Rainmakers Press Release
For Immediate Release: March 13, 2008
Contact: Ellen Dunnigan
Phone: 317-753-7447
Email: ellen@AlzCareGroup.com

INDIANAPOLIS, IN: March 13, 2008 – Alzheimer’s Care Group announced today the launch of a caregiver resource network called, “Sollievo.” Sollievo, which means “relief” in Italian, collaborates with community resources to provide solutions and relief to family members caring for aging parents, aunts, and uncles who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The service extends in-home consultation, education and strategies, a 24/7 LIVE hotline, and community resources to ease the burden of caregiving.

Alzheimer’s disease affects one in four persons in our community. Over 30,000 family members and friends care for more than 19,000 people in our community who suffer from Alzheimer’s and related dementias. Most of these family caregivers are adult children, aged 45-55 years old, working at least part time.

Sollievo’s reach to family caregivers in metro Indianapolis who are caring for their aging parents at home is based on eldercare research affirming that an educated family caregiver keeps an aging parent out of long term care facilities one and one-half years longer than an uneducated caregiver, an estimated savings of ninety thousand dollars. In addition to that financial relief, Sollievo hopes to provide strategies to ease the burden on the local workforce now faced with the estimated 13% of caregivers who have had to reduce their employment hours or who have been faced with the inability to accept promotions or assignments based on their need to care for an aging parent.

About Alzheimer’s Care Group: Alzheimer’s Care Group, an Indiana company established in Indiana in 2002 by CEO Ellen Dunnigan, supplies nationwide expertise in the development of programs and living environments for persons affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Its specialists contribute over seventy years of combined experience in dementia care and research to the clients they serve.