Jisella Dolan
Founder and CEO
One for the Ages
Jisella Dolan is a global leader in aging, caregiving, longevity, and business with more than twenty years’ experience scaling home care, aging in place, workforce, healthcare, and the legal field. She has been recognized for her vision and expertise by many organizations, including receiving the United Nations and World Health Organization’s “Healthy Ageing 50 Award” as one of the top fifty leaders transforming aging around the globe. She was also selected by The Holding Co. and Pivotal Ventures for The Care Guild, which honors twenty-five influential leaders who are reimagining care in America. For sixteen years, Jisella led Home Instead + Honor Technology to be the world’s largest provider of home care services that empower people to age in place, with more than 1,200 locations around the globe, more than $2.5B in annual revenue, and more than 100 million hours of care delivered yearly. Home Instead + Honor are revolutionizing how we care for older adults through the unique marriage of high-tech and high- touch.
Jisella served on Home Instead’s Executive Team and led the Advocacy division, which advocates for aging adults and their families, ensures a quality care experience globally, transforms healthcare delivery, and shapes aging and home care policy around the world. She also led the organization’s social purpose work, including launching Home Instead’s national partnership with Meals on Wheels America to help end social isolation throughout the US.
During her career, Jisella has advanced movements nationally and globally to reimagine care, aging, family caregiving, workforce, and women’s leadership. Through this work, she has served in a number of leadership roles, including as a Strategy Officer at the World Economic Forum and on the WEF’s Global Future Councils for Healthcare and for Longevity; Steering Committee member for the Milken Institute’s Alliance to Improve Dementia Care; Board of Directors for FamTech.org and the Home Care Association of America; and member of the federal RAISE Act Family Caregiving Advisory Council, the Women’s Leadership Council for Women Against Alzheimer’s, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women community, G100 Next Gen, and Chief. She was selected to join the prestigious Global Coalition on Aging’s Advisory Council to advance innovative solutions and policy change to empower aging and caregiving.
Jisella is a sought-after speaker on diverse topics from aging, caregiving, innovation, leadership, healthcare, workforce, and the intersection of tech and care, including presenting at the United Nations, the OECD, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, SXSW, Reuters Digital Health and Future of Work, Milken Institute, Silver Economy Forum, American Society on Aging, AARP, World Ageing Festival, Dementia Forum X, Home Care Innovation Forum, and national podcasts. She has been interviewed by national publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, FastCompany, and Harvard Business Review. Before joining Home Instead, Jisella was partner at a global law firm.
Today Jisella is a passionate advocate in building a better future for family caregivers, older adults, women leaders, and workforce. She is founder and CEO of One For the Ages SM , providing consulting and advisory services to a variety of organizations who are advancing solutions to make the world a better place for all.
The challenges family caregivers face hit home for Jisella, as she is a mom to her daughter, while providing caregiving support to her late father, her late stepfather who suffered from dementia, and now her mother.