Doug Pace is the Senior Director of Long-Term & Community-Based Care with the Alzheimer’s Association. In this role, he provides strategic leadership in quality, person-centered dementia care in long-term and community-based care settings, including co-leading the development of the Association’s Dementia Care Practice Recommendations published in a special supplement of The Gerontologist. Previously, Doug was the Executive Director of the Advancing Excellence in Nursing Home Campaign, a national campaign to improve the quality of life and quality of care of nursing home residents.
Prior to AE, Doug was the Executive Director of the Long-Term Quality Alliance. Before joining the LTQA, Doug was the Director of the Long-Term Care Solution Campaign at Leading Age in Washington, DC. He returned to LeadingAge in March 2008 after 18 months as the Executive Director of the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care at The New School in New York, NY. Before joining the Commission, Doug was the Vice-President for Culture Transformation and the Director of Assisted Living and Continuing Care with LeadingAge. Prior to joining LeadingAge in June of 2001, Doug was the President of LeadingAge Tennessee in Nashville, TN. He received a B.S. in Business Management from Lipscomb University and is a licensed Nursing Home Administrator who ran a 210 bed multi-level facility including a SNF, NF, a secured Alzheimer’s unit and assisted living before joining LeadingAge TN. He serves as a committee Co-Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition and as the Chair of the Advisory Board at The Center for Excellence in Assisted Living at UNC.