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Lesley Mills is a Berkeley fellow at Yale and the owner of five Griswold Home Care offices that supply 500 caregivers for homecare in Connecticut. Griswold Home Care is a non-medical homecare company referring caregivers who provide personal care, homemaking and companionship to the elderly and infirm. Mills has created and funded a private foundation, LifeTales, that matches elders with aspiring writers and pays them to write and publish stories. Ms. Mills has been: a recipient of the SBA Connecticut Businessperson of the Year; an international Athena Award winner and she was selected from 230,000 members of the International Franchise Association as the 2001 Franchisee of the Year. She has been the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce’s Business Leader of the Year, past president of the CT chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, the largest of its kind in the country, and chaired “From Vision to Innovation” for Women ‘s Health Research at Yale. She hosted a public affairs radio show on a CBS affiliate for 10 years and is a frequent national keynote speaker on eldercare and end-of-life issues. Mills has presented for the American Medical Records Association, American Health Association, National Blue Cross, Pan-American Health Association, World Health Organization, the Connecticut Alzheimers Association, the Connecticut Parkinson’s Association and many state medical societies. An award winning gardener and historic home renovator, Mills was the 2017 Merit Award winner from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Renovation for saving the 1740 Sanford-Bristol house in Milford, Ct. Lesley’s partner is Joseph Hartman; she has a son, a daughter and 4 grandchildren.