The Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation at Eskenazi Health is the new destination of hope for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, late-life onset of depression and anxiety, and early schizophrenia. It is the first center of its kind in the United States to combine pioneering research and clinical care, yielding faster and more effective outcomes for the patient and caregiver.
The patient and caregiver are treated as a team, with caregivers and family members becoming active participants in care and having significant responsibility for the overall success of treatment.
While it primarily involves patients and their families in Indianapolis and Central Indiana, the Sandra Eskenazi Center’s model will be scalable for national locations, age groups and diseases. To support the Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation, please visit www.eskenazihealthfoundation.org/donate.
Our Vision
Transforming brain health for all, now.
Dementia and Depression
Like other chronic diseases, Alzheimer’s disease cannot be cured, but it can be managed. One in three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States and it often occurs with dementia.
Psychosis and Early-Onset Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe and disabling diseases facing mankind. It begins early in life, typically in the late teens and early 20s, then follows a downward course that progresses into a lifelong illness marked by untold personal suffering.
Individuals afflicted with schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses lead lives marked by social isolation, unemployment, disorganized thinking and lack of touch with reality. The suicide rate is high (up to 10%), and affected individuals die at much younger ages than their healthy peers – up to 20 years earlier.
