Brookdale Citrus Heights

If you re living with dementia, small steps can be big wins. If you and your family are looking for a memory care community, Brookdale Citrus Heights can help. Our Alzheimer's and dementia care community, also known as Clare Bridge, is rooted in a person-centered approach . That means we help our residents find a sense of belonging and purpose while also helping them preserve who they are.

Here state-of-the-art care meets a passion for painting. Residents stay engaged with a gentle daily structure of planned activities to help them maintain their abilities and encourage the use of their current skills. Brain games, dancing, cooking classes and music programs are just a few of the ways our residents enjoy their days. Along with our programming, you ll have peace of mind knowing that trained staff is on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Clare Bridge Daily Path is an evidence-based approach that offers a gentle daily structure of six planned programs per day, our routine that helps our residents maintain their abilities, encourage the use of their current skills, and offer a sense of security and accomplishment. Working in small cluster groups, each resident is surrounded by others with the same cognitive abilities, to give them a feeling of fitting in. Activities include a morning cognitive workout with discussions, brain games and physical fitness and movement classes like our B-Fit program, walking programs, and dancing.

Surrounded by your favorite things and people who love you that s home. Our apartments have plenty of natural window light, a private bathroom and some even have a garden view. We ll help you and your family prepare for the move with a move-in guide and a suggested list of what to bring so that your loved one s apartment is familiar and comforting.

Our Clare Bridge environments feature areas of the community that are set up for safe engagement in gardening, kitchen work, handyman help, and other household and normal daily tasks. Life skills activities provide a sense of purpose, meaning and belonging as residents complete tasks related to everyday life.

Our residents have a lot of choices. Craft classes, bingo, and movie night are just a few of activities included on the Daily Path. Our residents also enjoy devotional services, comedy hour, and fun social events like ice cream socials and mingle and mingle parties, too.

Residents also enjoy InTouch adventures. InTouch at Brookdale brings the outside world in with an intuitively designed touch-screen computer. With easy-to-use, picture-screen prompts, our residents with physical or cognitive limitations can launch a virtual world of discovery.

Our residents have a lot of choices. Craft classes, bingo, and movie night are just a few of activities included on the Daily Path. Our residents also enjoy devotional services, comedy hour, and fun social events like ice cream socials and mingle and mingle parties, too.

Residents also enjoy InTouch adventures. InTouch at Brookdale brings the outside world in with an intuitively designed touch-screen computer. With easy-to-use, picture-screen prompts, our residents with physical or cognitive limitations can launch a virtual world of discovery.

Did you know people living with dementia are at a greater risk for poor nutrition and weight loss? That s why we use mealtime as an opportunity to offer healthy menu choices and create a sense of belonging. With our award-winning Clare Bridge dining program, our residents enjoy dementia-friendly menus with familiar and easy-to-manage selections, small dining rooms with consistent pre-selected seating and personal dining assistance.

Your loved one can enjoy spending sunny days outside in one of our two courtyard areas. With a large patio area, a gazebo, walking paths, our backyard spaces are very popular with our residents. If your loved one enjoys gardening, we have raised gardening beds in the courtyard so our residents can plant flowers and vegetables. Your loved one can also join an art class in our arts and crafts studio. And residents love our convenient on-site beauty salon and barbershop for hair appointments.

Whether it s our Clare Bridge program for mid to late stages or our Solace program for the advanced stages of dementia, we have purposeful programs that offer the care you and your family need. Along with our programming, you ll have peace of mind knowing there is trained staff on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

With our Clare Bridge Solace Program, we help meet the unique needs of residents living with the advanced stages of dementia, striving to keep them engaged and continually making meaningful connections. Solace programming adds a layer of programming to engage sensory awareness and focus on comfort and joy.

Our exclusive Personalized Service System allows us to provide individually customized plans for your family member. Your customized plan means you only pay for the services you need and want. And we re flexible, so when your needs decrease or increase, your plan and its cost do, too.

As an alternative to psychotropic medications sometimes prescribed to manage behavioral expressions often associated with dementia, we ve developed a comprehensive problem-solving process that includes an entire team dedicated to uncovering the root of the behavioral issue. Sometimes addressing basic issues like pain, hunger or thirst or even an environment that s too hot or too cold, will resolve problems without the need to resort to medication.