Exceptional alzheimer’s care

Experience a community that feels like home and a staff that loves and cares like they’re family.

Learn About Care Options for Your Loved One with Alzheimer’s

Our lives are made up of memories; Memories of friends, family, of good times, and obstacles overcome. So when a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, it can feel overwhelming. The truth is that a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is life-altering for everyone involved – not just the individual with the diagnosis. 

Do you have questions about Alzheimer’s?

Are you curious about innovative care and therapy options?

Maybe you just want to visit and experience a memory care community to get a better sense of future options?

A community that feels like home, but provides state-of-the-art memory care. 

Alzheimer’s FAQ

Depending on where you are in your Alzheimer’s care journey, you’re likely to have many questions. Let’s start with a few basic questions.

Kensington Park, a Dedicated Memory Care Community

At Kensington Park, we understand the challenges and concerns that come with Alzheimer’s and memory loss and we value our residents with the utmost respect and dignity. We love and care for your family as we do our own. We recognize that the family is an essential part of this journey. That’s why we have thoughtfully designed a state-of-the-art, personalized memory care program that benefits all kinds of resident and family situations. 

With an especially high staff-to-resident ratio, we can offer highly individualized, comfortable, and peaceful care by providing your loved one with the following loving support:

3 unique levels of Memory Care: 

• Assisted Living includes  the Kensington Club – specialized day programming 
• Memory Care includes two unique neighborhoods of care – Connections and Haven
• Licensed nurse on-site 24/7
• Dedicated Director of Memory Care
• Specialized Memory Care team
  • Full-time Memory Care Supervisor
  • Director of Nursing Services
  • Full-Time Connections Activity Coordinator
  • Full-Time Haven Activities Coordinator
  • Dedicated Activities staff 7 days a week
  • Primary Care Managers
    • Memory care training: Silverchair and Alzheimer’s Association 
• Comprehensively trained caregivers and staff
• Psychological and psychiatric services
• On-site physical, occupational and speech therapies
• Director of Family Services

We believe in supporting our residents’ strengths and working towards finding unique ways to bring beauty in each moment.

We believe that each resident is extremely valuable and important – regardless of the extent of his or her memory loss. That’s why we don’t believe in one-size-fits-all care. Instead, we match it to best fit each individual. We provide individual services such as:

• Extensive support programs
  • Wheelchair assistance
  • Two-person or three-person assists
  • Wound care
  • Hospice
• Medication and diabetes management 
• Rehabilitation
  • Physical
  • Occupational
  • Speech
• Accommodation of special diets all overseen by a registered dietitian
  • Diabetic
  • Renal
  • Gluten-free
  • Vegetarian
  • Open seating with table linens and fiestaware
  • Hydration program
  • Focus on healthy meals that include foods high in antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids and B complex vitamins

State-of-the-Art Alzheimer’s Therapies

Kensington Park is a unique memory care community, we create individualized service plans that are specially tailored to each resident based upon their personal desires and needs – not only physical, but also cognitive, and spiritual, as we believe each to be of equal importance. To enrich our residents’ lives we offer:

• 14 and 45 day post-move in family meetings, then every 6 months
• Regular family nights
• Regular support groups facilitated by our Director of Family Services
• In house board-certified Music therapy
• Art therapy
• Pocket Programming (Specialized small-group activities)
• Early Intervention Kensington Club
• Memory care begins in our Assisted Living neighborhood, specifically designed for residents with new diagnosis of dementia-related cognitive disorders

Early Intervention Kensington Club

Our full time, designated Kensington Club coordinator designs and implements individualized programming aimed to slow progression of the disease. This gathering meets in a designated space 7 days a week with between ten to twelve residents. With a small group setting such as this, it provides an intimate environment where smiles and new friends can be made.

• Special outings to museums, restaurants, theaters, local parks and other attractions
• Daily activities such as baking, gardening, exercising, discussing current events, lectures, art and music, and specialized brain fitness activities that stimulate cognitive ability and memory

Specialized Memory Care Communities

We believe that each resident deserves to live in a community that is best suited for them and their individual degree of memory loss. To ensure that our residents receive the most beneficial and appropriate care for their individual circumstances, we distinguish our community into two different “neighborhoods.”

We Love and Care for Your Family As We Do Our Own

Though Alzheimer’s can be a tough journey, it is one that your family doesn’t need to go through alone. At the Kensington, we are proud to serve as your caregiver-partner so that your time spent with your loved one can be full of smiles, laughter, and memorable moments. We encourage family and friends to come visit your loved one as often as possible, though you can rest assured knowing that when you are not here, your loved one is in compassionate, capable, and knowledgeable hands. 

If your loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and is experiencing memory loss – no matter the stage – the Kensington is here to help.

A Community Centered on Loving Care

Where your loved one can feel at home, with an exceptionally caring team.