So important to memory care is digging deep, learning about people as individuals, their routines, interests, passions, finding connections and sparking and empowering them. There’s still a lot of living to do when you have Alzheimer’s.

You have to check out this article Ecumen colleague Scott Allan just shared from the Wall Street Journal. Our colleagues at Silverado Senior Living in California are using golf as an Alzheimer’s therapy tool.

John Daly (not the pro golfer, but director of the University of California at San Diego’s geriatric fellowship program) says skills like swinging a golf club or playing a musical instrument are often some of the last memories people with Alzheimer’s lose.

What a great new innovation using one of the world’s oldest games.