Dementia – The Epidemic That Is Bankrupting Us.
It is an epidemic. It’s estimated that 5.4 million Americans had Alzheimer’s in 2016. The Alzheimer’s Association reports that every 66 seconds someone in the … Read more
The DAWN Dementia Blog
> Category: Designing Dementia Care
This category contains blog posts on how to best design a dementia care system.
It is an epidemic. It’s estimated that 5.4 million Americans had Alzheimer’s in 2016. The Alzheimer’s Association reports that every 66 seconds someone in the … Read more
Dementia villages are springing up in Europe, Britain, and Canada. These are Truman Show-style communities, where the residents are people who have dementia and everyone … Read more
One of the most difficult problems of aging is staying in contact with those we love. We are social creatures. We need to be around … Read more
We cannot always choose to age in place and be cared for in our own homes. Sometimes we need round-the-clock nursing care that is too … Read more
We hear a lot about the cost to Medicare of seniors returning to the hospital within days of being released. Here in Moscow, we have … Read more
The approach we currently use to care for people with dementia in the United States has a name. It’s called appropriate care. It hasn’t been … Read more