Edmonds’ Cedar Creek Memory Care was among the Koelsch Communities named as an Innovation Leader and honored in the 2020 Maude’s Awards book of Innovations in Alzheimer’s Care – dedicated to enriching the quality of life for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their care partners.
Out of over 70 innovation leaders across the nation identified in 2020, the inaugural year of Maude’s Awards, Koelsch Communities is honored twice.
In the innovation category, Treating by Design, Cedar Creek Memory Care Community showcases generations of work by the Koelsch family to integrate friendship-making, freedom to enjoy the outdoors, and reminiscing tools into the built-design of every one of their communities.
In the innovation category, Cultivating Health, Canterbury Garden’s Memory Care Community exemplifies Koelsch’s groundbreaking work to implement in the United States evidence-based care techniques used in France, Japan, and other countries.
“We are incredibly honored to be named in the 2020 Maude’s Awards book of Innovations in Alzheimer’s” said Eva Arant, chief operating officer for Koelsch Communities. “For over 60 years, we have been dedicated to senior care and it truly is our privilege to engage our residents with memory loss in innovative ways and share joyful moments with each of them”.
Anyone needing memory care ought to visit this facility after the virus situation clears up; its a spectacular place with a first-class staff. My wife is signed up for it and will reside there when the need arrives.
Thanks for sharing this information about what appears to be a wonderful place. My late wife had a particularly horrible type of dementia called Lewy Body. It was only due to the knowledge and care of a wonderful lady, originally from Ethiopia, that I was able to rise to the task of caring for my wife in her last three years of life. It turns out Emebet had just opened an adult family home near my home right here in Edmonds. I lived with my wife in that adult family home for about two years. Emebet, literally saved my marriage and probably my life. God bless the sufferers and God bless the caregivers in our lives. We think we are invincible, but the truth is we all need each other.
Clinton: You certainly are to be commended for spending two years in an adult home with you wife. That most likely prolonged your wife’s life as well as very definitely making her final days more pleasant.
Congratulations, once more to the Koelsch family as well as to Cedar Creek memory care. They have an excellent program and I always look forward to referring my clients to them when appropriate.
Clinton and Ron: your personal daily care provided and devotion to your wives well being under difficult conditions is truly wonderful and inspirational. Happy Holidays.
Thank you very much, Mike. And we wish Happy Holidays to you and your family too! And to all of the other readers as well.