AFSC Community Center at the Cape Cod Mall

https://www.alzfamilysupport.org/

Alzheimer’s Family Support Center

Brewster, Massachusetts 

https://www.alzfamilysupport.org/

Created by caregivers, the Alzheimer’s Family Support Center (AFSC) provides an array of cost-free personalized services to families, individuals, and caregivers on Cape Cod currently living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases. The goal of the AFSC is to help families navigate the complexities and challenges they face across the span of these diseases, within a research-based, service driven social model.

One of the AFSC’s programs is the Alzheimer’s Family Community Center at the Cape Cod Mall. This unique site offers a multi-service resource within a local shopping mall setting, potentially the first one in the nation. The public shopping mall location, with its brightly-lit sign and great visibility, helps to reduce stigma about seeking help while increasing dementia care accessibility to people from across racial, ethnic, sexual preference and socio-economic backgrounds, including significant populations of Brazilian, Central American, Native American, LGBTQIA+ and rural community members.

 

Opening their doors for service in July 2014, The Alzheimer’s Family Support Center provides a comprehensive array of personalized services to individuals, caregivers, families, and communities on Cape Cod currently living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases. Services include psychoeducational caregiver support groups, conversation groups for people with ADRD, dementia-specific bereavement groups, education, cognitive health screenings, insurance support, phone support, counseling, care consultation and planning, respite services, and social and cultural activities. All services are provided free of charge, regardless of the ability to pay. The AFSC partners with local health, service, and cultural organizations in an ongoing effort to extend the service reach to all throughout the community.