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Every Option You Need Beginning At Home

The Tanglewood Group understands the intricacies of caring for those with memory problems and the challenges caregivers face.  As a caregiver for someone with dementia, you never get a day off.  Wishing for a day to yourself or a reprieve from your responsibility adds a layer of guilt to your mental burden.

A Memory Care Support Group offering an outlet for frustration and promise for greater quality of interactions with your loved one will alleviate stress for both.  Memory Café is a FREE support group that is uniquely offered to both caregiver and those cared for.  The group gathers with Nicole Mucheck, a trained behavior specialist who has day to day experience dealing with many unique individuals who suffer differently with dementia.  The Support Group is but one specialized option for families suffering from the impact of memory impairment.

Partners in Care Homecare is a desirable option when it still makes sense to keep your loved one at home, and is provided by the same trained professionals employed by Memory Garden.  Our certified caregivers are trained in the stages of dementia, how it manifests for each individual differently, and strategies to address behaviors as well as maintaining safety in the home and community.  Each of our home care clients are provided with an individualized care plan developed by our on staff RN. Care plans include tasks associated with daily living but also activities of interest to stimulate our client’s memories and remain active in their environment.

Caring for a loved one in their home gives comfort to everyone involved.  Home is familiar, offers a sense of security, and oftentimes minimizes the guilt felt by the caregiver.  As this disease progresses though, communication becomes challenging, judgment is impaired, and the evil of isolation and inactivity sets in. Isolation and inactivity is a huge contributor to decline.  It is at this point in the disease that one might consider Memory Garden, a dedicated Assisted Living Facility that specializes solely in memory care.  Memory Garden was designed with memory impairment in mind.  When the environment promotes a sense of independence among the impaired, the caregivers focus far less on deficits and far more on ability.   Carmen Hlosta, Director of Certification-Medicaid Chautauqua County states it best; “the goal is always the right care at the right time and place”, however, very often the call for service comes too late. Your loved one has bypassed the ability to remain at home or even thrive at the level of assisted living and needs long term nursing care or hospice.  Call us when you first notice signs of dementia in your loved one.  As the community experts on dementia, we want to be your resource.

There are approximately 5.5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2017 and nearly one in every three seniors who dies each year has a form of dementia according to the Alzheimer’s Association. As an agency that cares deeply about those living with dementia, we commit to funding research for a cure.  While that is our hope for the future, today we spend our days making a positive impact on the quality of life for the families we serve.  “Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.”  – Maya Angelou

The Tanglewood Group is proud to be a for-profit business paying our share of taxes, contributing to the tax base and reducing the tax burden for everybody in the community.  Still, we continue to provide similar pricing as the non-profit facilities in our area.  We employ over 200 people and continue to seek qualified caregivers with values measured by their commitment to caring.

When you think dementia care, think the Tanglewood Group, your local community experts. Contact the Tanglewood Group to learn about our variety of services at 716-488-9434 or visit http://www.tanglewoodmanor.com.