Our Community

Brookdale Dowlen Oaks offers 76 apartments situated on two floors. Our apartments are much more spacious than other assisted living communities in the area. We offer three different senior apartment sizes and we offer a secured Memory Care neighborhood for residents with Alzheimer’s and/or dementia.

From the moment you walk through the door you will feel like you are at home. Our common areas provide many opportunities for socializing with friends and family or even just relaxing. Our spacious family room is a great place to visit with or entertain friends and family. Our library boasts an array of books in regular print, large print and on tape, as well as current magazines and the daily newspaper. Many of our residents enjoy taking a leisurely stroll on our manicured grounds and walking paths. Green thumbs can tend to their favorite plants in our outdoor gardening areas. Our on-site chapel features weekly services, and we also feature a full service beauty parlor and barber shop.

With an exciting array of social, educational and cultural programs, residents are encouraged to renew their old interests and explore new ones. Popular activities include exercise classes, clubs and numerous community outings. We offer your loved one a calm and predictable lifestyle by focusing on each resident as the center of the care process honoring their unique life experiences and personality through individually tailored programs and personalized attention.

Optimum Life

Brookdale’s unique Optimum Life approach to resident activities balances six key dimensions of wellness – purposeful, emotional, physical, social, spiritual and intellectual. Intended as a journey of self-examination and discovery, it includes services, features and benefits that allow each resident to reach these goals, regardless of real or perceived limitations.

Strong, Caring Professional Relationships

We nurture strong relationships with area hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing facilities, and rehabilitation centers. Through the communications and relationships that we share with key staff within these affiliations, we provide a seamless continuum of care for our residents.

Our Staff

Brookdale Dowlen Oaks has a well-trained staff that takes ownership of our residents’ care and relates to them like an extended family. Our associates create meaningful connections with residents, while providing exceptional service and care. For our associates, this opportunity to serve others is more than a job – it’s a passion. Each member of our staff is always willing to go above and beyond for residents, and offer complete assisted living services, tailor-made to your needs. Our services focus on wellness to help you maintain your health, so you can live as independently as possible. We are committed to providing a rewarding experience through our community that is purposefully designed and operated to provide an outstanding experience for our residents.

Personalized Care

At Brookdale Dowlen Oaks, we partner with each resident to create a personalized plan, tailored for their specific needs. Our process is unique to Brookdale and our trained staff is there to assist you with your personal needs, in the privacy of your suite/apartment. We provide assistance with – Bathing or showering, selection of clothing, dressing assistance, grooming, hygiene, mobility and transferring and dining assistance.

For those who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, our memory care community provides specialized care from a staff that is continuously trained in handling the unique needs of seniors with memory-related issues. Residents with Alzheimer’s or related memory challenges reside in a supportive environment with familiar surroundings.

Through our unique approach, we help residents achieve daily moments of success that bring meaning and purpose to their day. Our activities are designed to encourage cognitive functions and independence whenever possible. Our staff works to get to know each resident’s individual history, as well as their family in order to provide the best care possible.

At Brookdale Dowlen Oaks we work to get to know each resident, including their personal history and their life story to ensure we provide care that’s tailored to their past experiences. Families can have full confidence that loved ones will receive the support they need in a caring environment.

Levels of Care

Brookdale Dowlen Oaks offers our assisted living and memory care options. We truly value you as an individual and we are dedicated to providing tailored Levels of Care to meet all of your or your loved ones needs.

Assisted Living

Brookdale Assisted Living communities support residents with daily living activities and amenities, such as housekeeping services, transportation and recreational activities. Trained caregivers provide services such as help with medication, bathing and dressing and coordinating services with outside providers.

Our individualized care plans provide an ideal blend of convenience and support with respect for individual preferences. We take the time to listen to our residents, so we can understand their needs. Then we establish clinical, dining and program support that works for them in a meaningful way.

We partner with our residents, recognizing their individual needs and preferences, and adjust services to meet their changing needs. So whether it’s a unique snack, the celebration of a favorite season or a lifelong interest, we value the privilege of knowing our residents and building relationships with them to create a truly personalized living experience.

We provide care that balances independence with assistance and delivers service with compassion, understanding and respect. With comfortable accommodations and an impressive line of features and amenities, Brookdale residents enjoy life with the confidence of knowing we are here, partnering with you and your family, to customize solutions that support our residents’ needs as they evolve.

Memory Care

We understand your concerns for your loved one’s safety and well-being, and we understand the weight of the responsibility of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or other types of dementia. Let us help you and your loved one with our compassionate, specialized care.

Brookdale offers programs and safe environments for those with Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia. We believe no matter where an individual is on life’s journey, each has the right to live in a dignified manner and to enjoy meaningful experiences every day.

Deeply rooted in a person-centered approach, our Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care program, also called the Clare Bridge program, focuses on sustaining feelings of belonging, purpose and safety while seeking to preserve a sense of self. The Clare Bridge concept has evolved over the last 25 years through research and innovations in quality dementia care. Our experienced teams have cared for thousands of individuals with dementia and their families.

The Clare Bridge Daily Path provides residents with a structured routine of activities that help maintain their abilities and encourage the use of their current skills. The Daily Path includes programs such as discussion groups as a mental workout and daily physical exercise such as dancing. The Daily Path gives each resident purpose and a sense of security that they are “right where they need to be.”

Designed by a team of culinary associates, experts in Dementia Care and registered dieticians, our unique dining program promotes a positive and successful dining experience with the following features:

• Dementia-friendly menus with selections that are easy to manage and familiar with dishes that promote balanced nutrition and well-being.
• Individualized dining assistance includes evaluating residents to determine the level of assistance needed to preserve their use of utensils as long as possible.
• The supportive dining environment encourages familiarity and socialization and offers personalized assistance during meals.

Brookdale is the nation’s largest provider of Alzheimer’s and Dementia care. Through our unique memory care programs, we offer comfort from the struggles of dementia for you and your loved one with customized care to meet your loved one’s specific needs. Our skilled associates provide compassionate and attentive dementia care, and enable residents to experience daily moments of success.

Brookdale promotes the health and wellness of our residents by bringing together systems to assess, plan, deliver and follow-up on their needs. By individually customizing care offerings we help ease residents through life transitions. Plus, Brookdale’s more than 30 years of experience allows us to develop unique clinical capabilities in each element of our continuum of care that identify and respond to resident needs.

Come Experience Our Community

We invite you to see why Brookdale Dowlen Oaks is the right choice for you or your loved one. Call us today or submit the form on this page for more information.