New ‘Memory Farm’ Offers More Active Style of Dementia Care

When Johanna Jameson began exploring memory care as a research subject for her doctoral dissertation, she returned time and again to gaps in care service, and the difference between physical needs and cognitive ones. Jameson, a care consultant at Alzheimer’s Association out of their national office in Chicago, recognized that the care industry too often […]

Silverado Pilots New Program to Reduce Parkinson’s Stigma

Irvine, California-based senior living provider Silverado has launched a new pilot program to maximize functioning for its residents living with Parkinson’s disease, as well as to help reduce the stigma that surrounds the disease and other movement disorders. So far, the new program is being piloted in one community in Chicago and one in Houston. The new program […]