Dawn Platt is a dementia care strategist, educator and advisor whose work spans direct care, family guidance, staff training, program development and national senior living leadership. Across more than three decades, she has helped families, professionals and organizations better understand dementia and respond with greater clarity, consistency and compassion.
Her experience includes leadership across 205 communities in 39 states, the development and advancement of signature memory care programs, and education for teams supporting people living with dementia every day. Today, Dawn brings that experience directly to families through private dementia coaching and to organizations through consulting, training and strategic advisory support.
Leadership across multi-state senior living organizations, translating dementia care standards into consistent everyday practice.
Creator and leader of signature memory care programs including Luminescence, SHINE and GLOW, with a focus on person-centered care and real-world implementation.
NCCDP and Florida ADRD trainer, educator and advocacy contributor supporting stronger dementia care knowledge, practice and standards.
A practical approach shaped by the needs of families, frontline caregivers, clinical teams and senior living executives.
Dawn continues the conversation through The Disappearing Mind, sharing practical dementia education and conversations with experts, caregivers and families.
Dawn’s work has been recognized and referenced by industry publications, professional organizations, leadership associations and public records spanning more than a decade.
Selected for Senior Housing News’ 2025 Memory Care Innovation Awards class, with Dawn listed as National Director of Memory Care Programs at Discovery Senior Living.
Featured discussing science-based programming, staff training and the strategy behind scaling memory care across a national portfolio.
NCCDP recognizes Dawn as a Certified Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Care Trainer (CADDCT) and notes her national Memory Care leadership overseeing SHINE®.
Named by the Florida Senior Living Association among its 2025–2026 Board of Directors, Advisory Board and Alternates roster.
Her professional testimony was cited in a Florida appellate decision involving assisted-living elopement assessment requirements.
Quoted as a regional trainer for Legend Senior Living on the use of PARO robotic therapy and its potential role in dementia care.
A dedicated industry profile examining Dawn’s career, dementia care leadership, program strategy and approach to evolving Memory Care needs.
Featured by FHCA as an AHCA Joint Training speaker, highlighting her national Memory Care leadership, training work, advocacy and conference experience.
Named in a peer-reviewed Alzheimer’s & Dementia publication among members of the Alzheimer’s Association Dementia Care Provider Roundtable.
The people who have worked alongside Dawn know her impact firsthand. Their words reflect the expertise, compassion and dedication she brings to dementia care, from supporting individual families to shaping programs and advancing the industry nationwide.
