Celebrating 10 Years of Impact: Announcing Our 2025 Dementia Live® Scholarship Recipients
2025 marks a powerful milestone at AGE-u-cate Training Institute: 10 years of Dementia Live® transforming the way communities, professionals, and families understand and support people living with dementia.
To honor a decade of education, empathy, and impact, we launched a special giveaway earlier this year—the Dementia Live® Scholarship Program—offering a unique opportunity for organizations committed to building more dementia-friendly communities. After reviewing many inspiring applications from across the country, we’re proud to announce our 10 scholarship recipients for 2025.
Each recipient receives a Dementia Live® Experience Kit and Coach Training, equipping them to bring immersive, empathy-based dementia education directly into their communities.
Why the Giveaway?
Dementia Live® was created to spark understanding, elevate compassion, and drive culture change—especially at the local level. Over the last decade, we’ve seen this powerful simulation change not just minds, but hearts.
To celebrate 10 years of transformation, we wanted to do more than just reflect. We wanted to invest forward—into grassroots organizations, libraries, universities, nonprofits, and aging service providers that are leading the way in their regions. The scholarship was open to groups actively advancing dementia-friendly goals and eager to expand the reach and depth of their work.
Congratulations to Our 2025 Scholarship Recipients
These ten outstanding organizations were selected for their commitment to dementia awareness, creative outreach, and building inclusive spaces for individuals living with cognitive change:
- Dementia Friendly Bryan-College Station – Texas
- Dementia Friendly Fairless Hills, Langhorne, and Southampton – Pennsylvania
- Working with Dementia – Supporting dementia-friendly efforts across Utah
- Lied Public Library – Serving rural Southwest Iowa
- Memory Makers of the MidSouth – Advancing dementia-friendly work in Greater Memphis, Tennessee
- Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center, Inc. – Expanding impact in Long Island, New York
- University of Indianapolis Center for Aging & Community – Leading initiatives in Indiana
- Senior Services, Inc. – Strengthening efforts in Forsyth County, North Carolina
- Area 10 Agency on Aging – Serving Monroe and Owen Counties, Indiana
- Egyptian Area Agency on Aging – Reaching communities across Southern Illinois
These recipients embody the spirit of Dementia Live®—innovative, compassionate, and deeply rooted in community. We’re honored to partner with them in this next chapter.
A Decade of Transformation—And Just Getting Started
Since its launch in 2015, Dementia Live® has touched thousands of lives through experiential training. It’s been used by professionals, caregivers, educators, volunteers, and students in settings ranging from memory care to medical schools to community centers.
By simulating sensory and cognitive changes, participants experience what it may feel like to live with dementia—deepening empathy and improving how we communicate, care, and connect.
But ten years is just the beginning. We remain focused on our mission: to foster a world that respects, understands, and supports people living with dementia—and we believe Dementia Live® is one of the most effective tools to get there.
Bring Dementia Live® to Your Organization
If you’re ready to equip your team with empathy-driven training, enhance your dementia-friendly initiatives, or transform your community’s approach to care, we’d love to talk.
Learn how your organization can host Dementia Live® and empower change from the inside out.
Explore the Dementia Live® Program
Congratulations once again to our 2025 scholarship recipients. Your work inspires us—and we can’t wait to see the ripple effect you’ll create in the year ahead.
Stay tuned as we share updates and stories from these incredible leaders and communities across the country.
