Premier Memory Care Community in Germantown, TN
The Gardens of Germantown is a unique memory care community in Germantown, Tennessee. Beginning with the residential areas, you will find we’re organized into small, intimate neighborhoods designed expressly for those with Alzheimer’s, other forms of dementia, or memory loss. We offer multiple floor plans and options for each resident. Thoughtful amenities and supportive services abound, all focused on maximizing the quality of life for your loved one.
Residents get to know their neighbors and make new friends. Best of all, residents feel more connected and cared about from day one. Each neighborhood has its own dining and living area—just like home!
First Senior Living Community Dedicated to Memory Care in Germantown, TN
Established in 2011, The Gardens of Germantown is a memory care community with three neighborhoods designed with your loved one in mind. Each neighborhood focuses on the different stages of memory loss, so as the disease progresses, we can move your family member into the best retirement community for their senior care needs. Our neighborhoods focus on the following:
- Assisted living with cognitive support for early-onset dementia & Alzheimer’s residents
- Mild cognitive impairment living
- Severe cognitive impairment in living
The Gardens of Germantown is the first dedicated memory care community in Germantown, Tennessee. Our senior care living residences are conveniently located near Poplar Pike and Forest Hill Irene between Germantown and Collierville.
Whether you’re ready now or just beginning to think about dementia care, we invite you to stop by or call to schedule a tour at your convenience. We serve you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What is the Difference Between Memory Care & Assisted Living Communities?
When searching for a place for your loved one, you’ve likely encountered terms like assisted living and memory care. The key difference is that while assisted living can be for any senior, memory care is specialized to help seniors with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or any other impairments. Both have nurses, social events, and a community of residents, but memory care communities have unique features, such as individualized programming designed to support cognitive abilities and skilled nurses with additional training to care for seniors with memory loss.
Our memory care community, though, is different. We’re not designed to be a traditional memory care facility that can be similar to a nursing home. Instead, we’re a memory care living community using a social model. We value each resident and determine their care based on a comprehensive assessment that identifies their functions, personalities, and needs.
Personalized Social Model of Memory Care
Our team uses a social model of memory care instead of a clinical model, allowing residents to be treated like people instead of patients while receiving high-quality medical care. We keep track of our residents’ abilities to see how the disease progresses to determine the level of care needed for each individual. For example, if a resident who used to be able to get out of bed by themselves now needs assistance, that may be a sign of the disease progressing.
Elderly care must be personalized, especially when a memory care facility is involved. Our caregivers will provide individualized, top-notch dementia care to any resident that requires it. Each building contains its own staff, allowing residents to build relationships with our skilled nurses and caregiver team. It isn’t just dementia care. We also provide personalized care to people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Engaging Activities for All
All of our residents will get a chance to participate in the same events and activities, although with different levels of engagement based on their cognitive ability and the stage of their disease. For example, residents in our early-onset memory loss living hall will have a more hands-on event experience than residents in our severe memory care living hall, who will attend their own version of the event with more staff support.
Germantown Lifestyle Journal
As part of our personalized care plan, our staff and you will sit down during our initial visit and begin work on the lifestyle journal. We know how monumental this move in life can be, so we want to ensure our staff gets to know more about the resident’s history and their potential behaviors. We ask the family to help complete the lifestyle journal by move-in day. After the completion of the journal, we will review our care plan with you so that you have a say in how your loved one is treated while in our care.
Lifestyle journals are the centerpiece of our memory care social model. Each journal is filled with major events and memories from the resident’s life, such as a wedding day, past job, military experience, etc. We use this journal to get to know your loved one and have a catalog of their experiences to help monitor their cognitive progression while living in Germantown.
Progressive Memory Care for Every Stage of Dementia
Each resident will be placed in a specific hall tailored to the level of their cognitive ability and the stage of their disease. Each hall has its own dedicated staff, allowing each resident to develop personal relationships with their care partners. Each staff member is dedicated to getting to know and understand each resident and is highly trained to track the progression of their mental condition.
We use several assessments to monitor each resident’s progression, but we never lose sight of the real person. We use the lifestyle journal to connect with the resident and see how their disorder has affected their recollection ability based on the memories put in the journal. This means our staff can quickly determine when it is time for a resident to move to a new building based on the progression of their Alzheimer’s, organic brain syndrome, or other memory disorder.
A Memory Care Community with Different Neighborhoods
Our community is specially designed to provide care and comfort in a secure environment for those with dementia, Alzheimer’s, or another memory disorder. Our memory care team members and skilled nurses are trained to respect and value each resident, recognizing their preferences and needs, empowering them to be themselves, and helping them live purposefully. We have a hall designed for each stage of memory loss, from early-onset dementia living to severe cognitive impairment.
Hall Beale: Early-Onset Memory Loss Living
In our early-onset memory loss community, your loved one can socialize, interact, and spend time with other seniors in the hall. Typically, these residents have fewer sensory issues than residents in our other two halls, which enables events in Beal to be more hands-on. Beal residents can handle more sensory functions; you’ll often hear music, conversations, and laughter from this hall. Our cognitive support assisted living is perfect for residents who can still function independently but need more support than an independent living community offers.
Poplar Hall: Mild Cognitive Impairment Community
At Poplar, your loved one will receive personalized care designed for their changing needs. Residents will enjoy tailored community events that manage sensory awareness, keeping them engaged, and promoting a sense of peace and joy. Because residents at Poplar typically need more help performing daily functions like getting out of bed, our caring staff will be there to help them while prioritizing their sense of dignity and comfort.
Union Hall: Severe Memory Care Community
Union Hall prioritizes making the latest stages of dementia as meaningful as possible. Here, care teams work one-on-one with your loved one to ensure their comfort, health, and safety needs are always met. Union Hall’s staff is dedicated to maximizing our residents’ days through specially curated events, compassionate personal care services, and advanced hospice care for those who need it.
Trustworthy Memory Care Community
“My mother moved in last month. She has been doing better than she has in over a year. She is well taken care of, enjoying herself, and is smiling again! The staff is so helpful and very caring.”
– Mary Benton
Our Memory Care Lifestyle Options
Our community is specially designed to provide care and comfort in a secure environment for those with early-onset to severe cognitive impairment. Our memory care facility team members and skilled nurses are trained to respect and value each resident, recognizing their preferences and needs; empowering them to be themselves and live purposefully.
Memory Care
Our community is specially designed to provide care and comfort in a secure environment for those with early-onset to severe cognitive impairment. Our memory care facility team members and skilled nurses are trained to respect and value each resident, recognizing their preferences and needs; empowering them to be themselves and live purposefully.
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Memory Care Apartment Floor Plans & Pricing
Enrich your loved one’s retirement at Vitality Living’s The Gardens of Germantown, Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind retirement community dedicated to memory care. Designed to promote security and comfort, our 55+ senior apartment floor plans are tailor-made for the different stages of memory loss for those with early-onset to severe cognitive impairment. Whether you seek dementia care or Alzheimer’s care, our retirement community has a place your loved one can call home. We offer two spacious, luxurious floor plans. Our memory care unit offers a private (270 square feet) and companion (353 square feet) senior studio apartment. Check out the floor plans below and schedule a visit today!
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Services & Amenities
- Kitchenette with sink
- Handicap accessible bathroom
- Walk-in shower
- Specialized memory care community
- Progressive memory care services
- Ongoing dementia training and support for staff
- Licensed nurse available 24 hours a day
- Activities designed for residents based on their abilities
- Daily programs, events, and outings
- Medication assistance
- Specialized diets available
- Housekeeping and linen services
- Personal laundry services
- 24 Hour security system
- Transportation
- Beauty/barber shop
- Courtyard and garden
- Arts & crafts studio
- Coffee bar
- Nurse pull cords in every room
- Studio or companion apartment styles available
- Three neighborhoods designed to serve residents at varying stages of dementia
- Three freshly prepared meals served daily
- Respite care available
- Wound care services
- Diabetic care
- Snacks and beverages provided throughout the day
- On-site physical, occupational, and speech therapy
- Routine visits by primary care physicians
- Podiatrist visits
- Transportation services available
- Coordination of care with hospice and home health providers
- Walking paths
- Wi-Fi access throughout
- Landscaped grounds
- Living room with piano
- Postal services
- On-site physical and outpatient therapy is available
- Innovative Eye Watch LIVE™ Memory Care Technology
First Senior Living Community Dedicated to Memory Care in Germantown, TN
Established in 2011, The Gardens of Germantown is the first memory care community in Germantown, with three unique neighborhoods designed with your loved one in mind. Each neighborhood focuses on the different stages of memory loss, so as the disease progresses, we can move your family member into the best retirement community for their senior care needs. Our neighborhoods focus on the following:
- Assisted living with cognitive support for early-onset dementia & Alzheimer’s residents
- Mild cognitive impairment living
- Severe cognitive impairment in living
Our 55+ senior apartments offer a wide range of floor plans and options. Thoughtful amenities and supportive services abound, all focused on maximizing the quality of life for your loved one. Residents get to know their neighbors and make new friends. Best of all, residents feel more connected and cared about from day one. Each neighborhood has its own dining and living area—just like home!
For visiting adult children and families, the Gardens of Germantown Memory Care is just minutes from Memphis and Cordova, Tennessee. We are also conveniently close to Collierville, TN, Bartlett, TN, Millington, TN, Olive Branch, MS, Southaven, MS, Horn Lake, MS, Lewisburg, MS, Pleasant Hill, MS, Handy Corner, MS, and other North Mississippi communities. For residents, the Germantown location is convenient to Methodist Germantown and Baptist Collierville Hospitals for health care and also to shopping, dining, and entertainment venues, including the Germantown Performing Arts Center, for organized events and outings.
Whether you’re ready now or just beginning to think about organic brain syndrome care, we invite you to stop by or call to schedule a tour at your convenience. We serve you 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Frequently Asked Memory Care Questions (FAQs)
After we have completed a thorough intake assessment, which includes a personalized lifestyle journal, our staff determines the level of memory care required for each resident. We work with you to help plan their memory care treatment. However, this is an ongoing process. By following our social model of care, our dedicated staff gets to know each individual resident. They closely monitor each resident’s memory loss and ability to handle daily functions, which helps them determine when they need to move to a more advanced hall.
We do provide 24-hour care. However, our caregivers are assigned residents per unit based on community occupancy. When you first come in, we will assess your loved one’s level of mental impairment. After our assessment, we will review your loved one’s results with you to determine the best care plan moving forward. We do allow residents to have an independent sitter with them if they’d prefer.
Just like the knowledge surrounding brain diseases is constantly evolving, we constantly have ongoing on-site training. We require all our caregivers to take continuing education courses through our learning provider, Relias, and provide National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioner training. That way, if anything changes in the world of memory care, our staff remains up-to-date, knowledgeable, and reliable.
The terms memory care and dementia care are typically used interchangeably, although memory care can refer more generally to any person with memory loss, regardless of whether Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia is the cause. Our memory care community, for example, helps seniors with dementia. The term itself does not mean a different type of care in the community.
For visiting adult children and families, our senior care living residences are just minutes from Memphis and Cordova, Tennessee, as well as Olive Branch and other North Mississippi communities. For residents, the Germantown location is convenient to Methodist Germantown and Baptist Collierville Hospitals for health care and shopping, dining, and entertainment venues, including the Germantown Performing Arts Center for organized events and outings.
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THE GARDENS OF GERMANTOWN
3179 PROFESSIONAL PLAZA DR GERMANTOWN, TN 38138