Maude’s Awards
SEEKING INNOVATIONS IN ALZHEIMER’S CARE
Applications for the 2nd Annual Maude’s Awards are available Now! Visit www.MaudesAwards.org. Maude’s Awards was implemented in 2020 to gather innovative practices of care for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their care partners, and to share these practices with the wider dementia care community.
Maude’s Awards was created by Richard Ferry in honor of his beloved wife of 64 years. In 2013, Maude was diagnosed with dementia. Now as a loving care partner and tireless advocate, Richard continues their journey together by discovering and sharing innovations that speak to the challenges and needs of persons living with dementia and their care partners.
Maude’s Awards makes eight annual awards – three $25,000 awards to organizations and five $5,000 awards to individuals – for innovations excelling in one of four categories of care found here: The Awards – Maude's Awards.
Since announcing our first annual award recipients in October 2020, we have been thrilled to hear about the impacts the 2020 Awards have already had, including this update from Award recipient Nicole Chilivis:"Since Maude's Awards, I’ve been exploring how to continue my research using Virtual Reality (VR) to provide joy and connection to people living with dementia and their care partners. I’ve teamed with my longtime friend Sumner Smith to form a company called RelationalVR to continue this work…. Our next steps will involve creating our mobile app to deliver curated content through VR headsets, and trialing that content with people living with dementia. Thanks to Maude's Awards, we were able to purchase 360 cameras and computers to film and edit our own beautiful VR videos. A director of a Seattle assisted living facility who learned of my work through Maude's Awards is interested in a pilot program for her residents. I am so grateful for the resources and opportunities provided by the Maude’s Awards, and excited to help this innovative tool become more widely available for people living with dementia."
Way to go, Nicole!