Community-Based Dementia Care

These resources offer support to individuals with dementia and their families and/or caregivers, including assistance with education, connection to resources, coordination of services, and coordination of healthcare.

These resources offer non-emergency transportation to medical appointments, grocery stores, social activities, etc., and may be government or private services. This list includes programs supported through District funding for older adults, as well as services that offer support inclusive to individuals with dementia. Some of these services are available to all older adults, while others are restricted to members of organizations, such as the DC Villages. This resource guide does not include private rideshare companies such as Lyft, Uber, or Go Go Grandparent.

These resources help with light housework, errands, tasks, or yardwork to help individuals living with dementia remain in their homes. They are often called “homemaker” services. This list does not include many private housekeeping, landscaping, or handyman companies that may not have specific training to meet the needs of older adults. The services included in this list specifically serve local older adults and are inclusive of those with memory loss or dementia. There are several types of providers who can connect older adult to these services including DC Villages, District Organizations (i.e., Lead Agencies), and Private Agencies."

These resources help support personal safety or help to improve home safety for persons living with dementia or memory loss. The services listed are specific to older adults and are generally inclusive of persons with dementia while not being explicitly dementia specific service.

Data provided here are from the DC's 311 service request center. They represent all service requests such as abandoned automobiles, parking meter repair and bulk trash pickup. Requests are received by the Office of Unified Communications (OUC) through the Mayor's Call Center (311), citizens web intake at https://311.dc.gov, electronic and US mail service or via other methods of communication. The Office of Unified Communications (OUC) oversees the designated call center for all 311 calls and for all District 911 calls. Please also visit the DC 311 Service Request Map which allows the public to see service requests in the last 30 days. Users can view requests by Ward within charts. Just set the area filter to select service requests. Click on a service request to view details.

Household type, Education, Disability, Language, Computer/Internet Use, and more. This service is updated annually with American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data. Contact: District of Columbia, Office of Planning. Email: planning@dc.gov. Geography: District-wide. Current Vintage: 2020-2024. ACS Table(s): DP02. Data downloaded from: Census Bureau's API for American Community Survey. Date of API call: March 11, 2026. National Figures: data.census.gov. Please cite the Census and ACS when using this data. Data Note from the Census: Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables. Data Processing Notes: This layer is updated automatically when the most current vintage of ACS data is released each year, usually in December. The layer always contains the latest available ACS 5-year estimates. It is updated annually within days of the Census Bureau's release schedule. Boundaries come from the US Census TIGER geodatabases. Boundaries are updated at the same time as the data updates (annually), and the boundary vintage appropriately matches the data vintage as specified by the Census. These are Census boundaries with water and/or coastlines clipped for cartographic purposes. For census tracts, the water cutouts are derived from a subset of the 2020 AWATER (Area Water) boundaries offered by TIGER. For state and county boundaries, the water and coastlines are derived from the coastlines of the 500k TIGER Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles. The original AWATER and ALAND fields are still available as attributes within the data table (units are square meters). Field alias names were created based on the Table Shells file available from the American Community Survey Summary File Documentation page. Data processed using R statistical package and ArcGIS Desktop. Margin of Error was not included in this layer but is available from the Census Bureau. Contact the Office of Planning for more information about obtaining Margin of Error values.