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Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc Receives Alzheimer’s Association Grant to Improve Respite Care for People Living with Dementia and their Caregivers in Norfolk
Norfolk, July 23, 2024 — Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc has been awarded $149,000 from the Alzheimer’s Association Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI) to enhance the quality and availability of dementia-specific respite care for people living with dementia and their caregivers in Norfolk. Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc is one of 21 recipients chosen to receive grant funding from nearly 200 applicants across the country. Funds will be used to create an innovative evening/night adult day care for people living with dementia as another alternative for respite care for their caregivers and the local Norfolk residents.
Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc is excited to be included in this elite group of community-based service providers,” said Erica D. Jones, PhD, Executive Director. “Caring for someone living with dementia can be overwhelming, but we want to create new memories as the brain changes. This grant will help us provide much needed dementia-specific respite care and services for people living with dementia and their caregivers living in Norfolk.”
In conjunction with the grant, Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc will also receive online training and ongoing technical assistance from the CDRI to ensure respite services are dementia-capable and to support sustainability. The CDRI will also collect data and evaluate the impact of these innovative projects from all grant recipients to inform public policy.
“We congratulate Silver Care Dementia Center, Inc on its grant and look forward to working with its team to help enhance respite care services for local dementia caregivers,” said Sam Fazio, Ph.D., senior director, psychosocial research & quality care, Alzheimer’s Association. “We intend to gain insights from each respite program we fund, ultimately developing a catalog of programs, tools and resources that will be easily accessible to interested caregivers and care providers.”
The Alzheimer’s Association created the CDRI earlier this year after receiving a $25 million grant from the Administration for Community Living (ACL), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Over the next five years, the CDRI will provide $25 million in grant funding to local respite providers and organizations to enhance the quality and availability of respite care nationwide. Visit alz.org/cdri to see the full list of this year’s grant recipients.
Funding disclosure
This project is supported by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $32,962,453 with 75 percent funded by ACL/HHS and $8,333,333 amount with 25 percent funded by non-government source(s). The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by ACL/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
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