Extra Care Personal Care Home in Laurel, MS is a senior living community that helps older adults by offering different types of care, like assisted living, memory care, and independent living. Residents must meet a minimum age to move in. There are only ten licensed beds here, making it a smaller and more personal setting for care. The facility accepts pets like cats and dogs, and lets residents choose private or semi-private rooms, with options for 1-bedroom layouts. All rooms have emergency call systems, safety features, and easy access for wheelchairs, with special bathrooms that include wheelchair accessible showers and full tubs. Staff stay awake and available around the clock, offering help with personal care, transferring, bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Healthcare support covers regular visits from nurses, doctors, dentists, podiatrists, physical therapists, and speech therapists. Extra Care has special training for memory care and can support seniors with Alzheimer's or other dementia, including those who might wander or show challenging behaviors. They do blood sugar checks and insulin injections for diabetic care, and help with incontinence and restroom use, offering assisted transfers and even using mechanical lifts.
The facility has a no-smoking policy indoors, but there are outdoor smoking areas. Meals are provided and choices like kosher or vegetarian are available. Residents get nutritious snacks and can take part in social, educational, and recreational activities both indoors and offsite, which might be playing checkers, walking on nicely landscaped grounds, or joining a devotional service. People sit together in the dining room and share spaces like living rooms, which creates a cozy, home-like feeling where friendships can form. Extra Care offers transportation to places like doctor's appointments or excursions, and there's parking for residents. The community's close to bus lines, which can be convenient.
For those who need a break or special care, Extra Care offers respite care, hospice care, and adult day services, adjusting support as a person's needs change, which is called an "aging in place" model. Families can use published prices and get details about room rates, with average costs for a 1-bedroom memory care room at $3,400 and a semi-private room at $2,600. Extra Care aims to keep seniors safe with extras like medical alert systems, medication dispensers, and walk-in tubs, and provides guides for senior safety. There are also technology services specifically for seniors, including help with internet access, cable TV, hearing aids, and cell phones like the Jitterbug Phone. Amenities for home security and identity theft protection are offered too.
The staff are friendly, experienced, and well-trained. They pay attention to each resident's needs and well-being, and strive to create a supportive atmosphere. People who live here can age in place, which means they don't have to move as their care needs increase. Extra Care helps families find options with help from SeniorAdvisor.com and has earned a 4.0-star rating from reviews. The community provides personal care and supports both independence and health in a warm setting, focusing on helping seniors stay comfortable, active, and engaged as they grow older.
