Pamela Mills has been promoted to director of memory programming at Washington, DC-based Ingleside. In this role, she will lead the company in creating therapeutic programming for those with neurocognitive disorders.

Previously, Mills was director of memory care at the Ingleside at King Farm continuing care retirement community in Rockville, MD. There, she developed, planned, organized and implemented the day-to-day functions of the memory care services. She also began, from concept to creation, a social day program called Ingleside Engaged, for people with dementia-related cognitive impairment.

Mills has a certificate in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care training through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners and is a certified therapeutic recreation specialist through the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification.

She has a master’s degree Erickson School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.