Program Activities

YOGA CLASS meets outdoors when the weather allows. Memory Life Services members start the day with coffee and social time, and experience varied activities through the week, including memory exercises, crafts, live music sing-a-long, performances from guests, outdoor barbecues, holiday and birthday celebrations, dancing, and moreguests, outdoor barbecues, holiday and birthday celebrations, dancing, and more.

Program Director Josephine Brown has been with PSGDC for nine years. She has worked in all facets of our day services programs and keeps well-informed through attendance at local, regional, and national trainings for professionals in dementia care. In November 2008 she and former Executive Director Marianne Nicolosi gave a presentation about the Lotus Club at the Brookdale Foundation’s National Conference in Denver.

“They’ve saved my life!” says caregiver Lorraine Maddalo. After moving her 87-year-old mother in with her in the fall of 2008, Lorraine made call after call trying to get help with benefits and services. Finally someone referred her to PSGDC, she and her mother were invited to visit, and both have found just what they needed at PSGDC.

“My mother loves the people, and Josephine has helped with everything, from filling out forms to referring us to a hairdresser.” Lorraine has found that many activities of daily living are easier when she can remind her mother “you’re going to the Center tomorrow,” and her mother now attends three days a week after starting with two. “Be sure to write ‘they are like heaven’, says Lorraine, “because they are.”