Life's Journey Senior Living - Paris is an attractive assisted living community in Paris, Illinois. It is within elegant Edgar County which is part of the Prairie State.
Our goal at Life’s Journey is to provide love, compassion, dignity, safety, and security for those suffering from memory loss. We all know how hard it is to lose our independence in life as age becomes a factor. The objective at our memory care community is to give our neighbors all the support they need to maintain their own independence for as long as they can. Also providing the dignity that they deserve and the compassion to help them through all of the obstacles that they struggle with in regards to their activities and tasks of daily living.
When a senior is dealing with Alzheimer’s or dementia, they require attentive and expert care in an environment that’s safe and secure. Memory care is a long-term senior care solution that provides just that. Life’s Journey Senior Living in Paris, IL designed to enhance our residents’ quality of life, preserve their sense of independence, and uphold their dignity.
Our Community can accommodate 24 neighbors. Providing 24-hour care to meet the physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and medical needs of each of our neighbors. We strive to provide a home-like atmosphere, by bringing in the community to participate through activities and one on one involvement. Providing well balanced meals with a dietician on hand to guide out kitchen staff in individual meal plans for any and all dietary needs. The kitchen serves three daily meals and three snacks. Our kitchen is not only open to requests, but it is also accessible 24-hours a day.
Our neighbor’s physical needs that are met daily include dressing, bathing, and other acts of daily living. We provide a beautician/barber onsite for weekly services. Our staff is here to help with the emotional challenges of being away from home. We provide social stability by encouraging interaction with other neighbors with monthly resident council meetings. These meetings allow our neighbors to have a voice to request what they would like to see in the oncoming months. We also have a full time activity director that provides daily activities and brings the community into their environment. When meeting the spiritual needs of our neighbors, we have a pastor that comes in to lead in prayer and worship every week.
We also administer medical services that provide care at many different levels for each individual neighbor. These services include around the clock nursing, monitoring and administration of medications, onsite portable X-ray, visiting physical therapy, visiting lab services, Respite care, 24-Hour Adult Day Care and Hospice Care.
Our neighbors are provided a private bedroom and bathroom with full laundry and housekeeping services. We pride ourselves in providing a home away from home environment to include each and every need our neighbors may have. Overall, our mission is to provide a warm, caring home away from home with great staff to honor love, compassion, dignity, safety, & security.
The main goal of memory care is to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s or dementia, not treat it. But in addition to that, we make it a point to enable the person dealing with this condition to feel a sense of purpose and enjoyment on a daily basis. This is accomplished through daily activities designed to engage residents mentally in an effort to reduce the effects of Alzheimer’s or dementia.
