About
OUR PURPOSE
Recognizing the need to provide enhanced alternative living solutions, LifeVillageUSA is launching an innovative pilot project called “LifeVillage” for families with loved ones afflicted by various forms of dementia. The project is a unique alternative assisted-living model that will completely revolutionize how the health industry cares for people living with Alzheimer’s and dementia in the U.S.
LifeVillage offers a high-quality assisted-living village uniquely dedicated to providing personalized care for individuals with various forms of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s.
The LifeVillage model offers much more than just a memory care floor or wing, including openness, freedom, and daily companionship.
Uniquely dedicated to providing personalized care for individuals with various forms of dementia,
particularly Alzheimer’s. The LifeVillage model offers much more than just a memory care floor or wing, including openness, freedom, and daily companionship. We aim to break down barriers and abolish the notion that once individuals have dementia, their opportunity for fullness of life and self-determination is over.
No one wants to lose their independence, and LifeVillageUSA has designed a way to maintain it.
We provide an unconventional alternative to the current care model to meet the social, emotional, mental, and physical well-being of those living with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
We achieve this by eliminating the restrictions and isolation
often experienced by individuals forced into traditional nursing homes or assisted living facilities. Our dementia care approach will change the way families advocate for their loved ones, providing residents the unique option to live a dignified life with freedom and companionship while enduring the perils of dementia-related diseases
like Alzheimer’s.
LifeVillage is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to caring exclusively for people living with dementia
Where they can truly live their lives in a nonrestrictive and safe environment. No more clinical or institutional atmosphere.
Instead, LifeVillage brings openness and the ability to live “life” without confining walls. The open space village allows residents to face the challenges presented by dementia while continuing to explore their abilities and potential without physical barrier
Our Mission
To support efforts that improve outcomes and enhance the lives of individuals who have Alzheimer’s and dementia, including medical research, educational and training programs for caregivers, housing facilities, and group assistance for other like minded organizations.
Our Vision
- We believe that how you make patients feel is more important than their ability to remember what was said
- We believe that we can change how people with dementia are regarded and cared for in the US
- We believe that Alzheimer’s patients should be able to live with the disease not be forgotten because of it
- We believe we can provide a ground breaking care model for dementia sufferers
- We believe Alzheimer’s patients may safely roam about, living a dignified life without losing their freedom.
executive team
Sandra Fontenla
Renan Pierre
Mark Ramdas
governance
LifeVillageUSA’s founder, Sandra Fontenla, is a Columbia University graduate holding a BS in Mechanical Engineering, an MS in Applied Physics, and a Masters in International Business & Finance. She has worked in the health care industry for 20 years, the last 16 of which were dedicated to one of the nation’s largest cancer centers as a licensed and certified medical physicist, successfully leading and implementing clinical projects and patient care improvement initiatives.
Board of directors
Consists of Dr. Bernard Kruger, Paula F. Chapman, Michael Liu, and Nikolaus Koutoupis. Together, they provide many decades of experience in healthcare, clinical and urgent care, wall street expertise in financial investments, strategic planning, analytics, project management, and global facilitators. And this comes with personal experience and years of caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s.
Bernard Kruger
Paula F. Chapman
Nikolaus Koutoupis
Michael Liu
Your donation to this project will help us bring LifeVillage to fruition and provide a ground-breaking facility where dementia patients can live a dignified life with freedom and companionship while enduring the perils of dementia-related diseases like Alzheimer’s.
