Our Services & Programs at Arbor Oaks Senior Living in Andover

Enriching Connections is our science-based dementia-specific training program that gives Memory Care team members the tools to support our residents with cognitive impairment.

Through our Enriching Connections certification program, our staff learns how to develop individualized care plans for our residents to maintain their independence and promote their happiness and wellbeing.

This program concentrates on:

• Relationships & Community: Everyone is invited to belong.
• Commitment: Our organizational leaders are actively involved and committed to providing personalized care.
• Certification & Training for Staff: All management and memory care staff members are certified through the Alzheimer’s Association and have completed additional dementia-specific training.
• Services: Families and nursing staff work together to create plans that promote individual preferences, independence, and dignity.
• Meaningful Life & Engagement: We focus on maintaining our residents’ best quality of life through Inspire Wellness for Life.
• Environment: Our team is dedicated to making continual improvements so that every Tealwood community is a dementia-friendly environment.
• Accountability: We always monitor our processes, plans, and culture to maintain the highest standards of care.

Regular access to physicians can improve health and wellness, so we’ve partnered with local doctors to provide ongoing medical care to our residents in the comfort of their own apartments. Onsite care removes the stress and worry of fighting the weather, traffic, or poor health to get to a doctor’s appointment.

This partnership between local physicians, our team, our residents, and our residents’ families ensures that each resident receives ongoing, high-quality medical care.

Some individuals may not be able to follow their medication and physician instructions for various reasons. Our Medication Management program is designed to help remove medication errors and overuse.

Medication Management ensures:

• More patients correctly take their medicine.
• More patients meet their healthcare goals.
• That chances of duplication, side effects, and drug interactions are reduced.
• There are fewer hospitalizations related to incorrect dosing or missed doses.

We partner with TotalCare Pharmacy to ensure your needs are met.

Our Integrative Health program blends the best of western medicine with therapeutic practices that focus on the wellness of our residents. Every service in this program is performed under the supervision of our trained nurses.

Integrative Health therapies supplement our other care programs and include:

• Essential Oils: These naturally-derived oils can help promote relaxation, ease pain and nausea, and improve memory, mood, and learning.
• Hand & Foot Massage: Soothing, therapeutic massage helps release stress and tension. And, when combined with essential oils, it improves mood and relaxation.
• Healing Music: We play soothing music and schedule live music performances to encourage relaxation.
• Guided Imagery: This unique experience helps relax your mind, reducing stress, anxiety, and pain and improving clarity, focus, and sleep.
• Energy-Based Healing Modalities: Reiki and other forms of healing touch are performed by experienced practitioners to bring relaxation and increase energy.

A structured, stable routine is essential for our Memory Care residents to maintain a sense of normalcy and predictability. Our 8-8 program provides a structured and stimulating environment to promote our residents’ wellbeing.

Through a series of specially-designed daily activities, our Memory Care residents can achieve a positive state of mind, a strong sense of security, and improved sleep patterns.

Hospice care is intended to provide compassionate care to our residents with advanced illnesses. At Arbor Oaks, we have partnered with various hospice agencies to provide our residents with exceptional, compassionate care by compassionate, highly-trained staff.

We offer various therapy programs designed to empower the happiness for our residents who need mobility and speech aid.

• Physical therapy is intended to support our residents in regaining strength, reducing pain, and improving mobility. Our team focuses on helping our residents heal and retrain their bodies in a comfortable and supportive environment.
• Occupational therapy helps our residents develop, recover, improve, and maintain the skills for activities of daily living. Through occupational therapy, our residents can regain their independence and avoid falls and injuries.
• Speech therapy improves language, speech, and swallowing. This program helps our residents who have had a stroke, injury, or illness that’s impacted their ability to talk or swallow.