Compassionate Alzheimer’s Care in McKinney and Argyle, TX
If you have a family member with Alzheimer’s Disease, you know how devastating it is for the person experiencing it. You also know how challenging it is for friends and family to provide the support and care your loved one needs. Safety, behavioral issues, and advancing symptoms can tax the most dedicated and loving families.
Exceptional Alzheimer’s Care in McKinney and Argyle, Texas
Often, there comes a time it becomes necessary to find professional memory care assistance in order to provide your loved one a safe and fulfilling life. Teresa’s House in McKinney and Argyle, Texas, offers award-winning, exceptional Alzheimer care communities with compassionate, experienced caregivers, cognition support, and a comforting, familiar environment.
Supportive Alzheimer’s Care in a Home-Like Setting
Changes in living environments and schedules can disorient Alzheimer’s residents, so Teresa’s House has created a comfortable home with reliable routines, familiar rooms, pleasant common spaces, and safe outdoor areas. We designed our memory communities to preserve maximum dignity and to support cognitive abilities.
Our compassionate, professional and highly trained teams provide loving interaction, stimulating activities, and individualized “concierge” programming that invigorates your loved one with enjoyable engagement. Caregivers are available 24/7 for kind, attentive care, and only licensed nurses and certified staff members administer medications.
Safe, Secure Alzheimer’s Care
As Alzheimer’s Disease progresses, memory lapses can cause some people to wander and become lost. Our entire memory resident supports residents in enjoying maximum independence both indoors and outdoors thanks to the secure perimeter of our expansive property. We provide a safe yet supportive environment to ensure our residents live enriched lives with the greatest independence and mobility possible.
Therapeutic Programming to Support and Stimulate Cognition
We treat each of our residents as individuals, getting to know each person and learning who they are and what they enjoy. Our professional caregivers determine what will best support each person’s physical, emotional, and psychological well-being and design individualized daily schedules accordingly.
Residents can engage in meaningful activities that provide fun, cognitive stimulation, social interaction, and physical well-being. Intergenerational programs, musical programs, and exercise classes are just the beginning.
Certain activities support memory, so we offer a wide range of them and invite participation according to the individual interests of our memory care residents. Some examples include gardening in raised beds, cooking, and pet therapy. Residents also enjoy pet therapy which includes equine therapy. We have an amazing activity center at both campuses that house a vintage car in each, both have retro kitchens, a man cave with flat screen tv’s – memory care at its best!
Social stimulation activates cognition, so we encourage our residents to enjoy interaction with others at every opportunity. Our residents participate in singalongs, musical entertainment, games, and other social activities. They attend art classes, socialize in our inviting common areas, and celebrate with festive holiday celebrations.
Exceptional, Home-like Environment
Part of helping our residents feel at home is providing a warm, homelike environment. Our homes are illuminated with warm lighting, not buzzing fluorescent tubes. You won’t find any of the sterile features commonly found at other institutions such as hospital beds, nurses stations and orderlies in scrubs. Each resident has a beautifully arranged private suite and bathroom with huge walk in shower that can be personalized. Our residents bring favorite pieces of furniture, familiar art and décor items, and family photos to place around their personal spaces. Bathrooms are up-to-date, beautiful, and elegant but are first designed for safety.
While our suites are private, we offer many homey common areas for socializing. We encourage family and friends to drop in; each of the homes at Teresa’s House offers several comfortable seating areas so residents can spend time visiting with friends, children, grandchildren, social groups, and each other.
Food is at the heart of any welcoming home. At Teresa’s House, our open kitchen and executive chef-crafted, family-style dining enables residents to build social relationships and experience a sense of family. Family and friends can join us for meals too, it is home.
Physical activity provides enjoyment and social interaction, and preliminary studies have shown that it can help improve cognitive function and reduce symptoms of Alzheimer’s, such as depression, apathy, wandering, disturbed sleep, and agitation. Our safe, beautifully landscaped grounds and 8,000-square-foot courtyard welcomes residents to breathe, move, and enjoy the outdoors.
Supportive Alzheimer’s Care by Professionally Trained Caregivers
Your loved one deserves the highest levels of care that will keep them healthy, happy, and living their best life. At Teresa’s House, we carefully train all our staff members to provide loving encouragement and tailored programming that best supports the cognition and well-being of our Alzheimer’s residents.
Therapeutic Programming
Therapeutic programming and support can positively affect cognition and the unwanted behaviors that sometimes accompany Alzheimer’s disease. Our professionally trained caregivers put their whole hearts into the engaging activities that improve residents’ quality of life. As you research Alzheimer’s facilities, you will find this a rare amenity.
Experienced Nurses on Site
Your family member lives in Teresa’s House around the clock, so we have licensed nursing on-site 24/7 for safety and care. Only certified medication assistants or nurses manage medication delivery for accuracy and safety.
Professionally Trained Healthcare Specialists
Each resident has different strengths, needs, and personalities so we employ only professionally trained healthcare specialists who understand the disease and provide unparalleled understanding, care, and support for your loved one. Every staff member participates in ongoing training to stay up to date with the latest information and recommendations.
Those with Alzheimer’s disease thrive in an atmosphere of personal care, familiarity, and predictability. We make every effort to ensure the same individual care for your loved one, providing hands-on, comforting continuity. We maintain a 1:5 caregiver-to-resident ratio during waking hours to provide true personalization and exceptional care.
Why Choose Teresa’s House for Alzheimer’s Care?
We built Teresa’s house with particular attention to Alzheimer’s and dementia care, and it shows and regularly recognized. We’ve won the Best of McKinney multiple times, the Best of Denton County, Living Magazine’s Best of Reader’s Choice, Best of Assisted Living from Assisted Living Magazine, and most recently the Best in Memory Care in McKinney, and Best in Memory Care in Denton County from Assisted Living Magazine.
Our leadership team has over 60 years of experience in senior care in the DFW Metroplex. Our co-founders, Teresa Whittington, RN, BSN and Godwin G. DIxon, NFA, designed Teresa’s House to encourage and foster relationships, enrich the lives of all our residents, and provide solutions for each person to live with purpose.
Teresa’s House residences are genuine homes in secure, safe communities with compassionate, professional care. Teresa’s House in McKinney is just a short drive from one of the largest Collin County communities and is convenient for excellent health care for its residents. Teresa’s House Argyle provides outstanding Alzheimer’s care that Denton residents appreciate and is just a short distance from Fort Worth families whose loved ones need Alzheimer’s care. We have all the essential memory care features – easy-to-access locations, expert professional care, special features for residents with memory impairment, plus a rich set of amenities that provide a fulfilling life for all our residents.
Contact Teresa’s House today. We’d love to show you around either of our communities and demonstrate how Teresa’s House can provide the warm, expert care your loved one deserves.
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