Kelley Smith, VP of sales and marketing at CarePartners Senior Living, talks at Discovery 2019, the 34th Annual Alzheimer's Regional Conference. CarePartners operates seven dementia-dedicated senior care facilities in Washington. Sometimes intervention happens too soon — it has to be the right marriage of timing and where seniors are in their journey. The facilities, the Cottages, are four little cottages within a little village. There are certain core things people know, even if they can't describe it: they know when they are being micromanaged and treated like children, so we make them feel needed. The smaller the environment, the better they do, giving them a sense of community and freedom.

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