My mother lives with me and my wife. She is ninety years old, suffers from Alzheimer's, walks with difficulty, needs help to go to the restroom, and the Bedford Center has played an extremely important role in her life. When we moved to Antioch four years ago, she had lost her interest in watching television, reading, and spent most of the day sleeping in a chair. I feared that she was about to become bedridden, and that I would have no choice but put her in a nursing home.
This changed thanks to the splendid adult daycare provided by the Bedford Center, where she has been going for the last two years. My mother enjoys riding the bus that takes her there, loves being with other senior citizens, the activities that take place in the Center, and is always saying how good the staff is to her. I must also point out that the advice that the nurse and the dietitian have given us has been invaluable.
Thanks to the Bedford Center, my mother now has a schedule and something to look forward to five days per week. Although she requires a great deal of maintenance, they have taken excellent care of her. They have improved my mother's quality of life considerably, and the chances are that, if it were not for them, she would now be living in a nursing home.
In a nutshell, there is no question that the Bedford Center constitutes an important asset to the city of Antioch. read more