Take a moment to consider your ideal lifestyle. Is it packed with exhilarating, exciting new experiences and hobbies? Or do you yearn for a more relaxed way of living, free from responsibilities and adorned with lavish indulgences? Perhaps you’d like a mixture of both. Whatever your desired pace of life, a luxury retirement is a fitting reward for a life well lived.
By choosing luxury senior living, you will be opening the door to a tailored retirement; one that caters to your every need.
Residential Care: The Basics
What is Included in Residential Care?
Residential care is for retirees who would benefit from any level of support with activities of daily living (ADLs). In residential care, you can receive tailored assistance as needed and with caregivers on-site and available around the clock, this support is available at the drop of a dime. Residential care services also typically include on-site activities and social events, and communities may have convenient amenities like shops or a salon.
Residential Care vs. Home Care
Residential care services offer a level of support that home care cannot typically provide. For instance, while home care can offer tailored support, private homes are often ill-equipped to support changing mobility needs. Getting out and about to socialize and participate in hobbies can be logistically challenging, too. In residential care, you will benefit from 24/7 support from professional caregivers, in an environment designed to balance home comforts with effortless accessibility.
What is Luxury Residential Care Like?
Luxury senior living takes the residential care experience to the next level. Offering high staff to resident ratios, upgraded amenities, and enhanced opportunities in a sumptuous, home-like setting, it is the perfect place to live the luxury retirement of your dreams. Luxury senior living communities typically offer an experience for the whole family, including enhanced support for family caregivers, and social and holiday events for your wider circle of friends and family to enjoy.
5 Benefits of Choosing Luxury Senior Living
1. Next-level daily care.
In a luxury senior living setting, ADLs become a breeze. Boutique residential care communities typically have better staff to resident ratios, resulting in timely, tailored support from trusted and familiar professionals. Luxury senior living communities often incorporate cutting-edge technologies into their care provision to enhance individualized care plans, too.
For example, The Wedgwood 120 maintains an impressive 1:6 caregiver to resident ratio. This allows every resident in our community to receive the one to one, carefully tailored care they truly deserve. This excellent care forms the foundation that allows seniors to build their wonderfully fulfilling, luxury retirement. On top of this, we utilize electronic health records and CarePredict, a wearable health technology shown to reduce falls by 69% for streamlined care.1
2. Access to a range of exceptional healthcare professionals.
Choosing luxury senior living can make it easier to access highly regarded healthcare professionals. A residential care community may partner with a range of experts, from physicians, podiatrists, and audiologists, to physical and occupational therapists at the very top of their respective fields. Personalized care plans leave no stone unturned, allowing residents to see their trusted experts from the comfort of home, or with convenient, chauffeured visits.
3. Fine dining and the best nutrition as standard.
In luxury senior living, residential care services are elevated. Good nutrition is vital for a long and healthy retirement, and has been shown to contribute to the prevention (or slowing) of diabetes, as well as increased longevity and quality of life for healthy aging.2 The best residential care communities understand the dual importance of nutrition and indulgence.
Many luxury senior living communities have chefs on-site to ensure every meal is an experience to be savored, because fine dining shouldn’t be reserved for special occasions. At The Wedgwood 120, residents enjoy a choice of chef-prepared, farm-to-table meals every day, selected from a delicious, dietician approved meal plan. We also provide bistro snacks including pastries, freshly baked cookies, tea, and coffee all day long.
4. First class amenities.
Luxury senior living communities offer a greater range of on-site amenities for convenient and upscale daily living. Facilities like beauty salons, spas, pools, and services like housekeeping and laundry may be available. The Wedgwood 120 offers a fully equipped hair and beauty salon, private transport service, a lifeguard supervised outdoor pool for special events, and daily butler-style service to help residents live with the utmost ease.
5. A wider range of residential care activities.
High-end residential care communities typically offer a much better range of activities and events for residents and family caregivers. In luxury senior living, daily life is centered around the individual. Rather than being expected to choose something from a limited list of generic residential care activities, every resident’s personal interests will be considered. Expect to find a range of educational, recreational, physical, and spiritual activities on offer.
At The Wedgwood 120, residents are empowered to gain new experiences, encouraged to support charities and organizations close to their heart, and given opportunities to experience local arts and culture in the New York City area. A dedicated life enrichment specialist works hard to help every resident experience the fulfilling lifestyle they deserve.
Overall, luxury senior living will open the door to an effortlessly low maintenance lifestyle. Combining the practical and health benefits of individualized, professional care and accessible design with deeply fulfilling residential care activities and social opportunities, you will be able to bring your luxury retirement wishes to life with ease.
To see the very best that luxury senior living can offer, organize a visit to The Wedgwood 120 in Hightstown, NJ today.
References
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- Leitão C, Mignano A, Estrela M, Fardilha M, Figueiras A, Roque F, Herdeiro MT. The effect of nutrition on aging – a systematic review focusing on aging-related biomarkers. Nutrients. 2022;14(3):554. doi: 10.3390/nu14030554