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week, provides about 10 different activi-
ties, from music therapy to exercise, to
card games and balloon volleyball, and
serves a kosher lunch.
Another Dorothy and Peter Brown
Center, a 7,000-square-foot freestanding
building, is under construction on the
Jewish Community Campus in West
Bloomfield. The building will be corn-
pleted in January 2000 and in use by
mid-February. Its capacity will be 70 to
90 people a week.
orothy Brown saw the
effects of the disease, not just
to her father who had
Alzheimer's, but to her
mother who cared for him.
"They didn't have adult day care cen-
ters or even knew what the term 'care-
givers' meant 40 years ago," she said.
Now the times have changed but the
problem is the same.
"It's a nightmare for the
caregivers," she said. The CO
people who are sick are the
ones taken care of. It's the
caregivers who are captive,
and that's why I wanted to
help."
Help came in the form
of the Jewish Community
Adult Day Care Program at
the Dorothy and Peter
Brown Center in the Rose
and Sidney Diem Building
of the Jewish Vocational
Service in Southfield. The
3,500-square-foot center
opened in a dedication cer-
emony held Sept. 1.
The center, which can
Rabbi Avie Shapiro of Jewish Home and Aging
handle 20 persons with
Services says a blessing before affixing the mezuza at
dementia disorders at a
the Dorothy and Peter Brown Center.
time, or 35-40 clients a
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Dorothy Brown, JVS President Dennis Bernard and Peter Brown during the award
presentation ceremony