Healthcare Professional Blog
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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