Anat Louis, PsyD
Vice President, In-Home Services
Anat Louis, PsyD, is Vice President, In-Home Services at WISE & Healthy Aging and oversees all aspects of its Care Management Services including peer counseling to help coordinate care and services for seniors in their homes. Additionally, she will be assisting with outreach to community partners to promote agency services that help support seniors living at home.
Prior to her current role, Anat served as Director of Case Management, where she oversaw the quality of care provided by the social workers in our Care Management Program, managing staff, interns and peer counseling volunteers. She also represented the organization on various special task forces and committees within the community, working with a range of government and community service agencies to streamline services for older adults.
Before joining WISE & Healthy Aging in 2021, Dr. Louis worked at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, focusing on elder abuse prevention and family caregiver research projects. She also provided case management consulting to St. Barnabas Senior Services and to businesses entering the field of aging and senior services. No stranger to our organization, Dr. Louis also worked with us in her role as Director of Direct Services & Program Development at the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Aging where she was for eight years.
In 2016, Dr. Louis was an appointed member of the California State Assembly ACR Family Caregiver Taskforce, a position she held for four years, which addressed the challenges faced by family caregivers and made policy recommendations to the Legislature. And in 2017, Dr. Louis was also one of the core members of LA County Supervisor Hahn’s newly created FOUND taskforce, a groundbreaking countywide initiative to help locate individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia, or autism who wander.
Among her accomplishments, Dr. Louis worked closely with the Los Angeles Fire Department and with the L.A. Mayor’s Risk Reduction team and served as the Emergency Preparedness liaison with the Emergency Management Department and Department of Disability addressing the safety of older adults and persons with disabilities. She also served as a core support member of the UCLA Healthy Aging Partnership in Prevention Initiative (HAPPI), the UCLA Stroke Prevention Intervention Research Program (SPIRP), which were both health disparities projects addressing African Americans and Latinos medical needs. Dr. Louis also developed and started the Los Angeles Alzheimer’s Association’s first care management program and led a consultation line to assist physicians across Los Angeles County.
Dr. Louis holds a doctorate degree in clinical psychology with multicultural community clinical proficiency from California School of Professional Psychology. Her bachelor and master degrees are also in psychology.