Mission Statement

Memory Matters is a community-based nonprofit organization which strives to be a center of excellence for persons with Alzheimer's and all forms of dementia and their families by providing daycare programs, support services and education in a compassionate and dignified manner.

Memory Matters serves the community in three ways.

         Our goals are:

• To provide a high-quality social day program for those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia
   
• To provide respite, support and resources to caregivers
   
• To serve as a community resource by providing education, information and outreach services
   
   

OUR HISTORY

In January, 1997 Alzheimer's Respite & Resource was conceived in order to offer a social day program for those with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. The program was funded through a Brookdale Foundation grant and established at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, operating one day a week. Founders recognized the unmet need in the community to help both the patient and the caregiver. Today Memory Matters offers a high quality social day program five days a week. We provide over 7,500 hours of daycare each year. Memory Matters continues to be a volunteer-driven organization with over 60 volunteers who serve on our Board of Directors, work at the respite program, raise funds, and serve as ambassadors in the community.

In 2009 Alzheimer’s Respite & Resource completed a successful capital campaign and moved into a new, state-of-the-art facility.  Not only did the organization change its location, it changed its name to Memory Matters to reflect the fact that people with ALL types of dementia are served, not only Alzheimer’s disease.