Healthcare Professional Blog
Making Moves: The Benefits of Memory Care for Patients, Their Families and Their Providers
Whether it’s helping to provide patients with a senior-friendly environment and meaningful engagement opportunities, to alleviate the burden of caregiving on families or to offer providers regular patient updates, there are many benefits to assisted living and memory care communities. We sat down with Amy Loomis, DNP, AGNP-C, and Danielle Whitacre, M.D., from Bloom Healthcare to hear their perspectives.
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How to Support Dementia Care with a Multidisciplinary Team
When it comes to dementia and memory care, people often look to pharmaceuticals for dramatic interventions. But the most impactful change we’ve seen after three decades of providing memory care services is in the care models themselves.
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The Three Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
To help better prepare your patients and families facing Alzheimer’s, we have compiled a patient-friendly overview of the three stages of the condition.
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Distinct Dementia Caregiving Styles Can Help Improve Intervention Strategies
Understanding the five distinct dementia caregiving styles can help clinicians tailor interventions to improve outcomes for people living with dementia and also their caregivers. Dr. Amanda Leggett shares her research and findings as part of Brookdale’s February Optimum Life® Continuing Education Series.
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Technology Helps Elevate Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care from a Program to an Experience
Technology can elevate our lives by helping to make them safer, easier and more connected. This is especially true for older adults living with dementia. With innovative tools, Brookdale can help improve residents’ well-being and quality of life.
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More than Memory Care: Lessons Learned From 40 Years of Providing Specialized Dementia Care
Calling specialized dementia care communities "memory care centers" has simplified and cleansed the description of the depth and complexity of care provided to residents and their families.
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After the Diagnosis: Helping Caregivers Cope With Dementia
Hearing the words “Your loved one has dementia” for the first time may come as a shock to friends and family. The dementia care experts at Brookdale shared this advice to help caregivers process the diagnosis after leaving the doctor’s office.
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How to Deliver a Person-Centered Alzheimer’s or Dementia Diagnosis
It’s not easy to tell a patient they have Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. Here are best practices to help guide the conversation, from the values that define Brookdale’s Alzheimer’s and dementia care program and services.
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The Disproportionate Impact of Alzheimer's
A report recently released by AARP and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) reviews years of data to help explain why women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
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All About a Good Night’s Sleep
Alzheimer’s and dementia researchers are asking the question: does getting too little quality sleep increase the chances of getting dementia later in life?
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Your Patients Can Age with Us
Your patients with dementia need more than just a place to help keep them safe; they need a team who understands their holistic needs and how to enable their remaining abilities.
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Specialized Dementia Care Settings
In this issues brief, dementia expert Juliet Holt Klinger, Brookdale’s Senior Director of Dementia Care, urges healthcare providers from primary care physicians to emergency room departments, to ask themselves, “are we dementia-friendly?”
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