Like most dementia caregivers, Ty Lewis is resourceful.

When her mother, Gertrude Jordan, was diagnosed with dementia in 2014 at the age of 70, Lewis, an educator, wife and mother of two daughters, started learning as much as she could about the disease and how to advocate for someone with it.

For the first six years following her diagnosis, Jordan was left under the care of her husband until his death in February 2020. For Lewis, there was no question what would happen after that. “We went all in” as a family to care for her mother in their home, she said.