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Quietly making retirement easier since 2017.

We are a small team of planners, listeners, and logistics people. Most of us came to this work because we did it first for our own families.

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Our story

From a bench in Forsyth Park to a national network

Golden Age Mining Group, LLC was registered in the State of Georgia on April 12, 2017. The name is older than the company — it comes from a phrase Mica's grandmother used about retirement: "you have to mine your golden years for everything they're worth." The "Mining Group" stuck. The DBA, Golden Age Concierge, came two years later when families kept asking us "what do you actually call what you do?"

Today, nine years in, we serve a few hundred families across the Southeastern United States. We are deliberately small. Every member knows their planner by name and by mobile number.

Founder

Meet Mica Sanon

A second-generation Savannahian, a stubbornly practical optimist, and the reason this company exists.

Mica grew up on the west side of Savannah and spent fifteen years in hospitality operations at properties in Charleston, Asheville, and the Lowcountry before returning home in 2014 to help her aunt sort out a complicated move into assisted living. What she expected to be a six-week project turned into two years of phone calls, spreadsheets, hospital visits, and the slow, dawning realization that nobody was offering this kind of help — at least not in a way a regular family could afford or trust.

She founded Golden Age in April 2017 with one client and a Google Voice number. The phone is still hers. She still answers it.

Mica lives in Pooler with her husband, two teenagers, and a deeply unserious golden retriever named Biscuit. When she is not in the office she is usually walking Tybee Beach with the second-oldest member of the company.

The team

People who pick up the phone

Mica Sanon, Founder & CEO

Mica Sanon

Founder & CEO

Started the firm in 2017. Still personally onboards every new member.

Eleanor Whitlock, Director of Community Placement

Eleanor Whitlock

Director of Community Placement

Eleven years in senior-living operations. Knows every CCRC in coastal GA personally.

Renée Caldwell, Travel & Experience Lead

Renée Caldwell

Travel & Experience Lead

Former cruise-line excursions manager. Has personally vetted 100+ tour operators.

James O. Pennington, Member Advocate

James O. Pennington

Member Advocate

Geriatric care manager (CMC). Liaises with physicians, attorneys, and family.

Milestones

Nine years, told in small chapters

2017

Founded in Savannah

Registered as Golden Age Mining Group, LLC in April. First client signed in May. Office: a borrowed desk on Bull Street.

2019

DBA: Golden Age Concierge

Adopted a friendlier brand name and added the Travel Club, beginning with a small Charleston-to-Savannah river trip.

2020

Pandemic pivot

Launched a free weekly check-in line for over 600 isolated seniors in coastal Georgia. We are still proud of that year.

2022

Wellness program

Partnered with five local clinics and trainers to build a proper 55+ wellness program members could actually sustain.

2024

Family Advocate service

Added dedicated geriatric care management for families managing parents from out of state.

2026

Today

Two-hundred-plus active members, four full-time staff, one office on East Bay, and a long waitlist we are slowly, carefully working through.

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