#dementia care

A Labor of Love

Most healthcare professionals choose their profession out of a personal passion to care for others.  It is a true labor of love.  There is great concern that reaches all of healthcare.  This is the depleting pool of professional direct care staff.  In reading articles and journal entries from 2018 and 2019, this was already of major concern in the healthcare industry.  The pandemic has only contributed to the shortage. However, with the system-wide healthcare shortage, this continues to be most challenging for so many nursing homes, homecare agencies, assisted living, and memory care communities.     Looking at the nursing home level of staffing needed to provide the required basic care

Alzheimer's Care

What is Alternatives in Alzheimer’s Care?

This month, I would like to explain what Alternatives in Alzheimer’s Care is and what I do as a Dementia Specialist.  Please see the video interview with Jon Younger, Owner of Assisted Living Locators below.  I speak to what services I provide as a Dementia Specialist. My professional journey over the last 24 years in healthcare allowed me to work with people living with dementia, their families, and healthcare professionals.  My personal journey began with my grandmother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. During the early years of my profession, my maternal grandmother Ruth began to display symptoms of dementia.  Her memory