Rye's H.O.P.E. Center for Memory Care Earns National Award

The Osborn’s H.O.P.E Center for Memory Care, a facility designed for Alzheimer’s and similar ailments, recently won a Senior Housing Design Award by Senior Housing News.

Below is The Osborn’s announcement:

The Osborn’s H.O.P.E Center for Memory Care has been named Best Stand-Alone Memory Care facility in the second annual Senior Housing Design Awards, it was announced today by Senior Housing News, the sponsor of the nationwide competition to recognize projects and companies that are improving the lives of seniors through innovative design. The Award will be presented at a special event to be held in Dallas in March.

The H.O.P.E. Center for Memory Care, located on The Osborn’s 56-acre campus in Rye, is designed for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other similar neurological disorders that compromise cognitive ability. The H.O.P.E. Center is for residents who can still perform some daily living activities, but also benefit from professional care and support in a social, neighborhood-style setting. The 13-person community, opened in spring 2013, promotes independence and choice in a beautiful setting, enhanced by life-enriching services and amenities. In choosing the H.O.P.E Center for Memory Care, the five-person judging panel of leading architects and designers noted the Center’s cutting edge design, excellence and innovation in senior living. In particular, the panel praised the “right size” of the Center that is limited to 13 residents, the outstanding home-like interior design with many adaptations for the memory impaired and the creative interpretation of an existing space.

The H.O.P.E. Center for Memory Care features private rooms with private baths, a community kitchen, a great room with fireplace and entertainment center, a creative arts center and a bright and airy sunroom. Just as they would at home, residents are able to choose their favorite activities, such as listening to music, creative arts, watching movies with friends, and walking in the secure, adjacent, beautiful Betty Neagle perennial garden. The innovative H.O.P.E. program (Home Environment, Optimism, Passion and Empathy) is staffed with professionals specially trained in Alzheimer’s and dementia care, ensuring the highest-quality personalized care that maximizes each person’s capabilities.

“The Osborn’s H.O.P.E. Center is the result of an extraordinary team of individuals and experts who first dreamed the concept, then took it from idea to reality,” noted Mark R. Zwerger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Osborn. “Our extraordinarily caring professionals and in-house project management team, together with our colleagues at the Alzheimer’s Resource Center of Connecticut and the wonderful design team of RLPS Architects, collaborated on an exceptional home that incorporates the key ideas of some of the best and brightest in the field of dementia care,” he added. “This honor reinforces The Osborn’s 106-year-old legacy of providing superior care to exceed the needs and expectations of older adults.”

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