Our Community
Our private driveway opens up to a lovely campus surrounded by a greenway of trees. Our communities sit between a friendly, secure, quiet, residential neighborhood. We are just minutes away from Forrest General Hospital and the Hattiesburg Clinic complex.
A Wonderful Selection
We offer four private and 26 companion senior apartments in a relaxing environment, which is ideal for individuals with memory loss. All of our senior apartments are on the first floor and wheelchair accessible.
Our community provides residents many common areas such as our family room, which is a great place to visit or entertain with family or friends. Our enclosed, outdoor courtyard provides a relaxing setting for our resident’s to enjoy their surroundings.
It’s the perfect way for our seniors to be outside, but yet in a controlled environment. Green thumbs can tend to their favorite plants in our outdoor gardening areas, which offer raised plant and flower beds for optimal comfort. Our full-service beauty and barber shop offers hair styling, manicures and facials. Our two fully-furnished day rooms are complete with library, game tables and television for movie night or college game day.
Our memory care community is truly a home and we are one big happy family. So whether you want to relax in your private apartment or socialize in one of our many common areas, we have a space to fill your needs.
Living an 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.
Partnering with the Local Community
Brookdale Hattiesburg MC is proud to be a part of the local community and each month we host an Alzheimer’s caregiver support group, which showcases some of the area’s premier physicians and neurologists. Our support groups provide informative presentations, as well as fellowship for our seniors and the community.
Professional and Caring Staff
Our staff at Brookdale Hattiesburg MC is chosen for their caregiving skills and their caring attitudes. They are carefully selected and trained to manage the challenges associated with dementia, which can sometimes be difficult. The Clare Bridge Daily Path provides a gentle structure to each day that targets specific needs of those with Alzheimer’s and various types and levels of dementia. It features:
- Morning Mental Workout – Daily late morning mental exercises including discussions, brain stimulating games, and reminiscing.
- Daily Physical Activity – A variety of exercise opportunities including group exercises, walking programs and dancing.
- Daily Life Skills – Individual or group activities that provide a sense of purpose, meaning, and belonging.
- Person Centered Life Enrichment Programming – Activities are designed using the resident’s own social history information as a foundation.
Our trained staff is there to assist with personal needs, in the privacy of the resident’s suite/apartment. We provide assistance with – Bathing or showering, selection of clothing, dressing assistance, grooming, hygiene, mobility and transferring and dining assistance.
Amenities
- Emergency Response in Each Room
- Private Bathroom - Sink/Toilet
- 24 Hour Security System
- Library
- Beauty/Barber Shop
- Courtyard and Garden
- Game Room
- Parking - Surface
- Private Dining Room
- Piano
- Postal Services
- Flat Screen TV
- Keypad Entry
- Landscaped Grounds
Levels of Care
Brookdale Hattiesburg MC provides a full continuum of Alzheimer’s and Dementia care services for seniors. We truly value you as an individual and our associates are dedicated to providing tailored Levels of Care to meet all of your or your loved ones needs.
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.
Our community 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.
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 is the right choice for you or your loved one. Call today or click on Contact Us to let us know how we can help you.