Shawnee Estates Senior Living gives older adults many choices for living and help, offering independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and continuing care all on one campus, and residents must be 55 or older to move in. The building has a safe layout with easy-to-navigate halls, ground floor rooms, and emergency call systems in every apartment, plus the exterior doors stay locked and staff watches over the community all day and night, with a licensed Health Care Director always on call. Semi-private, single, and studio apartments all have their own thermostat, full-size bathrooms with wheelchair accessible showers, and some even come with a fireplace or front porch sitting area, while the outdoor spaces offer gardens, raised beds, covered patios, and a fenced-in courtyard for safe wandering. People can bring pets if they want, there's guest parking out front, and no smoking's allowed indoors.
Residents get three meals a day, snacks in the café, and all basic utilities included in one monthly fee, except the phone bill, and can eat in the main dining room, private family room, or bistro, where meals come restaurant-style with special diets handled when needed. There's housekeeping, laundry, and dry cleaning, plus an on-site hair salon, barber, and beauty shop, some of it for a little extra cost, making it simple to keep up with daily needs. Medication help, reminders, and skilled nursing get provided right in the building, and care also covers respite for short stays, hospice, and care for incontinence.
The staff includes trained aides and nurses on duty around the clock, with special memory care training and the Best Friends™ approach used in the Chronicles program for Alzheimer's and dementia, paying attention to each resident's life story and what they can do now. Memory care rooms get locked for safety, and daily activities focus on keeping people's minds working-arts, crafts, music, games, support groups, and trips out of the building by community van, along with both on- and offsite religious services for faith support.
Therapy services include access to physical and occupational therapists, and there's a fitness room for group or solo sessions. Social life's steady with a busy calendar-there's a billiard lounge, TV and fireside living rooms, library, music room, meeting areas, and both indoor and outdoor recreation areas for family visits or just sitting with others. The environment aims for a cozy, home-like feel where staff, residents, and families get to know each other, so people don't have to feel like a number.
Shawnee Estates has programs to help understand and use veterans' benefits, help with financial advice, and explain ways to pay with personal funds, home sales, or insurance, and can talk about long-term care through Medicare and Medicaid. The community accepts a wide range of needs, whether someone wants active and social independence or must have more hands-on care as health changes, and their care teams keep people's health plans up to date by listening closely to what families and residents want and need.
