LAS VEGAS: Dementia care providers are deeply divided over care delivery methodologies.
Existing seniors housing providers are attempting to reinforce their hegemony in the sector by either ramping up development of stand-alone memory care models, expanding existing facilities or building new ones to add memory care to existing senior housing communities.
Others are choosing to ape the dutch retro community, but all are caught in a care time warp. The care models are changing rapidly and most providers, despite their best intentions, are the institutionalizers of the the 21st century, ruling via restraint and chemical coshing…