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Founded by Always Best Care Torrance
The South Bay Dementia Education Consortium was founded in the spring of 2017 by Dr. David Hart, Director of Community Health at Always Best Care Torrance, who identified a gap in in-person dementia education programming in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. At the time, the vast majority of workshops, trainings, and events were concentrated on the Westside and in downtown Los Angeles — often more than an hour’s drive from the South Bay. Dr. Hart partnered with other organizations already offering dementia education to pool their collective experience, expertise, connections to leading experts in the field, and marketing databases in order to expand access to educational programming closer to home for South Bay families. Always Best Care Senior Services has served as a founding member of the Consortium since its inception, and Dr. Hart continues to serve as the Consortium’s founding chair. Since its founding nine years ago, the Consortium has delivered more than 30 educational programs to an estimated 1,800 participants facing the challenges of dementia care.
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South Bay Dementia Education Consortium
– Caregiver Education Series
The South Bay Dementia Education Consortium is a collaborative partnership among Always Best Care Senior Services, the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Los Angeles, Beach Cities Health District, the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Care at UCLA, OPICA Adult Day Care and Counseling Center, and Silverado Memory Care that provides evidence-based educational programs that equip people living with dementia, family caregivers, care partners, and professionals with practical knowledge and resources to support planning across the dementia journey. The Consortium hosts four educational events each year, reaching approximately 50–100 participants per event. Programming covers topics such as caregiver support, research updates, and financing long-term care, helping caregivers build the knowledge and confidence needed to serve as informed partners in advance care planning and dementia care. For example, its July 2026 workshop, Protecting Your Loved One: Legal Planning for Dementia Care, engaged 94 participants and provided medical and legal guidance on advance health care directives, powers of attorney, decision-making capacity, trusts, estate planning, and long-term care options.
Senior Moments or Something Else?
— David Hart, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Services, Always Best Care South Bay, presenting on a panel at Torrance Memorial. Recommended hero image — shows Dr. Hart, Always Best Care branding, and Torrance Memorial together.
See upcoming Consortium events and register, or contact Always Best Care Torrance to learn how our founding role in the Consortium supports the families we serve.
November 12, 2026: Hard Talks: The conversations caregiving families avoid — and how to finally have them.
A workshop for people who freeze, avoid, or shut down when conflict shows up — especially in caregiving families trying to make hard decisions together. Participants learn to recognize their own conflict response, then build two practical skills: nonviolent communication for expressing needs without blame, and active listening for really hearing someone else. The goal isn’t to win the conversation — it’s to resolve it, not extend it, and to learn that advocating for yourself is what makes it possible to truly advocate for someone you love.
“The Incredible Brain” presentation to a full audience at the Miracle of Living lecture series.
“Research Challenges” presentation on dementia research to a South Bay audience.
“Caregiving Essentials” presentation on dementia research to a South Bay audience.