WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A $25,000 endowed fund has been established for the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita to research Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
The endowment is a gift from Wichita-based Comfort Care Homes, a provider of dementia care. It will provide annual funding for research projects related to Alzheimer’s, dementia and the caregiver experience, with an emphasis on student-led research.
Comfort Care said the endowment grew out of its partnership with the school and its training program, in which students work directly with people living with dementia in real-world care settings.
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“To be able to invest in an endowment that has educational outcomes for a long time is huge for a company to do,” said Micala Gingrich-Gaylord, CEO of Comfort Care. “It means that we’re not just committed to the one person that we’re taking care of or the people we take care of. It’s an entire community.”…