Dr. Allison Ostroff is a board certified physician in internal medicine and geriatrics. She studied medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by a primary care/internal medicine residency at Yale and completed her training in geriatrics at Mount Sinai school of medicine in New York City. She has been practicing geriatrics for the last 18 years in Connecticut. Initially she worked in primary care geriatrics followed by opening several geriatric assessment centers in lower Fairfield County and creating a home visit program as well. She’s collaborated with the Stamford hospital emergency room to create a geriatric emergency medicine program, as well as to intensify their inpatient consultative service. She currently is employed as the chief medical officer at Mozaic Senior living is the medical Director at Mozaic Jewish life where she cares directly or indirectly for nearly 300 residents, the majority of whom suffer from dementia. 
 
Allison‘s focus has always been on the diagnosis and clarification of type of dementia, caring for both the patient and the caregivers alike and also comfort and quality of life as a person health issues progress. Allison‘s mother, Irene, was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 58 and she passed at the age of 70. Allison had a direct role in the last two years of her life and has experienced the heartbreak and ongoing loss that is experienced as a loved one loses their memory. 
 
She has been on the board of the Alzheimer’s Association, Hilarity for Charity and caring kind. She has raised tens of thousands of dollars for various organizations and is very passionate about her work. Personally, she is married, has twin 12-year-old girls and a pug named Ike. For right now she enjoys any downtime she can find but does love to travel and is quite honored to be named as one of Caringkind’s 100 women of impact.