Overview
- Memory Care, Large Community
- 32
Description
| Specialty Care / Memory Care |
| Our Philosophy of Care At Covenant Woods, the Philosophy of Care begins with our residents. Each resident has a customized Plan of Care that identifies the resident’s needs and documents changes in resident patterns. The Covenant Woods Care Associates who are charged with delivering the plans are specially trained to interact with elderly residents facing memory loss. They are trained to be positive, gentle, and encouraging while being very patient and aware of resident abilities.The many and varied structured activities are designed to include both physical and mental stimulation. They are scheduled throughout each day to keep residents occupied, engaged, and challenged. The staff includes licensed nurses who are on-site around the clock so that residents receive proper medications at the appropriate times. They also coordinate care and communicate with the residents’ personal physicians to ensure continuity of resident care.The dietary staff prepares nutritious meals and snacks that are tasty, well-balanced, and that can accommodate the broad range of eating skills encountered in persons with varying forms of dementia. Meals and snacks are enjoyed with staff members who “model” eating behaviors to enhance nutrition and hydration opportunities, which can be critical issues for residents with dementia. |
| Care at Covenant The care for each Covenant Resident is customized based on their specific and individual needs. Upon admission, a detailed plan is devised to guide the care staff to supportively address the Resident’s preferences and needs. The plan is inclusive of Residents’ preferred daily routines as well as their needs based on physical limitations. Each plan is designed with safety in mind but with the overall goal to extend and not to limit a Residents independence.Additionally, the Covenant Staff oversees medical care for our Residents and communicates timely and directly with sponsors and physicians to ensure that a Resident’s condition is appropriately known. Medications are “dose packaged” by our pharmacy partner and are managed by Covenant Staff to ensure accurate and timely dosing. New prescriptions are given to the nursing staff who in turn coordinates delivery with the pharmacy thus relieving sponsors of an unnecessary hassle. |
| Activities at Covenant At Covenant, multiple targeted activities throughout the day focus on social, physical and spiritual wellness. Each day begins with “Morning Medley”, a combination of humor and physical and mental exercises that keep minds and bodies active and oriented to date, time and place. We continue this focus throughout the day with word or number games that involve critical thinking. Other games focus on dexterity with the use of dice or cards. And, as one might guess, we play BINGO….At least twice each week because we have learned… “You don’t mess with Bingo”. In addition to these scheduled activities, each month will have a theme or big event. Recent past events have included Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Plays, dances, golf tournaments, Broadway Review Shows, Casino Nights and trips to Tuscaloosa to cruise on a paddle boat. This variety keeps the activities program fresh and interesting and always provides conversational topics for Residents and their families. |
Dining at Covenant
Meals at Covenant are both tasty and well-balanced. They are served “restaurant-style” in a casual dining setting. Each day starts with a traditional “southern” breakfast that offers options to accommodate everyone’s tastes. Lunch and Dinner at Covenant Place emphasize choice with multiple entrée and side options. Options also include a “soup of the day”, a variety of fresh salads or “always available” fast food items.At Covenant Woods, the lunches and dinners are pre-chosen based on the Residents’ food preferences. This avoids the stress and anxiety that can be present when persons with dementia are confronted with making decisions. The staff eats with the Residents to encourage a focus on meals and to promote dining as a social opportunity.At both Covenant Place and Covenant Woods, snacks and drinks are readily available throughout the day to satisfy those between the meal urges or to promote proper hydration
Address
Open on Google Maps- Zip/Postal Code 35071
- Area Alabama
