Alzheimer’s & Dementia Care In Dayton, OH
Structured home care that supports memory, safety, and familiar routines.
Specialized Memory Support for Seniors Still Living at Home
Most families reach out after a hard stretch. A night of wandering, a stove left on, a parent who no longer recognizes the house they have lived in for thirty years.
Lavender Home Care Solutions provides Alzheimer’s and dementia care in Dayton, OH, that keeps your loved one in familiar surroundings with a caregiver trained to manage memory loss rather than simply supervise it. We have offered home care in Dayton since 2009 from our downtown office, serving families throughout Montgomery and Greene counties.
Our caregivers work across the full progression, from early forgetfulness and repeated questions through late-stage needs. That includes vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and the cognitive changes that often accompany Parkinson’s disease.
What Daily Support Looks Like as Dementia Progresses
Memory care is not a single service. What a client needs in year one and year four barely overlap, so the plan is built around behavior and adjusted as the disease moves.
Caregivers Trained for Memory Loss
Redirection instead of correction. The same question answered for the twelfth time without irritation. When a case needs more, we add condition-specific training at no cost to the family.
Around-the-Clock Supervision
24-hour home care covers the point where a client cannot safely be left alone, with hands-on personal care once bathing and dressing turn confusing rather than merely difficult.
Nights, Sundowning, and Wandering
Sundowning is why most families call. Our overnight care covers that window with soothing routines and eyes on the exits, which matters more between November and March when an Ohio winter makes wandering dangerous fast.
A Familiar Home, Made Safer
Many homes we work in around Kettering and Oakwood are two-story with the bath upstairs. The assessment flags stairs, stove access, and exit routines, so fall prevention is in the plan from day one.
Cognitive Support
Structured engagement slows the drift into apathy, which families often notice before memory loss. Familiar music, simple puzzles, and photo conversations, scaled down as abilities change rather than dropped.
The Same Face Every Shift
Every new caregiver has to be introduced again, and the resistance resets. Our wellness program builds on that consistency with a plan covering mental, physical, social, and emotional needs.
From First Call to First Visit
Call a care coordinator
We ask the questions that determine what this case actually needs: whether they wander, how the evenings go, whether they are ever alone, and whether they have been diagnosed or the family is still guessing. Services, real pricing, and scheduling get covered on that same call.
Free in-home assessment
Olivia or Bernard comes out, meets your loved one, and walks the house looking at stairs, exits, the stove, and where medication is kept. The care plan gets built around the routines already in place, because replacing routines is what causes agitation.
Paperwork, with no contract
No required length of service and no minimum commitment. Families often start with a few hours and increase as the disease progresses.
Meet the caregiver before the first shift
Kelli matches on temperament, not just availability, because the wrong personality in the room does not just underperform with a dementia client, it triggers refusal. Most cases are staffed within one to two weeks, and we arrange a meet-and-greet whenever timing allows.
Ongoing check-ins
Dementia does not hold still. We check in regularly and adjust hours, tasks, and coverage as behavior changes, so the plan is not still built around who your loved one was six months ago.
Why Dayton Families Trust Lavender With Memory Care
Bernard Dalichau started Lavender in 2009 after years of caring for his own grandfather. It is locally owned and run from downtown Dayton, not a franchise following a corporate playbook written in another state, and Bernard still steps into assessments and caregiver matching himself.
Memory care punishes the things other services forgive. A mismatch, a missed detail, or a new caregiver every week costs you more here than it would anywhere else.
- Three-layer screening before anyone enters the home. Pre-employment drug screen, 50-state background check, and work history verification. This matters more with a dementia client, who often cannot tell you what happened while you were at work.
- Caregiver consistency, not a rotating cast. Low turnover means the same person returns, which is the single most useful thing for someone who cannot hold new faces in memory.
- Extra training paid by us, not you. When a case needs skills beyond standard onboarding, whether that is aggression, exit-seeking, or late-stage feeding, we train for it at no additional cost.
- A coordinator you can reach. Kelli handles scheduling directly, so a bad week can be addressed the same day rather than through a call center.
- Coverage across the region. Families in Centerville, Beavercreek, and the surrounding Miami Valley communities get the same coordinators and the same caregivers as our downtown clients.
- BBB accredited, 4.5 stars on Google, more than 1,000 families served.
You Should Not Have to Do the Night Shift Alone
Most families call us after a bad night, not after a doctor’s appointment. You do not need a diagnosis, a care plan, or a decision already made to pick up the phone.
Tell us what the last few weeks have looked like and we will tell you honestly whether in-home care is the right answer yet. The assessment happens in the home, costs nothing, and comes with no obligation to book a single hour.
Call 937-660-6901 or reach out to Lavender to talk through what your loved one needs.
