilbert Guide’s staff of writers. Now in her role as the Editor in Chief, Lara liaises with publishers, writers and senior care experts to unite expert insights on multiple and diverse topics into one solid voice across the entire Website. As she aids in shaping the company and its direction, she is excited to be a part of the nation’s premier information source for caregivers and their families.

Lara has previously worked as a freelance consultant, helping to create and implement communication strategies for both small- and medium-sized businesses. She is also the author of several print titles, including several Baltic travel books and Random House’s Lithuania Culture Smart, a guide to business and social etiquette for foreigners in Lithuanian. She has set foot on only four of the seven continents and has never seen a moose in real life, but hopes to remedy both of those oversights of fate in the near future. Lara holds a degree in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School in New York City.