Goddard House receives grant from Alzheimer’s Foundation
COURTESY OF ALZHEIMER’S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America recently awarded grant funding to Goddard House in Brookline to bring Opening Minds Through Art, an intergenerational art-making program for older adults living with dementia, to underserved communities in the Boston area.
Building on success introducing and piloting OMA at the Goddard House assisted living memory support neighborhood in 2016, Goddard House Community Initiatives will use the $6,000 AFA grant to help launch its OMA in the Community program to help increase arts equity and access to underserved Boston-area older adults living with dementia. A priority is to provide OMA programs, preferably in English and Spanish, to nursing homes, adult daycare providers and other elder care organizations.
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BROOKLINE, MA For the past five years The Goddard House assisted living home has been helping older adults living with dementia express creativity through a program called Opening Minds Through Art. The award-winning intergenerational program pairs younger people with those diagnosed with memory loss and focuses on creativity. It s built connections and had therapeutic benefits for people living with memory loss.
Now, through a grant from the Alzheimer s Foundation of America, Goddard House plans to expand its program to help older adults living with dementia in under served communities nearby in Boston.
Subscribe Our goal, through providing access to the OMA program, is to help build bridges across age and cognitive barriers through the creation of artwork and new relationships, said Goddard House President Candace Cramer.
More than a year into the novel coronavirus pandemic, we aren t certain how many Ohio nursing home workers died of COVID-19.
COVID-19 made working in a nursing home one of the deadliest jobs in America, according to an analysis of federal data by Scientific American magazine. Nursing home staffers had a higher death rate in 2020 than logging workers did in 2019, Scientific American found. The only group that had a higher death rate in 2019 were fishers.
“It just leaves me speechless,” said Meghan Finegan, assistant communications director for Service Employees International Union, which represents around two million employees across multiple industries, including nursing homes.
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