Experience Something Different In Dementia Care – Atlas Villas Memory Care
Listen Live or Listen at Your Convenience Thursday – June 1st, 2023 – 2pm EST, 1pm CST, 12pm MST, 11am PST & 7pm London GMT, 9pm South Africa SAST, and on the 2nd at 6am in Australia AEDT
Our Host, Lori La Bey talks with Amber Gonion who is a wife, mom of 5, and step-mom of 2. She and her husband Rick are the proud owners of Atlas Villas Memory Care located in Centerville, Minnesota. Like so many people Amber and Rick were personally touched by dementia in their own family. Amber’s grandparents, Jack and Colleen Long, both lived with dementia in their later years. Rick and Amber were disappointed with what was available in memory care and so they researched and designed their own community, with some fantastic features we will be talking about today.
Inspired By Her Grandparents To Build A Different Design For Memory Care
WATCH A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE BUILDING
Learn:
- How is a small memory community different from a large community
- Why is their physical layout & design so different
- Lighting, Sunsets, Sunrise, Rain
- Spa
- Theater
- Street lights
- Front porch with benches and lighting
- Interaction and engagement
- Staff ratios
- StaffingTraining & Retention
- Supporting families & friends
- What about those residents who have been labeled as having “behaviors”