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God's Promise Dementia Care is my way of using my God given skills and training to help.

Sharyce Greene, R.N., C.D.P.

As a Registered Nurse, I have many years of experience as a Resident Services Director at Personal Care Homes and Assisted Living Communities.

I could not help but notice that during my 5+ years in these communities and the hundreds of residents whose care I managed, I only came across 1 or 2 residents who were people of color.

So why this drastic difference?

My research has shown me that there is no difference in the cases of dementia. So I dug a little deeper and I went into my own community and talked to some people that I knew and some that I didn't know and gathered all the data I could and ultimately revealed two barriers.

As a person of color, culturally, we handle dementia and the needs of cognitive changes and challenges differently.

Currently we as people of color do not readily open up about what is happening in our households. We do not open up about the changes we see with grandma, or grandpa or mom or dad. We do not know what to look for. Inherently we do not trust 'just anyone' with caring for our loved one.

So unfortunately, all too often, our loved ones and the family members involved go without the very helpful knowledge, and resources that would be most beneficial in the last golden years of their lives.

God's Promise Dementia Care, L.L.C. is here to bridge that gap and bring knowledge to everyone that is affected by dementia, not only people of color, but everyone. The second barrier I came across is financial. Currently, care in Assisted Living or Personal Care Homes is not covered by insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. You know what that means...out-of-pocket is the only option to get into an Assisted Living or Personal Care Home, other than Long Term Care insurance, which is usually a reimbursement.

The government doesn't seem to have any funding for placement in Assisted Living or Personal Care Homes. This leads to our current situation which is that Assisted Living and Personal Care Home spaces are a moneymaker for a lot of folks. Some even refer to it as the 'silver tsunami'. There is an old saying that 'it takes money to make money' and that is very true. Most times, some business person way up top looks at the potential profit and lack of guidelines for assisted livings and personal care homes and rehabs a building or

quickly throws a building together somewhere remote shines it up real pretty, give it a snazzy name, pays a pretty penny to the management team to walk around in a suit or heels and smile and then puts some untrained, underpaid people to care for these fragile residents and charges the residents 200x the cost it takes to run the place. If that's not enough, when the resident gets to be too much physically or runs out of money, they ship them off to a skilled nursing facility aka nursing home to live out their final days.

God's Promise Dementia Care, L.L.C. is here to bridge that gap and bring knowledge to everyone that is affected by dementia, not only people of color, but everyone. The second barrier I came across is financial. Currently, care in Assisted Living or Personal Care Homes is not covered by insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. You know what that means...out-of-pocket is the only option to get into an Assisted Living or Personal Care Home, other than Long Term Care insurance, which is usually a reimbursement.

The government doesn't seem to have any funding for placement in Assisted Living or Personal Care Homes. This leads to our current situation which is that Assisted Living and Personal Care Home spaces are a moneymaker for a lot of folks. Some even refer to it as the 'silver tsunami'.

There is an old saying that 'it takes money to make money' and that is very true. Most times, some business person way up top looks at the potential profit and lack of guidelines for assisted livings and personal care homes and rehabs a building or quickly throws a building together somewhere remote shines it up real pretty, give it a snazzy name, pays a pretty penny to the management team to walk around in a suit or heels and smile and then puts some untrained, underpaid people to care for these fragile residents and charges the residents 200x the cost it takes to run the place.

If that's not enough, when the resident gets to be too much physically or runs out of money, they ship them off to a skilled nursing facility aka nursing home to live out their final days.

One thing is true about the tsunami reference, and that is the growth rate of the elderly and the cases of dementia are climbing. The need for education, direction, safe placement for the people that are suffering from this disease is growing exponentially. At God's Promise Dementia Care we are here to offer an alternative to the pop up Assisted Livings and Personal Care Homes that are showing up everywhere. We have developed the home and family centered care model.

This is personalized care in a secure residential setting, a house, with individual, personal cognitive, physical and mental stimulation. There are no more than 3 people that require personal care needs in the house. Each resident is screened and placement is based on multiple levels of compatibility within the home. While we are not a clinical facility and do not provide medical care directly, as a Registered Nurse and a Certified Dementia Practitioner I will oversee the

care needs of each and every resident. There will be a dementia trained staff member present 24 hours a day 7 days per week. The opportunity for God's Promise Dementia Care to grow is immeasurable and without limits. In closing, God's Promise Dementia Care is my way of using my God given skills and training to help out in what I see as an epidemic in our land. It is very hard for me to find people who have not been effected by this disease.

One thing is true about the tsunami reference, and that is the growth rate of the elderly and the cases of dementia are climbing. The need for education, direction, safe placement for the people that are suffering from this disease is growing exponentially.

At God's Promise Dementia Care we are here to offer an alternative to the pop up Assisted Livings and Personal Care Homes that are showing up everywhere. We have developed the home and family centered care model. This is personalized care in a secure residential setting, a house, with individual, personal cognitive, physical and mental stimulation.

There are no more than 3 people that require personal care needs in the house. Each resident is screened and placement is based on multiple levels of compatibility within the home. While we are not a clinical facility and do not provide medical care directly, as a Registered Nurse and a Certified Dementia Practitioner I will oversee the care needs of each and every resident.

There will be a dementia trained staff member present 24 hours a day 7 days per week. The opportunity for God's Promise Dementia Care to grow is immeasurable and without limits.

In closing, God's Promise Dementia Care is my way of using my God given skills and training to help out in what I see as an epidemic in our land. It is very hard for me to find people who have not been effected by this disease.

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sharyce@godspromisedementiacare.com