From the moment you walk into Ardent Manor Adult Day Center's bright main room and experience their warm welcoming greeting, you know you are in a unique program. Staffed with dedicated professionals, you can feel how much they love what they do! It is exactly what our family needed to find after our exhausted caregiver mother was in need of relief during the day in providing care and supervision of our stepfather who had Alzheimer's. He was easily agitated and found it very uncomfortable to be around strangers, making it near impossible to find a place where he would be happy, safe and well cared for! Each of the Day Centers we visited, he was intolerant of the place and anxiously wanted to leave."¦until we visited Ardent Manor and met Helen W., the Executive Director! On first meeting her, it was like watching a gifted artist with a brush on canvas, how she skillfully painted a beautiful study of him and zeroed in on his personal fears and comfort level...handling him with just enough humor and comfort that, with pleasure, he voluntarily sat down and within minutes was engaging in a group activity! If you knew my stepfather you knew that never happened before! Shocked as we were by this, after getting to know Helen I realized how much this gifted woman was making an enormous lasting change in all our lives and had been doing with countless families before we got there. Committed to providing a caring supportive service that promotes dignity and self esteem, Helen and Dan Waite have partnered to create an endearing and charming "Club" ! Along with Lexi and their other dedicated team, they helped in Charlie's transition from attending a couple of hours a week to five days and a full day...it provided immeasurable fulfillment for the challenges he faced with Alzheimer's. The program which consists of daily exercise, music therapy, singing, crafts, discussion groups, games, cards, memory enhancement exercises and discussion groups are prepared with warmth and dignity. As Charlie's health declined, they were with us every step of the way with the warmest support and care you could ask for! Our family is extremely thankful that we found Helen and Dan and their wonderful Center"¦and especially in helping to make a "soft spot to lean on" during those tiresome times. "Ardent Manor"! "“ Integrity, compassionate, devoted, spirited, fun-loving, dignity"¦.. They named their Adult Center the best way they could have to describe them!