I highly recommend Stonebridge Assisted Living and Memory Care. After my elderly mother's sudden illness and diagnosis of dementia, she required multiple hospitalizations. Suffering a rapid decline, I was finally told by hospital doctors that she would not recover her ability to walk or care for herself in any meaningful way. She was refusing food due to swallowing issues and would only sometimes take water. The hospital's recommendation was to move her to hospice and allow her to decline and pass. Devastating news. Fortunately, I had already secured a placement for my mom at Stonebridge, and after consulting with their multidisciplinary staff, they encouraged me to transfer Mom back to their care, so she could be further evaluated. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. My mother, who at that point was unable to safely swallow, speak, or move her body, had given up her will to live. But Stonebridge did not give up on her. In concert, the facility's director, their skilled nurses, med techs, PAs, PTs, Speech pathologists -- the entire community -- rallied around my mother in an attempt to offer her another chance at life. A thorough re-evaluation of her medications was performed. The nutritionist determined a diet that she could take onboard as she healed. My mom is also very spiritual, and I was overwhelmed by the number of staff members who came just to sit and pray with her when she was unable to speak. Staff even came to visit her on their days off! Gradually the interventions began to work! Over the course of a couple of months, and as a result of this dedicated and compassionate care, my mother has been able to recover her ability to walk, talk, eat solid foods, and is now able to attend onsite church services, social activities and enjoys visits with family. She has picked up weight and regularly engages in physical therapy, which has greatly improved her mobility and reduced her physical pain. I'm so thankful I didn't listen to the doctors at the hospital -- and took Stonebridge's advice to bring her back to them. At the risk of leaving someone out, special recognition is owed to Betty, Brenda, Sara, Moira, Renee, Rebecca, Barbara, Karen, Flo, DJ, and Fabiola. At a time when healthcare and senior services are stretched so thin, and our social services are overwhelmed, it's refreshing to see a care team that truly values their residents as their own family, by treating the entire person -- physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. Thank you Stonebridge! read more