By Morgan Saunders, Gracewell Social Worker For many years the Eventide campus has offered an Alzheimer’s Caregiver support group open to everyone in our community for Alzheimer’s caregivers. We have a wide range of people experiencing the Dementia continuum who attend. At times we have those who are noticing memory changes for themselves and asking […]
Submitted by: Morgan Saunders, Gracewell Social Worker According to Alzheimer’s Association, experts estimate that up to 40 percent of people with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from significant depression. At the beginning stages of Dementia people often face the reality that they cannot do what they used to do and struggle to remember things that were once […]
Submitted by: Amy Schultz, Administrator Gracewell and Kara Webb, Assisted Living Director A group from the Eventide campus took the 3-hour drive to the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls to experience the Dementia Simulation house in January. The house appears to be a normal functioning house from the outside but on the […]
