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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is middle of the road stage 6 dementia but is still pretty engaged even though her memory is shot.  Her memory care residents range from people who are almost okay to people who are pretty much vegetative.  Her place has lots of activities every day, and field trips once a week for those who are able.  They get everyone out of their rooms to engage.

I toured every memory care in a 30 minute radius.  I’ve learned that closer is better.  Ignore online reviews, I found some places had staff reviewing them and my mom’s assisted living was the highest rated and just awful.  The memory care place with the best reviews felt like a prison to me- it was dark and smelled like urine and everyone was completely disengaged.

I moved my mom from rehab directly to memory care after a fall (it was time anyway) so I needed a place that would put eyeballs on her because she was wheelchair bound initially and would never remember she couldn’t get up and use the restroom by herself.  I picked a place where the staff physically puts eyeballs on the residents every hour, even throughout the night.  One place used motion detectors at night and would respond to motion but I thought that might be too late.

Once I’d almost decided I went by several times to visit during different timeframes and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves doing some sort of activity or another.  My moms place has therapy dogs that come in about once a week and they have “live concerts” once or twice a week.  Engagement is key.[/quote]

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