Astrum Care 2021

Who We Are

Astrum Care provides training and consultation to caregivers who are engaged in caring for persons living with dementia. The founder is a registered nurse with more than forty years of experience in hospitals, home health care and hospice. During her last twenty years in practice, she has primarily been focused on end of life care with the specific intention of caring for adults with end stage dementia by employing state-of-the-art treatments coupled with dignity, compassion and support for caregivers. The founder was privileged to witness and direct services and care for hundreds of individuals and their caregivers. These experiences provided the inspiration for her creation of an educational resource comprised of evidence-based practices in a person-centered care approach to dementia. .

Every individual living with dementia, regardless of the type, is unique and should be treated with respect and compassion while creating as many special moments as possible.

The selection and design of items offered by Astrum stem from evidence-based practice (EBP), which is a term that has been used for many areas of health practice. The EBP incorporates principles of: best available research on whether a treatment works and why it works, the clinical judgment or expertise to identify risks or benefits of the intervention, and clinical preferences.

EBP approaches have undergone scientific evaluation and are based upon traditional methods, convention, beliefs or anecdotal experiences. Astrum has researched products offered to caregivers for the care of individuals with various types of dementia and has extensively researched the medical literature as well as observed professional care teams utilizing the person-centered approach to care..

Betty Brennan

Betty J Brennan, RN, BSN has more than fifty years’ experience in the development and management of innovative healthcare services in the alternate site and hospital setting. Her background includes extensive practice in acute care cardiovascular and intensive care nursing as well as in home health care and hospice. Betty has owned and operated two southern California-based home health care agencies. For thirteen years she was founder, president, and CEO of Boston, Massachusetts-based Beacon Hospice. Betty is a recipient of the prestigious Earnst & Young award of Entrepreneur of the Year for her creativity, leadership, business development, and management skills in health care services.

Betty is founder and CEO of astrum care LLC – a venture developing, marketing, and implementing education, consultative services, and specialty products for the delivery of care, comfort, and enhanced quality of life to chronically ill persons. Formerly president of the board of directors of Stamford, Connecticut The Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Betty has served on the board of trustees of the National Hospice Foundation; the board of directors of the Connecticut Alzheimer’s Association. 

She is currently chairperson of the board of directors of Bristol Hospice, LLC as well as a member of the boards of directors of Caring Kind, a New York City-based non-profit dementia care association, and the Connecticut Assisted Living Association.