PA Link to Aging and Disability is a program intended to help seniors and individuals with disabilities understand what services are available in the community and help them through this oftentimes complicated and confusing system. It might seem that PA Link to Aging and Disability is confronted with an impossible task. After all, how in the world could we make something on such a large scale more streamlined and easier for our consumers? One of the most important ways PA Link helps the process is through our commitment to working with organizations in the community and providing much-needed professional trainings and educational opportunities right here in our own backyard. If you remember
If it’s on Facebook, it has to be true, right? A few days ago I was swiping through my feed and a video caught my attention. It was suggesting Americans should help those with dementia the same way as the Netherlands and other countries are beginning to do. My curiosity was peaked and I clicked on the video to watch seniors walking outside along a street, shopping in a grocery store and comfortably sitting in what appears to be their own living room. These seniors had Alzheimer’s Disease and were all residents in a government-subsidized “dementia village” called Hogeway Village in the Netherlands. The video was a clip from a documentary exploring how the design of a care facility impacts re
