We believe our Memory Care Community, once completed, will be different than any other memory care, at least in this area. We don’t know of any other memory care facility that has an interior that looks like a downtown scene, which is what we’ve done at the Homeplace. This downtown will allow our residents to stroll along sidewalks throughout the community and stop in at different ‘stores’, just like they did in their past.
As you enter our Memory Care Community, the first thing you’ll probably notice is the streetscape plan—unless you look up. The ceiling of the memory care unit rises high to make room for the streetlights and high facades that line the interior walls in the community. Near the community’s main entrance, laminate hardwood creates a sidewalk to offer a walkway to the residents’ private apartment and encourage controlled wandering.
Walking alongside the sidewalk, you’ll pass by buildings which have facades that appear to be those of downtown buildings. They reach two stories tall! The buildings are meant to be small replicas of stores one might find in a downtown. For example, we plan on having a hardware store and an arts and crafts store. Each will be outfitted with a roofline. Residents will be able to handle and play with the items in the store.
Once you walk past this downtown scene, you will enter a neighborhood where the residents’ apartments will be located. The Memory Care Community will include 24 studio apartments, each made up of a bedroom/living area, private bathroom, and closet. The apartments are designed in a way that residents will not spend much time within their apartment, but in the large open space outside their doors with other residents doing activities.
In addition to the streetscape, a café will be located up front of the community. This is where residents will be served meals and snacks. Also, we will encompass activity areas in the neighborhoods, as well, which will include a reading area, a place to care for plants and flowers, and another for board games, like chess and checkers.
Residents can safely exit outside to a courtyard where they can work in the raised garden beds and lounge in the patio furniture.
Of course, we’re biased, but we don’t know of any other memory care community that has created any likeness like this. This type of real-life scene will allow our residents and your elder loved one to continue to enjoy each day and get the most out of his life.
To contact the Homeplace of Henderson, email Jessica Beaven at jessica.beaven@homeplaceofhenderson.com or call at (270) 577-0534.