Elderwise presents a showcase of paintings from Day Program participants at a gallery in Seattle Center. Join us for an opening reception January 8th from 5-8pm.

Yes, and… does not require giving up anything. The Spirit-Centered Care approach is not an instead of all the traditional, and very valuable, ways of working with people with memory loss—it’s an add-on. When you add it to other approaches, the sum total is greater than the parts…

I consider the ability to go inward and be at peace to be a fundamental element of spiritual health and well-being. Having a peaceful death with a sense of life completion is so important….

Older adults often say to me, “I don’t feel old: I don’t feel different inside.” That’s because the essence of who we are doesn’t change. It does not age. My mother-in-law no longer remembers who I am…

I work with people with dementia. One of the gifts of this work is that I have learned that sometimes, when the cognitive aspects of a person decline, it allows the heart, which remains accessible, to expand. It is a joy to be in the presence of people with expanding hearts...