The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
Agatha Christie / Art of Poets
The Support group for families living with dementia meets on the second Sunday of the month at 11:15, following the worship service. It is a time to share the difficulties and challenges of living with and caring for someone with dementia, to share resources, and offer suggestions of help. Members are from within the congregation and the community. Church membership is not required and the group is open to anyone traveling along this same long path.
Below is a list of resources that members have found helpful; it is by no means complete and additional information will be added.
Assisted Living/Memory Care Establishments
Brook Grove Retirement Village (Memory Care Unit)
18100 Slade School Rd
Sandy Spring, MD 20860
301- 260 2320
Olney Assisted Living*
16940 Georgia Ave
Olney, MD 20832
301-570-0525
Contact Cynthia Ward (cward@olneymemorycare.com)
* This facility offers respite care with a minimum stay of 2 weeks
Brightview Woodmont Senior Assisted Living and Memory Care
4907 Rugby Ave,
Bethesda, MD 20184
240-558-5605
Arden Courts Memory Care Community
4301 Knowles Ave
Kensington, MD 20895
301-493-7881
Adult Day Care
Loving Care Adult Medical Day Care
1015 Oakmont Ave A
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
240-477-6199
Case Management
Geriatric Care Counseling
gercarecounseling@gmail.com
301-320-5380
Aging Network Services
7910 Woodmont Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-657-4329
Diagnostic Services
Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment
Bay View Campus
5300 Alpha Commons Dr
Baltimore, MD 21224
410-550-6337
Georgetown University Hospital Memory Disorders Program
3800 Reservoir Rd
Washington, DC
202-784-6671 – new patients (must have been diagnosed)
202-295- 0540 – scheduling (patients must have been diagnosed and there is a several months wait for an appointment)
Local Community Organizations
Friends Club
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church
6601 Bradley Blvd
Bethesda MD 20817
301-469-0070
Therapeutic social program brings together active gentlemen in early to middle stage Alzheimer’s disease in a caring, safe, and secure environment
Psychiatric Care
Geriatric Psychiatry
Bruce Kehr MD (and others)
5920 Hubbard Dr.
Rockville MD 20852
301-984-9791
Forms needed for Respite care and Assisted Living Residency
RAT: Resident Assessment Tool
MOLST: Maryland Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
Need more information? Contact:
Mary Ann Toomey
Maryann.toomey@gmail.com