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As we get older, many of us naturally need a helping hand - perhaps someone
to help us get ready for the day, help manage our medications or prepare special
meals. Sometimes that's all we need to live safely on our own.
Our staff is here to offer that helping hand, but only when and if you need it.
Our full range of assisted living services are designed to help you maintain
your health, so you can live as independently as possible. These include:
- Daily assistance with bathing and dressing
- Medication management
- Dining assistance and special diets
- Assistance with reminders and redirection
- Escorts and assistance with walking
- Emergency response call system
- Rehabilitation services (Physical, Occupational, Speech Therapy)
To ensure we meet your needs, we use a state-of-the-art computerized evaluation
system, called the Resident Evaluation Overview. This helps us accurately
evaluate, predict and monitor assisted living services for each resident. In
addition, our Resident Care Director will visit with you on a regular basis to
personally discuss health-related issues and to monitor your progress.
Alzheimer's
and related Dementia
The Emeritus Alzheimer's
and Dementia Special Care Program is designed with a clear understanding
of the disease process to provide superior and individual resident focused care.
We know our residents intimately by spending time with them and their loved
ones to build a personal biography. This becomes the basis for our resident
focused care.
Meeting your loved one's
needs:
At Emeritus communities, our caregivers focus on the resident's wants and needs
based on their biography. We strive to address all their needs with a personalized
supportive environment. Understanding the resident's past experiences and personal
preferences allows us to provide for the physical, social, emotional, cultural,
spiritual and functional needs of our residents. We do this through an on going
process of gathering information from family members and significant others.
We honor and validate our resident's feelings and strive to help them be the
best they can be that day. That is the Emeritus resident focused philosophy.
Achieving the best in
everyday:
The Emeritus Alzheimer's and Dementia Special Care Program is successful through
extensive training and genuine caring by our staff. Emeritus incorporates Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs theory, which is meeting all human needs to achieve
our best everyday. Caregivers understand that by meeting resident's basic needs
of food, feeling safe, loved and validated to build self-esteem, residents are
happier. Staff members use continual meaningful interactions and activities,
joining in the resident's moments to achieve the best in everyday for the residents.
Validation Techniques:
We use validation techniques to accept and join the resident's reality or world.
This type of interaction focuses on understanding and accepting the resident's
interpretation of their surroundings and sense of self within the framework
of their reality. We spend time with your loved one to help them feel okay,
feel safe and feel good about that particular moment.
Training:
We also train our caregivers to understand how Alzheimer's affects the brain
and understand what causes behavior. With that understanding, our caregivers
join residents in their moment rather than bring them into our reality. We don't
label typical behaviors associated with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia,
our staff members search to find the unmet human need that might be triggering
behavior. Caregivers know that behavior is communication and work to validate
a resident's current feelings, striving always to focus on our resident's needs
and wants.
Personalized Environments:
Using the biographies of residents, our communities create environments that
are familiar to them. Communities build memory stations for residents with a
place to go that feels familiar to them to rekindle memories of their lives
and to create activities. It may be as simple as a table with everyday tools,
or a teachers chalk board. We help residents feel successful and give them a
sense of belonging. Emeritus caregivers join with your loved one and family
to create a familiar and comfortable environment in their individual apartment
as well the community environment. That is the foundation for our resident focused
care, knowing our residents' needs intimately.
Finally, you’ll have time to enjoy life and to trade your household chores
for the joys of retirement living. Whether that’s volunteering for the art
league or taking in an evening at the local theater, you’ll have the freedom to
do what you like best. After all, you’ve earned the right to pursue what you
enjoy most!
