Memory Care Clarendon Hills

Exceptional Memory Care Support

The Birches Memory Care Community offers optional assistance with activities of daily living, medication management, and other services for our residents.

We are the only credentialed Montessori Inspired Lifestyle senior-living community in Illinois and one of eighteen communities nationwide.

That means the Birches Memory Care team works every day to create a failure-free environment. We focus on resident-led activities, including preserving an individual's abilities and strengths. Assisted living communities have a duty to uplift and encourage their residents, and we take that responsibility to heart.

We offer help with everyday tasks based on individual needs determined by you, your family members, and your physician.

Memory Care Dining

Our Culinary department provides healthy, delicious meals three times each day and provides an array of snacks for residents between meals. We are also able to customize menu options for our memory care residents should they have special dietary needs.

Our comprehensive nutrition program is tailored for each resident, and we also incorporate hydration into a resident's nutrition and structured programming plans.

Depending on a resident's service plan, we offer menu choices or bring out a sample plate for a resident to choose from. Seeing a sample plate can be more helpful for someone living with memory loss since a written menu may not be as readily understood.

Above all, we tailor our approach for every resident based on what they do and don't like and their communication style.

As part of our focus on providing routines for our memory residents, we designate a special seat for each resident in the dining room. This encourages familiarity and conversation with the same group of residents, further encouraging routine and structure.

Technology Assistance

Our technology assistance services are free and can help residents resolve computer, email, and other technology issues upon request.

On-site Beauty and Barbershop

Visiting stylists or barbers may use our on-site salon and shop to give haircuts, style hair, and provide manicures or pedicures for residents.

Geriatric Specialist

At the Birches, we provide regular office hours with a Geriatric Specialist two times per week. Residents are always welcome to have their physician visit as well.

Rehabilitation & Therapy Services

In addition to the many group exercise and wellness programs we offer, physical, occupational, and speech therapy.

These therapies support memory care residents who are working to recover their mobility or health after injury or illness. Therapy can also help residents maintain their current mobility and balance, which helps protect their independence.

A Registered Nurse (RN) oversees each resident's rehabilitation or therapy plan while skilled therapists provide the services. For convenience, we maintain a list of Preferred Providers our residents may select, though residents are always welcome to choose any home health agency they prefer.

Laundry Services

We also provide weekly laundry service for our memory care residents, including four loads of sheets, towels, and clothing.

Unlike other memory care facilities, we wash each resident's laundry separately, so there's no need to label clothing.

We readily accommodate detergent allergies for our residents.

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We also partner with the following outside service care professionals.

Legacy Healthcare for PT/OT/ Speech (full-time on-site)
Registered dietician consultations
Visiting dentist, podiatrist, audiologist, and other medical professionals as requested
Neuropsychological evaluations and counseling
Psychologists to provide talk therapy
Spiritual support from local chaplains
Home Health Care
Hospice support for end-of-life care

Housekeeping

In addition to keeping our community areas spotless, our housekeeping team also cleans individual apartments weekly.

We apply the same high standard of cleanliness here as we do to community spaces at our memory care community in Clarendon Hills. And we always respect our residents' privacy.

Apartment cleaning includes:

Kitchen area hand wiped and sanitized
Doors and door frames spot cleaned
Window sills, ledges, and blinds dusted
Hard-surfaced floors: vacuumed and damp mopped
All readily accessible floors vacuumed
Steam cleaning for non-carpeted areas as needed
Carpets spot cleaned as needed
Empty closet floors vacuumed
General dusting

Bathrooms:

Bathroom tile walls and showers cleaned and sanitized
Vanity and sink cleaned and sanitized
Mirrors and chrome fixtures cleaned and shined
Floors cleaned/ damp mopped, steam cleaned as needed
Toilets thoroughly cleaned

Deep Clean

Upon Request. No cost if cleaning is done every 6 months.

Carpet cleaned
Inside windows
Heavy knickknack area dusted
Upholstery cleaned upon request, larger item may be a cost

Disinfection

We have three R-Zero hospital-grade UV-C light units. R-Zero is the most powerful UV-C light disinfection device. It destroys over 99.99% of pathogens.

UV-C disinfection is recommended by the CDC. It is more effective than manual disinfection, which misses more than 50% of surfaces. R-Zero Arc emits up to 109% more germ-killing light.

R-Zero's hospital-grade UV system, Arc, provides a critical layer of added protection to important senior living spaces - including private rooms and apartments, dining halls, activity rooms, lounges, and more.

Our Housekeeping team frequently cleans and disinfects our community spaces, and we ramped up our safety measures with the arrival of COVID-19.

State Of The Art Safety & Security for Memory Care Residents

As part of our focus on safety and well-being, we do secure our memory care community. We secure this area because it is smaller and less overwhelming to someone living with memory loss. That means it is safer for residents to explore within this area if they choose, too.

Our team members perform regular checks on all entrances and exits to ensure the area stays secure. We have various cameras that allow us to be proactive if a resident should leave the memory care community.

Our outdoor patio and walking path are both enclosed and secured. This allows our residents to freely explore outside if they'd like.

Vigil Dementia System

In addition to these safety measures, our Vigil Dementia System is used within our memory care community in Clarendon Hills. It's a silent paging system that becomes personalized to an individual resident's habits and schedule.

If a resident gets out of bed or opens a door, the system will silently alert our team members in the resident's neighborhood. A team member will then check in on the resident and reset the alarm.

Memory Care in Clarendon Hills, IL

The Birches team is specially trained in dementia care exceeding minimum regulatory standards.