Accredited in Award-winning Dementia Care Program

Bluestem Communities’ life plan communities, Kidron Bethel Village and Schowalter Villa, provide top-quality care for individuals who have difficulty thinking or who are living with a dementia diagnoses. Both communities are accredited by Comfort Matters, an evidence-based philosophy and care practice that provides a holistic and integrated approach to improve quality of care and life for people with dementia.

About Comfort Matters

Comfort Matters is built on a foundation of five simple but powerful concepts for people living with dementia:

• Comfort care.
• Anticipation of needs.
• Know the person.
• Person-directed practice.
• Staff and family empowerment

Comfort care, or palliative care, as it is often called, has long been considered for people at end-of-life. Comfort Matters demonstrates that this model of care improves life for people with dementia long before they are in end-stage disease.

With Comfort Matters, people with dementia continue to be viewed as experts on their personal comfort despite the challenges of living with dementia. By embedding comfort in both the personal approach and the organizational systems, everyone has the tools to do for the person with dementia what the person would do for themselves if they could.