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The Grande at Sterling Estates
This is a place where residents are empowered to live engaging, rewarding lives and families find support and peace of mind.
Atlantaās Memory Care Center of Excellence: Designed for a Sterling Life
The Grande at Sterling Estates of West Cobbāa certified Memory Care Center of Excellenceāoffers The Sterling Life to those living with Alzheimerās disease or dementia. Designed with purpose and attention to detail, the community promotes independence, confidence, and comfort. This is a place where residents are empowered to live engaging, rewarding lives and families find support and peace of mind, all in a beautiful setting.
Programming with Meaning: The Hearthstone Way
After careful consideration and extensive research, The Grande at Sterling Estates of West Cobb partnered with The Hearthstone Institute to provide our Memory Care programming. Founded in 1992 by renowned memory care expert Dr. John Zeisel, Hearthstone has been a recognized leader in Alzheimerās care for twenty years. Its mission is to create residential environments where people living with Alzheimerās and related disorders can flourish.
Central to this partnership is HearthstoneāsĀ Iām Still HereĀ®Ā programming, which is based on the belief that a person living with Alzheimerās or dementia, is āstill hereā and can experience a high quality of life regardless of the degree of memory loss. Through Iām Still HereĀ® programming, residents of live with purpose, discovery, and joy.
As a certified Memory Care Center of Excellence, The Grande at Sterling Estates integrates Hearthstoneās transformational, evidence-based training programs into our daily routines, creating opportunities for true engagement and increased quality of life for our residents living with memory challenges.
A Memory Care Facility Designed with Care and Purpose
The Grande, one of only 27 Hearthstone-certified Memory Care Centers of Excellence in the country, was designed in consultation with Dr. Zeisel to be as welcoming as it is purposeful. The single-story building offers 36 resident suites, but most importantly, the layout facilitates theĀ Iām Still HereĀ®Ā approach, incorporating strategically placed Iām Still HereĀ®Ā Learning Stations geared to ease of movement and interaction among the residents. The hallways are wide and tall with transom windows that deliver plenty of reflective sunlight along the way to resident rooms or the engagement stations. The community also features a secure central interior therapeutic garden and courtyard.
The common rooms, the residentsā dining room, and the resident kitchen are decorated with muted earth-tones and furniture appropriate for residents. All the dĆ©cor textures and furniture colors have been selected to reduce depression and agitation.
Our Approach
To provide the most exceptional experience for our residents and their families, Sterling Estates partnered with Dr. John Zeisel andĀ The Hearthstone InstituteĀ to provideĀ Iām Still HereĀ®Ā programming within our new Memory Care community. Hearthstone is a recognized world leader in the development and utilization of non-pharmacologic interventions for persons with memory challenges. This is the quality and integrity in Memory Care that we demand for our residents. Nothing less will do.
The Iām Still HereĀ® approach is based on the belief that a person living with Alzheimerās or dementia, is āstill hereā and can experience a high quality of life regardless of the degree of memory loss.
Experiences. Not Busy Work.
Iām Still HereĀ recognizes that meaningful engagement for our Memory Care residents increases their quality of life. More importantly, it decreases the severity and frequency of most common symptoms of dementia known as the four Aās of Alzheimerās: Apathy, Anxiety, Agitation and Aggression.
Meaningful programs and activities offered withinĀ Iām Still HereĀ®Ā replace busy work with:
- a full social life
- new learning experiences
- group participation in varied and enjoyable activities that include favorite hobbies and pastimes
People living with memory loss often feel as though they no longer have a voice or choice.Ā Iām Still HereĀ®Ā offers numerous opportunities every day for residents to express their preferences and choices. The result? Increased feelings of confidence, significance, and well-being. Our residents matter.
Daily Interactive Programming and Continued Learning
At The Grande at Sterling Estates of West Cobb, we know that no two people in our care have the same needs, abilities, or likes. Understanding that each resident is unique,Ā Iām Still HereĀ® provides three unique Hearthstone programs, providing residents with different interactive experiences every day, throughout the day:
- Discovery provides new learning experiences and individual learning stations along with art and culture for self-expression
- Vitality welcomes residents to take part in exercise groups, stimulating discussions, social clubs, and more.
- Serenity delivers sensory experiences, cognitive stimulation, and artwork and photography that generate creative reminiscence.
Studies have shown that most people remain curious throughout their lives and enjoy learning new things, even if theyāre living with memory challenges. Using Montessori-inspired methods,Ā Iām Still HereĀ®Ā offers exciting group projects as well asĀ Iām Still HereĀ®Ā Learning Stations to provide a wide variety of opportunities for individual discovery and learning.
Daily Engagement
Dr. John Zeisel created the innovative Iām Still HereĀ® approach to change the way residents with Alzheimerās disease or other forms of dementia live engaging, meaningful and rewarding lives. Iām Still HereĀ® asserts that a joyful, fulfilling, active life is still possible for adults with cognitive challenges. To that end, we provide residents with innovative tools, programs and games designed to facilitate engagement every day.
Iām Still Here Learning Stations
Iām Still HereĀ® Learning Stations are engaging places where residents have the opportunity to learn new information, revisit previous knowledge, participate in familiar tasks or experience completely new adventures. Theyāre located throughout The Grande to encourage independent or social engagement.
Each Learning Station is thoughtfully designed to offer topics, tasks and information based on current interests or subjects of study. While some stations emphasize opportunities to learn new information, othersāsuch as making body scrubs and arranging flowersāencourage residents to express their creativity.
The materials at the stations are changed and updated regularly to provide an ever-changing variety of interesting and engaging things to learn and do. There are puzzles, art projects, recipes and more.
In addition to offering individualized learning experiences, Learning Stations also provide residents with an opportunity to teach and share their knowledge with others.
Scripted-IMPROVā¢
Scripted-IMPROV uses theater arts and creativity to support joyful, meaningful, and fulfilling lives for those with memory loss. This engaging program features drama (mini plays), props, music, dancing, and role-playing to bring smiles, laughter, and unexpected responses from our residents with memory loss.
Meet Me at the Movies!
Grab your popcorn and drink and Meet Me at the Movies! This is an enjoyable theater experience designed to stimulate and engage our residents. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet Me at the Movies! is an interactive film experience. Short clips from classic films and TV shows are shown, followed by audience discussion and reminiscence, guided by one of our team members. From classic Hollywood hits to foreign films, action-adventure movies to cult classics, residents of The Grande at Sterling Estates of West Cobb are treated to showings of some of their favorite movies and TV shows.
It Takes a Village
It Takes a Village embraces our local West Cobb and Marietta communities as a powerful way to help our residents. We visit museums, the symphony, and other cultural venues. This is a rich opportunity to get out to our Marietta community, visit with our neighbors, and have some fun, too.
Hearthside Book ClubĀ®
The Hearthside Book Club incorporates specialized reading materials specially adjusted for individuals with varying stages of dementia. The books have built-in questions, cues, and other helpful features that help our staff engage with our residents, creating positive interaction. The Hearthside Book Club includes many favorite topics such as: Alfred Hitchcock, James Cagney, and Glenn Miller biographies, Books that Became Movies, Rosie the Riveter, Tourism, and more.
COVID-19 Safety
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COVID-19 Updates
As we have done throughout the pandemic, we have been balancing our efforts to keep the virus out of our buildings while maintaining the health and wellness of our residents which goes beyond just sheltering in place.
Below you will find an update on the latest guidance from both the Department of Public Health (DPH) as well as Governor Kemp. We will continue scheduled in person visits for residents and loved ones in specially designed, large annex rooms as the weather cools. These rooms are specially equipped with top of the line air filtrations and surface cleaning technologies. That said, as the weather permits, outside visits are still the preferred option for visits.
Here are the most important guidelines to know if you are visiting our community:
- We will offer visitation time slots separated by at least 15-minute cleaning buffers
- There will be a limit on the number of visitors allowed in the room as dictated by square footage
- All visitors who intend to have an indoor visit are recommended to obtain regular COVID tests
- All visitors will be screened prior to entering the building and will be required to wear a mask at all times
- Masks are required to be worn at all times.
- Everyone must be screened with questions and a temperature check.
- Please wash your hands frequently and use hand sanitizer.
- Always maintain social distancing of at least six feet.
Stay home if you have any of these symptoms: Fever, Chills, Cough, Shortness of Breath or Difficulty Breathing, Fatigue, Muscle or Body Aches, Headache, New Loss of Taste or Smell, Sore Throat, Congestion or Runny Nose, Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea or other new signs of illness.
Visitation Guidelines
Read the latest Georgia Department of Public Health Guidelines here.
Based on this new guidance, beginning November 2nd, Sterling Estates of West Cobb will start scheduling indoor visitations from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nearly all visitation will be during these hours unless prearranged in coordination with our management team. If circumstances change, obviously visitation guidelines in specific areas may change quickly as well. Please reach out to the community directly regarding how to best schedule these visits.
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