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MEMORY CARE CONT’D
Ruth’s House’s memory-care residents take part in both indoor and outdoor activities intended to engage their minds.
Added Schelb, “we’re finding a lot more people suf- fering from memory loss at earlier ages. Early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s is something very real that a lot of people are experiencing, so we need to pivot and shift to make sure we can care for our folks here on the campus in any way, shape, or form.
“We’ve even got our home health dealing with folks with memory loss, or even end-stage Alzheimer’s in hospice,” she went on. “Unfortunately, we have seen more of it, across the board; I think healthcare in general has seen a lot more. And we want to be able to give our residents as fulfilled a life as possible.”
Many times, Halpern said, a senior-living facility is one of the first places family members contact when they suspect a memory issue.
“People reach out to us when they need help. And when do families need help? Often, it’s when they have a loved one who’s suffering from dementia and memory impairment, and they’ve tried to work with them at home. So we’ll work with them at home with our Spectrum Home Health Care, but then it can get to a point where you just can’t handle it. Maybe it’s the incontinence, maybe it’s the wandering and the risk of that, but we find that families are reaching out to us when they’re willing to give up their loved one. And it is a tough decision to place your loved one in a care setting.”
Even people with dementia who are able to live at home with family members can benefit from Wer- nick’s day programs, Halpern added.
“We were one of the first adult day health centers
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in Western Mass., back in the ’70s. We get a lot of people needing adult day care who have memory impairment and forgetfulness, and they are benefiting from being in social settings — and we offer social settings, be it in adult day care or assisted living, that helps people not feel isolated, and we help give them experiences that are failure-free.”
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Some of those experiences at Ruth’s House take place in a sensory room that allows residents to have
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We’re a person- centered campus, and
we deal with memory impairment across
our entire campus the same way. You take the approach that you’re meeting the person where they are.”
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