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Lynden Legacy provides grants to family caregivers who are caring for loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. To apply or nominate someone for our Caregiver Respite Relief Grant please fill out the form below. Send your caregiving story (1-2 paragraphs).

 FAQ’s

  • Non-professional family caregivers, taking care of a loved one with Alzheirer’s disease or another form of dementia.

  • Our Lynden Legacy Foundation board will review each application and select grant recipients based on urgency and individual needs.

  • If selected, you will be notified by email.

  • Caregiver grants are funded by donations made by generous sponsors and individuals.

  • Jewish Family Service of Utah & Mind What Matters

Grant Recipient Stories (In partnership with Mind What Matters)

  • “Hello, I am nominating my fiancé. She is the primary caretaker of her father. He was diagnosed at age 61, while she was 21. She was attending college at the time and immediately changed her life around when he got diagnosed. She took action to make sure he was comfortable and able to succeed in his environment. She graduated from college and started to work full-time while getting her masters. The entire time she was able to put him first.
My fiancé worked very hard to get her father in a social day program while her and the family work, but these programs are very expensive. If she received this grant, she would be able to use it for his program and take some of the burden off her and the family.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I truly appreciate what you do to help families in need.”

  • “I have taken care of my dad full time for the past three years. Ever since covid started I decided to bring him home instead of him staying in a nursing home. It was what I felt was the right and safest thing to do. 4 years ago he had a bad incident where he ended up in ICU for three months due to his second heart attack and other complications to his health. He has not been the same since. He has dementia and is fully bed bound. I am 7 months pregnant and still fully take care of my dad and would use this grant to help me take time off and get help for him and also bond with my newborn.”

  • “Hello! I am a full-time caregiver for my mother who has been living with dementia (LWD) since 2019. She is 75 and wonderfully sweet, but cannot be left alone and would need care if I ever get the chance to go take a vacation of some kind.
I would like to go somewhere soon, without placing the burden of care on my younger sister who has 4 kids, for so many days.
I would love to get away for a week!
I turn 40 at the end of August and I haven’t been able to wrap my mind around celebrating the milestone because I know it comes with so much needed support. The grant would cover the cost of having someone stay at home with mom. Or maybe just a full week of adult daycare to decrease the needed hours from my family.”

  • “Anonymous is a health clerk (school nurse) at an elementary school in an extremely low income area. The kids at her school come have parents in jail, some are homeless and sleep in cars, and others and just come from homes with very little resources. Anonymous, who doesn’t have children of her own, treats each one of these kids like her very own. She buys snacks and drinks for these kids with her own money for the health room so when they come see her she has goodies for them. She is an angel on earth.
She has been her dad’s main caregiver for years and moved in with him to help care for him better. Recently he was hospitalized and his health is declining. He suffers from dementia and he is needing more round the clock care. Anonymous is having to take more time away from her job to care from her dad and it’s draining her finances. She is one of the most selfless, kindhearted, deserving people I know of a grant like this. She is becoming exhausted and overwhelmed. Please consider helping her receive some caregiving respite.”

  • “Hello, thank you for this opportunity I just heard about on Instagram. I moved to So. California in 2016, quitting my full time job to live with parents, and to help my mom, who was showing signs of dementia, with my ailing father and my youngest sister who was in a nursing home in diapers, with short term memory loss and not ambulatory. My sister died in 2017 from skin cancer and my dad passed in 2018 at age 88. I have two sisters who both live in Colorado and both work in the medical field and need their jobs to pay for family health insurance. They are the best sisters ever and try to come out when they can to help. They and other people tell me I need to get out and do something for myself. My mom fell and broke her hip in May, hitting her head, which didn’t help the dementia, and can’t do anything without assistance. Her dementia is getting worse every day and has recently asked me a couple times what my name was. I don’t really want to leave her for very long with anyone, but we used to bowl on a league together and I would like to rejoin the league. A nurse in the rehab facility suggested I call Comfort Keepers, one of the people who told me to get a life, and I found out they charge $35 an hour with a four hour minimum. Yikes! I might be able to take her with me sometimes if she feels like it. She’s incontinent and that’s what I most worry about if I take her and also the fact her back and hip hurt so sitting for that long, I don’t know. Anyway, that’s what I would use any money for. Just once a week bowling. Thank you for your consideration.”

  • "I am the oldest of five. Sadly, we lost one of my younger brothers 35 years ago, at the age of 23. The remaining four of us are currently dividing and conquering, each taking on tasks that will allow our parents to remain in their beloved, and our childhood, home. Three of us currently live within 30-45 minutes of the house. Our sister, who lives in FL with her family, takes care of all my parents' finances, and spends at least a month every summer helping us out in the home.
My Mom has advanced Parkinson’s, is extremely mobility limited, and is showing increasing signs of Parkinsons dementia. My Dad has had dementia for a couple of years, and it seems to be getting worse by the day.
My siblings and I have promised our parents we'd keep them out of a facility for as long as humanly possible. They love their home, have lived there for 60 years, and are in familiar surroundings with neighbors who watch out for them. We'd like to not place them in a facility as change causes them both stress, and makes their dementia symptoms - confusion, anger, and agitation - much worse.
I/we would use the grant to have more caregivers in the house to help my siblings and I to get some respite, and be able to keep them in their own home for as long as possible. The extra help would relieve some of the constant back and forth trips from my home in NH to their home in MA, and one of my brother's trips from Leominster, MA to Chelmsford, MA. The extra help would also allow us the luxury of going to just visit our parents and enjoy their company, rather than showing up and being "on duty."