memory care
Sometimes the best care you can give an Alzheimer’s patient, is allowing someone else be the care giver.

Our Memory Impaired unit provides a safe, structured environment, with around the clock assistance, for those residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Many residents do not need this type of supervision; however, if a resident is prone to wandering then it may be necessary. 		Memory Care resident and care taker

This program provides a secure living area with doors operated by a coded magnetic lock. These doors ensure that the resident is always in a place where they can be monitored by our specially trained staff.

Residents personal needs are addressed by our trained staff, who supervise and maintain consistent activities of daily living (ADL’s), as scheduled changes can be confusing for many residents. A specialized activities program assists the residents in socialization skills as well as having other beneficial effects.

Here are a few signs of when it’s time to get help;

For many caregivers, the time to seek help or even place their loved one in a facility is when they themselves can no longer cope with the physical or mental demands of care giving. If you are having coping difficulties, try various support services. A telltale sign of when it’s time to get help is:

  • Feeling very stressed, anxious, depressed, easily angered, or irritable
  • Feeling exhausted or having sleep problems
  • Your health begins to deteriorate
  • People say you are depressed or exhausted, but you deny it.
  • When you withdraw socially
  • When you can’t concentrate anymore
  • The loved ones mental and physical state

    Some key behaviors or conditions in the loved one that would cause you to consider a facility are:

  • The loved one is so physically abusive that you don’t feel safe anymore.
  • The loved one wanders from home and jeopardizes their own safety
Memory Care

Whether your loved one requires limited assistance; or may need more - our comprehensive Alzheimer’s Program provides the full range of care and services for seniors with mid to early moderate cognitive and functional impairment, as well as for those individuals with moderate to early severe cognitive and functional impairments. Service, caring and compassion is our goal.

Forest Oaks has a 22 bed secured unit for /the safety of our memory care residents. Our specially trained staffed will be able to meet the physical and psychosocial needs of all levels of Alzheimer’s and Dementia related illnesses.

 

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