Elizabeth Jacobs Distinguished Service Award

The Elizabeth Jacobs Distinguished Service Award is named for Betsy Chernau’s mother, one of our agency's founders. As a community leader, Elizabeth and others saw a need for a local nonprofit to identify gaps in services for older adults, then develop solutions. This led her to start and chair the Council on Aging of Greater Nashville, now doing business as AgeWell Middle Tennessee. Elizabeth continued to be an integral volunteer for our agency and the larger community until her death in 2007. All of us at AgeWell are grateful for her vision, compassion, wisdom and wit. She loved to say, "When you see something that needs to be done, you just do it." We couldn't agree more.