With dementia, even small successes can become big wins. If you and your family are looking for a memory care community, Brookdale Murraysville 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.
At our community, state-of-the-art care meets a passion for painting. Our 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.
Surrounded by your favorite things and people who love you that s home. We ll help your family make your loved one s apartment familiar and comfortable with a move-in guide and a suggested list of what to bring. Our community is a single-story community so you won t have to worry about stairs or elevators. Our studio apartments have plenty of natural window light and a private bathroom. Some even have a garden view, and you also have a companion suite option. Best of all, we re a pet-friendly community. After all, pets are family, too.
Brookdale Murrysville was also designed to keep your loved one safe. And all of our exterior doors are alarmed to ensure that no resident leaves the community without notice. Our community s interior spaces are scaled and decorated like those of a private home, so residents feel comfortable and secure in their surroundings.
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. Crafting classes, bowling, and bingo are just a few of the activities included on the Daily Path. Our residents also enjoy devotional services, cooking demonstrations, movie night and gardening, too.
Music is an important part of life at Brookdale Murrysville with karaoke and sing-a-longs. Residents also enjoy InTouch virtual tours 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.
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. Crafting classes, bowling, and bingo are just a few of the activities included on the Daily Path. Our residents also enjoy devotional services, cooking demonstrations, movie night and gardening, too.
Music is an important part of life at Brookdale Murrysville with karaoke and sing-a-longs. Residents also enjoy InTouch virtual tours 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. 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.
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.
Your loved one can enjoy sunny days outside in our large enclosed courtyard or meet up with friends in the game room for trivia or board games. Your loved one could also pick out a new novel to read from our library. 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.
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.
You and your family may have questions about medications. As an alternative to psychotropic medications sometimes prescribed to manage behavioral expressions, 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.