WOODSTOCK – As Carol Louise mulled over quitting a steady job to start what she saw as her “mission,” she sought the advice of one of her four sons.

Louise, the soon-to-retire founder of Family Alliance, a day care center for the elderly, had worked her way up at a nursing home from staff nurse to head nurse to administrator. She’d learned about an adult day care center in Rockford and thought the local community could benefit from a similar service.

But she had doubts about whether it was the time to be making such a drastic move.