Country Cottages

Country Cottages is a small collection of three retirement homes managed by Cottage Senior Living, a family-owned provider in Alabama, that has offered assisted living and memory care for seniors even though the community is now closed, but when it was open, it provided several types of care from independent living to memory care, respite care, and help with daily chores, while also having staff trained for Alzheimer's and late-stage dementia, so folks who needed more support with things like bathing and medication could find it, and some rooms had private bathrooms, spacious closets, cable TV, emergency alert systems, and even Wi-Fi and telephone hook-up, which made it a pretty comfortable setting, with cozy community areas like a sunny porch, a country kitchen, fireplaces, and a library for quiet reading, as well as outdoor patios and a safe courtyard where residents could see family or just sit outside, plus there's this thing called CareSteps which is their personalized care plan and made sure everyone's needs got met, and they'd prepare home-style meals and snacks three times a day in family-style dining rooms, offer weekly housekeeping and laundry, and help set up rides to appointments and social activities, with events like bingo, holiday parties, and chair exercises filling out a calendar for folks who felt up to it, and they even had sensory therapy rooms-sometimes called Snoezelen rooms-for people with memory loss, so if someone needed physical therapy or wanted to bring a pet, the staff would help with that too, and the apartments came in different sizes and styles, some unfurnished to let residents add their own touches, so men and women, pet owners, people wanting independence or needing more medical help, could find what they needed, and although its rating stood at 2.8, the staff offered 24-hour care, had medication management, on-site and off-site activities, and planned recreational programs, which all aimed to keep seniors healthy and engaged, making sure the environment stayed structured and secure with a real emphasis on personalized routines-so even though information about specific features is a little thin and the place is now closed, folks did seem to find a real home there when it was running.