This is the sitting area just inside the front door at White Oaks home in South Elgin.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

Trish Uttich, White Oaks administrator and registered nurse, listens to resident Almira Behrendt talk about the view from her window at the memory care living facility in South Elgin.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

White Oaks residents Claude Demby, left, and Ken Madsen relax in a sitting room at the memory care home in South Elgin. White Oaks at Heritage Woods offers apartment homes for seniors with Alzheimer's disease or related dementia.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

White Oaks resident Ralph LaCroix gets a hug from administrator and registered nurse Trish Uttich. LaCroix's wife, Glenna, lives in the main building on the Heritage Woods of South Elgin campus and can visit her husband in the dementia care building whenever she wants.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer