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Affiliated with the Hoag Neurosciences Institute |
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ALZHEIMER’S FAMILY SERVICES CENTER IS CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO ORANGE COUNTY! |
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30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Alzheimer’s Family Services Center (AFSC) is proud to celebrate 30 years of service to the Orange County community in May 2010. Below are highlights of some key accomplishments during our proud history.
1980 A small group of visionary community leaders who wanted to make life better for elders with Alzheimer’s disease founded AFSC.
1985 AFSC becomes one of the first state-designated Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers (ADCRC) in California and remains the only ADCRC in Orange County. Given its dementia specific capacity – in staff, programming, and facility – AFSC is able to provide care for persons from the earliest to most advanced stages of dementia, even after discharge elsewhere for difficult-to-manage behaviors such as wandering.
1999 On July 12, 1999, AFSC relocates from a closed school setting to a state-of-the-art facility, built specifically for dementia care in partnership with Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. AFSC develops the New Connections Club, leading the field of dementia care in the expansion of services to a growing population of individuals being identified with early Alzheimer’s disease.
2006 AFSC becomes affiliated with the new Hoag Neurosciences Institute.
2008 AFSC introduces Memory Care Tools at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian to calm agitated, confused elderly patients. So successful at preventing the use of physical restraints, the Memory Care Tools were adopted as a standard of care and taken hospital-wide in 2009.
2009 AFSC receives national recognition for JumpStart, a weekly ongoing support group for persons in the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia and their care partners.
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