About Us

Nancy Avitabile and Dorien Spelbrink started Home Care Match in response to clients requests for private workers. Rather than being a word of mouth referral source, they sought to formalize that process by starting a Registry Home Care Match in 2012. Home Care Match received their official New York City Department of Consumer Affairs license in 2012. With over thirty years of aging life care management experience, Home Care Match understands the unique needs families face when confronting the challenges of aging. Each family dynamic is unique and requires personalized care solutions.

Theodora Spelbrink, MA, CMC

Theodora has a long and well-rounded experience in working with both young adults and older people that she combines with innovative and creative ways of thinking about problems and solutions. Theodora has earned a BA and MA from the University of Utrecht in sociology and social psychology. She is currently the President of the New York Chapter of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers and a member of the Aging Life CareTM Association.

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Nancy Avitabile, LMSW, CMC

Nancy is the owner of Urban Eldercare, LLC and a founding partner of Home Care Match, LLC. Nancy is an LMSW, former researcher and Aging Life Care Manager. As a 6-year board member and current President of the Aging Life Care Association™, she has been featured on Thomson Reuters, “The Business of Managing Old Age”, has written for the Aging Life Care Association™ publications, “Inside ALCA” and “The Journal of Aging Life Care” and has been quoted in Consumer Reports, caring.com and seniorhomes.com.  In 2006, she was honored with the Outstanding Chapter Member award for the New York Chapter and in 2014, she became a Fellow of the Leadership Academy. Nancy holds an MSW, a BFA and BA from the University of Connecticut. She has a Post Masters Certificate in Gerontology from the Brookdale Center of Healthy Aging, where she is now an instructor.

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