Until about three years ago, Residences at Vantage Point, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Columbia, had no housing units that catered specifically to seniors with Alzheimer’s ...
There was a higher death rate and rate of using hospice in residents with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia receiving memory care treatment at assisted living communities compared to those at ...
As dementia cases increase worldwide and memory care units find limited therapeutic options that help, increasing numbers are turning to medical cannabis.
Demand is high and rising for memory care—a kind of seniors housing specially designed to help people who live with dementia. The number of people who need the intensive services provided at memory ...
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Experts on long-term care believe the pandemic has laid bare some weaknesses in the system. A South Windsor family said one example is how they believe the town’s former mayor was mistreated at an ...
A longtime Butler County retirement community’s expansion of its assisted living and memory care unit is aimed at providing residents with an improved continuing care. Adding 36 units to Chesterwood ...
Fairview Developmental Center — a former state hospital reactivated as an alternate care site during the latest coronavirus surge — this week expanded to include a 50-bed memory-care unit for COVID-19 ...