Juniper Communities is making progress in its goal to have all staff within the company’s Wellspring memory care program this year trained as certified dementia practitioners (CDP). Bloomfield, New Jersey-based Juniper manages 15 memory care communities with its Wellspring program focusing on brain health, wellness and support for older adults living with dementia and cognitive […]
Category: Memory Care
More than ever, senior living providers are taking steps to address brain health and rising resident acuity in memory care operations. Memory care is evolving to serve residents with greater clinical acuity and early onset of cognitive change in younger, older adults. Providers – who have historically shaped operations around the needs of residents living […]
Priority Life Care is growing its memory care program to focus its model on a research-based method in an effort to gain more emotional understanding and empathy in dementia care. Today, Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Priority Life Care oversees a memory care portfolio that includes 28 full-continuum communities with memory care segments and four standalone memory […]
Judson Senior Living is rebranding its membership model and starting new development to expand the company’s reach while meeting memory care demand. Judson’s leaders recently rebranded the company’s Judson at Home membership program, which allows older adults who don’t live on one of the organization’s three senior living campuses to access dining, wellness amenities and […]
Certus Living is launching a new wellness program and bolstering its memory care program in an effort to keep up with the rapidly changing senior living customer base. Certus Living operates five communities in the Midwest and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The company recently applied for and received a trademark for the phrase “living life by design,” based on […]
Epoch Senior Living is continuing to grow in 2026, including with the launch of a new brand to support recent acquisitions and expanding their renowned Bridges memory care program to a new brand. Epoch Senior Living Chairperson Laurie Gerber took over as the company’s top leader in 2023 following the death of her husband and former Epoch […]
Sagora Senior Living is investing in new training for staff within its Pathways memory care program in an effort to better educate staff, families and the public about dementia and cognitive change. The operator launched the “Dementia Live” program last month. It uses immersive experiences in training modules that are built to create empathy and […]
Not-for-profit senior living provider ThriveMore is moving ahead with a development plan to bring a new model of memory care that enables couples to remain together in the same residence when one spouse is living with dementia. Based in North Carolina, ThriveMore currently operates three life plan communities across the state. The EverTogether Residence is […]
HarborChase Retirement Associates (HRA) recently overhauled its memory care culinary program to support cognitive health and use evidence-based principles that keep residents well. The program is currently in a pilot phase, with future plans to rollout the program across all HRA memory care communities to improve the wellbeing of residents living with dementia, with the […]
A nonprofit aging services organization is committed to helping bring more nonpharmacological engagement programming to older adults living with dementia. Through the I’m Still Here Foundation’s innovation program, the nonprofit offers grant funding of up to $12,000 to individuals, organizations and nonprofits to support innovative programming that improves dementia care. “What we’re really trying to […]
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