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Clare Bridge®: Our Community-Based Approach
Clare Bridge is our exclusive brand of Alzheimer’s and dementia care that serves both you and your loved one. Our mission is to help your loved one feel a strong sense of belonging, build friendships and support their current abilities through personalized and purposeful engagement.
What Our Clare Bridge Community Can Offer Your Loved One
Just because someone you love is experiencing memory loss, it doesn't mean that they should have to sacrifice their quality of life. Our residents spend their days in a secure place, surrounded by familiar people who encourage them to enjoy life, experience feelings of belonging and purpose and support current abilities through our Clare Bridge Daily Path programming.
Since our community specializes in memory care services, our community is designed and built to be warm, secure and comforting.
- We use industry-leading techniques like color-coding, dementia-friendly menus, enclosed courtyards and personalized apartment entryways to encourage recognition.
- We strive to help our seniors securely explore their surroundings.
- You’ll have peace of mind knowing there is trained staff on-site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Your loved one will feel right at home with our private apartments that have plenty of natural window light and storage.
- You can make your loved one’s apartment familiar and comfortable with their personal belongings and favorite furniture.
- Outside of each apartment is a shadow box that creates a small “biography” for each senior and serves as a tool for our care team to get to know each senior.
Your loved one deserves to experience a full life in a place where they are well known.
- We strive to provide consistent care assignments so that your loved one is cared for by the same Brookdale care partners whenever possible.
- We aim to build a relationship-rich partnership between your family member and their care provider, which in turn promotes familiarity and regularity.
- Our attentive staff provides support throughout the day, whether during meals, taking medication, bathing and more.
Our Clare Bridge Daily Path approach to Alzheimer’s and dementia care provides our seniors with a sense of purpose, meaning and belonging.
- We offer a gentle structure of six programs that are tailored to maintain our seniors' abilities and encourage the use of their current skills, even with advanced expressions of the disease.
- Programs include brain games and discussions and fitness activities such as dancing, walking and our B-Fit program fitness program.
Personalized Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
To support a person-centered relationship, we get to know our residents’ histories, routines and preferences. We do this to provide your loved one with a sense of stability and comfort that they are well-known where they live. At Brookdale Wilmington, our care programs are tailored to each individual, meaning they can vary significantly among residents. But one thing never changes. We meet your family member right where they are, regardless of their level of dementia, helping live their best life with independence, dignity, and courage.
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Clare Bridge is our exclusive brand of dementia care created more than 30 years ago, consisting of a gentle structure of six planned programs per day that help support your love one's current abilities and help preserve their remaining skills.
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As much as we wish there was a cure for Alzheimer’s, the best thing a memory care community can do is provide opportunities for your loved one to maintain or experience improvement in their current skills. Research has shown that living in a community can reduce the amount of medication a resident needs, increase their overall health and wellness with proper nutrition and exercise, and provide increased social interaction that leads to lower levels of depression and isolation.
The cost of memory care depends on several different factors, including location, floor plan and how much care your loved one needs. The good news is that our residents only pay for the services they actually need.
This is one of those tricky questions that only you can answer. It’s important to do your research before coming to a final decision. But we can tell you that as the disease progresses, the amount of time, energy and resources required to provide quality care will increase. This often creates more stress for the caregiver and could compromise the otherwise high quality of life your loved one could enjoy in a memory care community.
Our communities incorporate several features to help keep your loved one safe, like including emergency alert systems in each apartment. The majority of our communities also have enclosed outdoor courtyards so residents can explore in a secure environment.
A companion suite can offer your loved one something special: friendship. Sharing space often brings comfort, joyful routines and a true sense of purpose. It’s a meaningful way to connect—and can be a budget-friendly option too.
Memory care communities often share helpful resources, while you know your loved one most. Think about your loved one’s daily routines, favorite activities and care needs. Make a list of what’s important—and use it to guide your search with confidence. For more information, visit our Find the Right Memory Care Community page.
