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• ElderLink referral service, (248)
559-3300.
• Jewish Family Servic,e Home
Care Program: Southfield, (248)
559-1500; West Bloomfield, (248)
737-5505.
• Care Connection Care
Management, Jewish Family
Service, (248) 559-1500.
The following facilities offer day
andior residential programs for
people with dementia:
• Menorah House, Southfield,
(248) 557-0050
• Marvin and Betty Danto Family
Health Care Center, West
Bloomfield, (248) 788-5300
• Trinity, Continuing Care
Services, dementia units, (248)
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• Huron Woods, Ann Arbor,
734-712-5600
• Providence Adult Day Center,
located in McDonnell Towers,
Southfield, (248) 353-6280
• Cranberry House, Troy, (248)
813-0010
• Hutcheson Manor, Farmington
Hills, (248) 476-3798
• Laurel Park West, Livonia, (800)
994-4572
• Mary's Children Family Center,
Clawson, (248) 307-0242
• Encore Adult Day Care,
Waterford, (248) 623-6500
Joint Program
The Dorothy and Peter Brown
Program is jointly operated by JVS
and Jewish Home and Aging Services.
The program operates Monday
through Friday from approximately
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Clients partici-
pate in a variety of social and recre-
ational activities — music, arts and
crafts, dance and exercise, cooking,
gardening, and field trips. Kosher
meals and snacks are provided.
Penny Zack describes her mother's
growing memory disorder as "gradual,
but nothing dramatic." Esther
Goldstein, 87, had always been very
active, volunteering twice weekly at
the West Bloomfield library, playing
cards, and enjoying movies and dining
out with friends and family.
All of that changed abruptly one
night about six months ago.
"My mother had just returned from
a show and dinner with one of her
friends. She was sitting and watching
TV. Suddenly, she turned to me and -
asked when I was going to take her
home," said Mrs. Zack. She has shared
her West Bloomfield condominium
with her mother for the last five years.
"I knew right then we were in trou-
ble."
The next two weeks were spent in a
whirlwind of doctors appointments,
tests and evaluations. The diagnosis
was dementia; the prognosis
unknown. According to her doctors,
Mrs. Goldstein's condition could
worsen over time or remain the same.
Mrs. Zack began an immediate
search for a day program for her