Life at Memory Care
Private suites allow each resident a place to personalize with cherished familiar belongings, creating a warm, comforting and reassuring “home” that minimizes disorientation. Regular housekeeping and round-the-clock assistance help eliminate residents’ frustration with daily tasks.

Special common areas provide daily opportunities for activities and meals that encourage social interaction and friendships. Staffed by trained caregivers, Memory Care at Blakeford also includes security enhancements to ensure your loved one’s safety, including an emergency response system, as well as monitored access, all in a non-threatening environment.

Residents of Memory Care at Blakeford can also enjoy the many additional amenities found at Blakeford. When the weather permits, residents enjoy supervised strolls around the beautifully landscaped Blakeford campus, giving our residents the proven cognitive benefits of exercise and the outdoors.

Memory Care Services
Each new resident of Memory Care at Blakeford is given a complete cognitive and functional assessment. A personalized plan of therapeutic activities is designed to minimize stress, while encouraging involvement with friends, family and staff. This structured plan helps bring meaning, purpose and predictability to the resident’s life, reducing day-to-day anxiety or confusion. Regular follow-up evaluations make sure each resident continues to receive personalized and appropriate levels of care.

A key component to the cognitive-enhancement activities of Memory Care at Blakeford is the utilization of the Serper Method™ of Brain Recovery, Re-Growth, and Vitality, an innovative and non-invasive program of brain exercises that help revitalize thought and revive memory. The purposeful exercises are designed to relate to each participant’s specific interests, with a format that uses newspapers, television, puzzles and previously learned information to turn life's activities into brain therapy.

Additionally, Memory Care at Blakeford helps enrich the life of your loved one with art and crafts, music and other creative activities that engage the mind and encourage self-expression. Taking into account your loved one’s personality and preferences, we plan activities to spark his or her particular interests, based on capabilities, physical health and behavioral status. Various social activities also help residents develop friendships, creating a comforting sense of inclusion and keeping them connected with the world around them.

Our Caregiver Team
The needs of dementia care require specialized training and skills, as well as a higher staff-to-patient ratio than at a traditional assisted-living facility. All of our staff members have received dementia-specific training, including training in the Serper Method, and have 24-hour access to the medical expertise of the Woodcrest Health Center.

We understand, though, that you expect more than technical expertise — you also want to know that your loved one is being treated with kindness, understanding, patience and reassurance. Every member of the Memory Care at Blakeford staff is dedicated to providing loving care for the body, mind and spirit of each resident. We give our residents the same unconditional respect, love and compassion that they receive from their family. We will treat your loved one as one of our own.