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As a dementia-specific medical-model memory care center, Alice’s Clubhouse offers much more than just a cutting edge and stimulating day program for those with memory loss. Importantly, it lightens the responsibility that can weigh so heavily on the shoulders of the caregivers. With an onsite medical staff, and available services such as physical, occupational and speech therapies, dentistry, podiatry, and salon services, Alice’s Clubhouse eliminates much of the need to have to travel from necessary appointment to necessary appointment. The respite given the caregivers is as important to us as the quality of care provided to our members.
Alice’s Clubhouse was founded to help not only those affected by memory loss, but their caregivers as well. A gap in the healthcare spectrum was discovered when Alice’s Clubhouse President, David AvRutick, and his father were looking for some help in taking care of Alice – David’s mother – after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Wanting her to stay home, but receive the stimulation and socialization that is so important, the AvRuticks looked for a day memory care program, but discovered that there were no appropriate solutions in South Carolina – and few even in the United States. During this search the AvRuticks met Diane Sancho, now Alice’s Clubhouse Executive Director, who had been seeking to create such a facility. They joined forces to meet the rapidly growing need for new forms of care for those suffering a cognitive impairment and their caregivers. The result? Alice’s Clubhouse.
