Comfort care, not disease treatment
This is gentle, calming support aimed at comfort, relaxation, agitation, and sleep, not a treatment for dementia, and not a claim to slow, stop, or reverse cognitive decline.
Dementia Care Support
Dementia changes so much. Comfort and calm shouldn’t be out of reach.
The agitation that’s hard to soothe. The sleep that’s become unpredictable, for your loved one and for you. The exhaustion of caregiving, on top of watching someone you love change. Your loved one’s neurologist or geriatrician manages the diagnosis and medical care of the disease itself. There is a different way to support the day-to-day: gentle, calming care focused on comfort, relaxation, and quality of life, for the person living with dementia, coordinated closely with their medical team.
- Practicing in Fort Lauderdale since 1994
- Coordinates with neurologists & geriatricians
What this is, and isn’t
The caregiver carries a lot too
The vigilance that doesn’t turn off. The grief of a slow goodbye. The exhaustion of caregiving on top of every other responsibility, often with little space to ask how you, the caregiver, are actually doing.
Comfort matters, even when a cure doesn’t exist
Dementia care is primarily managed by a neurologist or geriatrician, appropriately. Alongside that, we believe care aimed at comfort and relaxation has real value for quality of life, both for the person living with dementia and the family caring for them.
What’s often missing
Medical care for dementia focuses, appropriately, on diagnosis, medication, and safety planning. What’s often missing is dedicated, hands-on support aimed purely at the day-to-day: calmer afternoons, easier nights, not a treatment for the disease itself.
Gentle, comfort-focused support, coordinated with the medical team
Families come to this clinic looking for calming, comfort-focused care for a loved one with dementia, always alongside, never instead of, their neurologist or geriatrician’s care. The evaluation covers stage, tolerance, and consent before anything is planned.
The approach: gentle acupuncture and calming touch-based techniques, adapted carefully to each person’s comfort and ability to tolerate treatment, aimed at relaxation and easing agitation.
We do not claim to treat, slow, or reverse dementia or cognitive decline, and we coordinate closely with the patient’s medical team and family.
Working with your care team
Your loved one’s neurologist or geriatrician manages diagnosis, medication, and disease progression; we coordinate with them and with family caregivers. This is comfort-focused support only, never a substitute for medical care.
Susan Mitchell, AP
Clinical Director · 30+ years
You’re Not a Case Number
Your protocol, personalized
There’s no fixed number of visits and no generic timeline. Your treatment frequency, therapy mix, and program length are set at your evaluation and adjusted at every visit based on how you’re actually responding.
What shapes your plan
Your specific symptoms
What you’re experiencing and how long it’s been going on sets your starting approach.
Your response
Visit frequency steps up or down based on your measured progress at each visit, not a preset week count.
Your care team
Your plan is built and adjusted in coordination with your loved one’s neurologist or geriatrician, and your family, never around them.
Candidacy comes first: the evaluation determines whether the program fits your case; cost is discussed in person after that.
The Plan
Three steps, starting with the consultation
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$45 initial consultation
Tell us about your loved one’s stage, comfort level, and current medical care. We evaluate your loved one’s case, including whether they’re a candidate.
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A gentle, personalized approach
Adapted carefully to your loved one’s comfort, tolerance, and stage, coordinated with their medical team.
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More calm, for your loved one and your family
Gentler days. A little more ease, for everyone involved.
What Comfort Looks Like
Gentler days, for both of you
An afternoon that stays calm.
A little more ease at the hardest hours.
Time together that isn’t only about the disease.
Comfort and calm are worth pursuing, at every stage
Agitation, disrupted sleep, and distress can affect quality of life for both the person living with dementia and their caregivers. Gentle, comfort-focused support is worth pursuing for its own sake, not as a treatment for the disease, but as care for the whole family navigating it.
Questions, Answered
Dementia FAQs
No. We do not treat, slow, or reverse dementia or cognitive decline, and we are direct about that from the first conversation. This is comfort-focused support only, alongside your loved one’s neurologist or geriatrician.
We evaluate each person individually, including their ability to tolerate and consent to treatment, and coordinate closely with family and medical caregivers. Some stages or situations may not be appropriate candidates, and we’ll say so.
Agitation and disrupted sleep are the two things families come here about most; we tell you what’s realistic for your loved one’s specific situation.
We care about the whole family navigating this. Ask us at your consultation, we’re glad to talk through what might help, including referrals to caregiver support resources.
Yes, and we coordinate with them directly. No referral is required, though; you can call directly.
Book Your Consultation
You’ve been carrying a lot. Let’s support the body carrying it.
Your initial consultation is $45. Tell us your story, and we’ll evaluate your case.
Visit us
3471 North Federal Highway, Suite 500
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33306
Therapists, psychiatrists & physicians
Physicians across Broward County refer patients here; a phone call is all it takes.
New Patient Offer
$45 Initial Consultation
Book your first visit
We’ll confirm by call or text, usually the same day.
No referral required · We coordinate with your therapist, psychiatrist, or physician.