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Benchmark director receives innovation award for dementia care

Health Services 06/19/2026

MICHELLE TRISTANI, Providence resident and director of memory care training and innovation at Benchmark Senior Living LLC, was recently named a 2026 Memory Care...

REVEALING INVENTION: University of Rhode Island associate professor Claudia Fallini, right, and postdoctoral fellow Riccardo Sirtori display a small, low-cost device they helped develop at URI’s South Kingstown campus to study the long-term degenerative effects of traumatic brain injury.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

URI researchers build low-cost device to reveal hidden damage from brain...

Education 12/19/2025

Traumatic brain injuries are far more common than many realize. Globally, more than 65 million people suffer such trauma each year, University of Rhode...

PACE-RI opens reminiscence therapy room for those with mild dementia

Health Services 05/04/2025

EAST PROVIDENCE – PACE Organization of Rhode Island recently unveiled a reminiscence therapy room to support those with dementia. Reminiscence therapy helps elders, especially those...

VISITING DAY: Interaction with pets is part of the Memory Cafe at the Wingate Residences on the East Side in Providence. The cafe, a kind of social group offered to those facing dementia, restarted in October for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.  PBN PHOTO/ARTISTIC IMAGES

In-person memory cafes return with help from assisted living communities

Health Matters 11/22/2024

Laurie Gunter Mantz tried hosting memory cafes over Zoom for months. But it just wasn’t working. Memory cafes are gatherings meant to provide those living...

Licenses revoked from nursing assistant convicted of stealing from patients

Health Services 10/03/2023

WEST WARWICK – A nursing assistant who was convicted of stealing from memory loss patients at the Spring Villa Memory Care Assisted Living Facility...

Brain researcher at URI part of international team given $8M grant

Health Services 07/09/2023

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island researcher is part of a transatlantic team awarded a five-year, $8 million grant to the study...

URI professor researching treatments for age-related disorders

Education 01/08/2023

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – As the world population continues to age, age-related disorders, such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, are becoming more frequent. A new study...