LifeVillage
Life You Won’t Forget
LifeVillageUSA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that recognizes the need to provide enhanced alternative living solutions for individuals living with dementia. Our mission is to support efforts that improve outcomes and enhance the lives of individuals living with Alzheimer’s and dementia, including medical research, educational and training programs for caregivers, housing facilities, and group assistance for other like-minded organizations.
What is LifeVillageUSA?
- A revolutionary and market disrupting alternative assisted living option to living with Dementia
- An innovative and empowering approach that offers a safe and fulfilling way of life providing freedom of choice, dignity, and respect.
- A quiet and safe community that eliminates barriers giving families peace of mind and reassurance that their loved ones are in the most empowering environment possible.
Imagine A Village With
- Individual family cottages each with private bedrooms/baths and shared common areas such as kitchen and living room.
- Multi-lingual services offer residents the opportunity to dwell with others of familiar backgrounds.
- A theater, ice cream shop, convenience store, restaurant with outdoor seating, hair salon, and spa, gym, worship house, all surrounded by uniquely designed pathways along with an amphitheater overlooking a pond.
This Is LifeVillage.
DEMENTIA broadly, and Alzheimer’s Disease more specifically, is a staggering problem worldwide and it’s growing dramatically
people around the world suffer from some form of dementia
Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s dementia.
- Almost two-thirds are women.
people age 65 and older are projected to have Alzheimer’s dementia by 2050
What Board Members Say About LifeVillage
Dr Kruger is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology and brings over 40 years of clinical expertise to our team. He has a successful private practice in NYC and is the Co-founder of Sollis Health Center, a private emergency care clinic.
Why Have you decided to support the LifeVillageUSA project:
It sounds absolutely wonderful and something that has been needed for a long time. It would be amazing if we could get something setup like that. Even though there are a lot of people with dementia there is very little that is being done about it. I think its overdue in the US. There don’t seem to be any alternatives at the moment. It’s been overdue for a long time, hopefully
we can do something about it so it wont be overdue for even longer.
What distinguishes LIFEVILLAGE from other options available to people who suffer from Alzheimer’s?
I don’t even think you can compare them. One is sort of custodial care and the other is life care. One is sort of giving up and maintaining the status quo and the other is trying to improve a life and understand it better and continuing in some meaningful fashion.
What changes in the lives of patients with dementia might you see at a place such as
Life Village and why support it?
I think there are two kinds of changes: one for the individuals themselves, I hope, they would feel safer and freer and not feel like they are so much in a kind of fish bowl. I also think it will be great for the people who have to interact with them, and we can learn and we won’t be so uptight about how to deal with them. And my own feeling has always been that people generally want to get away from them (those with dementia) because they have nothing to say
or nothing to add and feel they are not penetrating them. This way we can learn just by watching them interact with each other and then we can learn something from that and use that to interact with them. I think it would be easier for care givers and would be easier for those of us who may be anticipating our own dementia someday and a whole meriad of things
this would benefit. I think most of the research in Alzheimer is cause and probably treatment, but I don’t see much research on how to enhance and get the most out of the life that they have. I think this would be very important and a different kind of research.
Michael Liu, whose mom suffered from Alzheimer’s dementia, has 20+ years of experience in internal consulting, strategic planning, analytics and project Management. He is a graduate of Columbia University- School of Engineering.
Why have you decided to support the LifeVillageUSA project:
I think there is an unmet need for both patient and care giver. For the past four years since my mom has had Alzheimer, I have been the primary caregiver. My siblings and I have spent so much time, energy, and money looking for how we can best take care of her and we don’t feel like we have done enough. And the main reason is not for the lack of effort, we just don’t think there are many options. We feel she is just trapped in her apartment with her aides, she can’t go out and I think Life Village will give her the option to live how she used to before she had Alzheimer. The ability to walk around, go shopping, and do all the things she was used to doing.
What distinguishes LIFEVILLAGE from other options available to people who suffer from Alzheimer’s?
I think there are two differences. One is the freedom to live the normal life, to walk around and freely move about. And the second is our peace of mind, we can’t be with her 24/7 so being in an environment where we know is safe for her, where she can walk around and be safe and we don’t have to worry about her getting lost or getting in an accident in the street.
Why do you support LifeVillage?
Main reason is that this is an alternative, a choice that we don’t currently have. Right now our option is to hire 24hr aides but still my mom would be confined to her apartment. I would recommend it because this will give her a better life and give us, her children, peace of mind that she is safe and living a full life.
Your donation to this project will help us bring LifeVillage to fruition and provide a ground-breaking facility where loved ones living with dementia may enjoy a dignified life with freedom and companionship while surrounded by a safe and nurturing environment.
