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Website: https://umcommunities.org/ WORKING BOOK TITLE - To the Enclave: A Journey to a New Mode of Dementia Care A book by Larry Carlson To the Enclave: A Journey to a New Mode of Dementia Care is a book by Larry Carlson, CEO of United Methodist Communities (UMC), one of America’s largest non-profit operators of nursing homes and senior living communities. His book describes UMC’s journey in pioneering a new approach to memory and dementia care in the USA. The innovative Hogewey dementia village model based in the Netherlands served as the catalyst that inspired Enclave’s embrace of memory care. To the Enclave offers Carlson’s unique, personal process of discovering how to optimize day-to-day living for people and their families experiencing challenges around the growing dementia care crisis in the US. Carlson has had an epiphany, resolving to bring new elements of joyful and humane dementia care to eldercare communities. Sharing compelling stories of families touched by dementia, Carlson shares how c