Welcome to Full Life Care

Welcome to the new website for Full Life Care – formerly ElderHealth Northwest. Click here for more information about our name change.

Full Life helps adults of all ages with chronic illnesses, physical or developmental disabilities. We are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving people’s lives and supporting caregivers. Since the 1970s, we have helped thousands of individuals preserve their dignity and avoid living in a nursing home or in isolation.

Awards and national recognition shine light on our array of services: adult day health, memory care homes, care consultation, mental health, in-home care and volunteer companionship.

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Nora's Corner

Nora Gibson

by Nora Gibson, Executive Director

Above and Beyond the Call of Duty

Call of duty may be military terminology, but it reminds me of Full Life Care’s participants, staff and volunteers. Three stories come to mind.

Last year, adults with developmental disabilities were forced to choose between staying in a DD system waiver (a way to access support and job services) or moving to the long-term care system to continue to receive adult day health services. Surprisingly 50 percent of our participants chose to leave the DD system in order to continue using our adult day health programs.

Many of these participants live with their parents (or in adult family homes) and had job coaches through the DD system, enabling some of them to hold employment. But they left that behind because . . .

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