Senior Care Entrepreneur | Assisted Living Consultant | Senior Housing Developer | Founder of SSM Advisory, Senior Service Maps & SSM Management

Perhaps the only thing worse than becoming sick while elderly is becoming sick, elderly, and alone.

For more than 18 years, Kwame Tanner has dedicated his career to improving the lives of seniors and transforming the senior care industry. As the Founder and CEO of SSM Advisory, Senior Service Maps, and SSM Management, Kwame has built a reputation as one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s leading experts in assisted living development, senior care operations, and senior housing entrepreneurship.

Kwame’s journey began in Baltimore, Maryland, where he overcame challenging circumstances to graduate from Baltimore City College High School and Morgan State University. While attending Morgan State, he became one of Baltimore City’s youngest certified general contractors and began revitalizing neighborhoods by renovating distressed properties throughout the city. His passion for community development led him to become a board member of the Charles North Community Association, where he worked to improve housing and resources for local residents.

A life-changing experience altered the course of his career when he lost a close elderly mentor who lacked immediate family support during his final years. Recognizing the growing need for quality senior housing and compassionate care, Kwame shifted his focus toward serving the aging population.

Over the past 18 years, Kwame has successfully developed, owned, operated, and managed assisted living facilities, home care agencies, and senior care businesses. Through his companies, he has helped hundreds of seniors receive safe, dignified, and high-quality care while helping families navigate difficult healthcare decisions.

Today, Kwame is the founder of:

SSM Advisory

A consulting and coaching firm that helps entrepreneurs start, license, acquire, and grow assisted living facilities and adult day care centers. Through consulting, coaching programs, training, and hands-on support, SSM Advisory has helped aspiring operators successfully enter the senior care industry.

Senior Service Maps

A senior care referral platform designed to help families, healthcare professionals, and social workers find assisted living facilities, memory care communities, adult day programs, home care providers, and other senior services. Unlike traditional referral agencies, Senior Service Maps focuses on connecting seniors with the right care providers rather than steering them toward the highest bidder.

SSM Management

A professional management company that provides operational oversight, consulting, compliance support, staffing guidance, and management services for assisted living facilities and senior care organizations.

As a nationally recognized assisted living consultant and senior care entrepreneur, Kwame frequently advises investors, healthcare professionals, real estate developers, and aspiring operators on topics including:

• Assisted Living Facility Licensing
• Adult Day Care Startup Consulting
• Assisted Living Facility Operations
• Senior Housing Development
• Assisted Living Acquisitions
• Healthcare Real Estate
• Regulatory Compliance
• Senior Care Marketing
• Occupancy Growth Strategies
• Business Planning and Startup Coaching

His unique combination of hands-on ownership experience, operational expertise, and industry knowledge allows him to provide practical guidance that goes far beyond theory. Unlike many consultants, Kwame has personally built, operated, managed, and scaled senior care businesses from the ground up.

His mission remains simple: to improve the quality of care available to seniors while helping the next generation of senior care entrepreneurs build successful and sustainable businesses.

Whether developing innovative senior care solutions, coaching new assisted living owners, managing healthcare operations, or advocating for better outcomes for aging adults, Kwame Tanner continues to be a driving force in the senior care industry.

Kwame is an active member of:

National Association Of Social Workers

American Nurses Association

Home Care Association Of America

Better Business Bureau