Tonya Cox, MSW LNAH

Tonya Cox, MSW, LNHA is the Regional Executive Director with responsibility over The Homeplace at Midway, Bridgepointe at Ashgrove Woods and the Best Friends Adult Day Center. She has also served as Vice President for Mission and Service for the Greater Kentucky/Southern Indiana Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and for more than 20 years has been developing programs and services for persons with dementia and their caregivers, including working on national curriculum development for professional caregivers in various care settings. Tonya presents locally and nationally on activity programming and dementia care. She is a co-author on The Best Friends Book of Alzheimer’s Activities, Volume One and Volume Two and contributed to The Best Friends Approach to Dementia Care, Second Edition, with Virginia Bell and David Troxel. She serves on the Kentucky Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Council and is a practicum supervisor for both the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work. Tonya is also Adjunct Professor at Midway University in their Health Care Administration Program.