Pricing ranges from
    $8,262 – 10,740/month

    Cape Memory Care

    126 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

    Compassionate, homey Maine senior care

    I placed my dad here and I'm very pleased: the facility is beautiful and homey in a lovely Maine setting, with compassionate, attentive staff, strong leadership, and helpful management that made the transition smooth. Private rooms with cable/Internet, good food, engaging activities, new friendships, and a supportive, family-owned atmosphere have helped him thrive - I'm confident in their care and would recommend this community.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Memory care community services

    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    3.35·(20)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      3.2
    • Staff

      3.3
    • Meals

      1.6
    • Amenities

      3.7
    • Value

      1.0

    Pros

    • Responsive, helpful staff
    • Compassionate end-of-life support
    • Engaged leadership improving care stability
    • Varied and engaging activity programming
    • Clean, home-like private rooms
    • Private rooms with cable TV and internet access
    • Positive dining quality
    • Safe, familiar local setting
    • Respect for resident independence
    • Family-owned, homey atmosphere
    • Supportive admissions and transition process
    • Evidence of cognitive and emotional benefits

    Cons

    • Chronic understaffing and staffing instability
    • Inconsistent sanitation and odor control
    • Inconsistent personal-care and bathing schedules
    • Inadequate mealtime assistance and feeding support
    • Gaps in fall-prevention and transfer-safety practices
    • Poor communication and care coordination with families and external providers
    • Weak personal-item tracking and laundry controls
    • Variable leadership effectiveness and oversight
    • Gaps in regulatory compliance and oversight

    Summary of reviews

    Overall impression: Reviews of this community are mixed, with a clear division between families who describe a warm, well-run, home-like environment and others who raise substantial operational concerns. Positive accounts highlight responsive caregiving, a pleasing physical setting, and programming that appears to help some residents with engagement and emotional well-being. Negative accounts point to systemic issues—especially around staffing, cleanliness, and care coordination—that have led to serious family concerns.

    Care and staff: Positive feedback emphasizes compassionate, respectful staff and instances of strong support during end-of-life situations. Several families describe staff who preserve resident independence, show sensitivity, and respond helpfully during transitions. Contrasting reports identify persistent understaffing, delays in attending to resident needs, and concerns about staff conduct and responsiveness. These contrasting impressions suggest variability in staff performance and capacity that may depend on unit, shift, or staffing levels.

    Dining and personal care: Some residents experience a positive food program and adequate dining quality, while other accounts identify insufficient mealtime assistance and feeding support for residents who require hands-on help. Personal-care provision is similarly variable: there are descriptions of attentive hygiene and grooming, alongside reports of inconsistent bathing schedules, laundry problems, and other sanitation concerns. Those operational gaps can affect comfort and dignity for residents who need more intensive assistance.

    Activities and social environment: Many reviews praise a varied activity schedule, social opportunities, and programs that appear to reduce anxiety and support cognition for participating residents. Conversely, there are also reports of inadequate stimulation and limited programming in some areas, leaving some residents lonely or under-engaged. This suggests program availability and quality may differ across wings or staffing situations.

    Facilities and belongings: The campus and private rooms receive frequent praise for a homey atmosphere, attractive location, and the availability of private rooms with cable and internet. However, other comments note inconsistent housekeeping, odor concerns in common areas or rugs, and missing personal items or laundry issues—indicating weaknesses in sanitation protocols and personal-item tracking.

    Management, oversight, and notable patterns: Several reviews credit engaged, local leadership with improving stability and resident experience; others cite dismissive communication, poor incident follow-up, and care-coordination failures with external providers such as hospice and hospitals. There are also expressed concerns about regulatory follow-through. Collectively, these patterns point to variable leadership effectiveness and gaps in clinical-incident communication and oversight. Concerns following a resident's death and reported failures in coordinating with hospice and hospital personnel underscore the importance of clear escalation and communication protocols.

    Bottom line for prospective families: The community demonstrates real strengths—compassionate caregivers, a pleasant physical environment, and meaningful programming for many residents—but also shows operational weaknesses that have led to serious family concerns in some cases. Prospective residents and families should arrange a visit that includes questions about current staffing ratios and turnover, sanitation and laundry procedures, fall-prevention protocols, mealtime assistance plans, personal-item tracking, and how the facility coordinates with hospice and hospitals. Reviewing recent inspection reports and speaking with current families on-site can help clarify whether the community’s strengths or its operational risks are more likely to reflect the experience for a particular resident.

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    Location

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    Cape Memory Care is located at 126 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth, ME, 04107.

    About Cape Memory Care

    Cape Memory Care, A Woodlands Senior Living Community, sits at 126 Scott Dyer Road in Cape Elizabeth, ME, and it's been there since 2010, built because local people saw a need for high-quality memory care around Portland, so you'll find it's purpose-built and offers a secure and comfortable setting for people living with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, or other memory challenges, and you'll notice they've got both private and shared apartments, each with a private bathroom, and staff are around 24/7 for support with things like bathing, dressing, moving around, and taking medications, and there's basic nursing care including wound dressing and help with insulin, so families tend to feel more at ease about safety and health, while residents can join in activities designed for memory loss, whether on-site or on outings, and enjoy amenities like a fireplace common room, activity and reading rooms, a home-style kitchen, and a big group activity space, plus there's a secured outdoor courtyard with walking paths, gardens, a gazebo, and even a second-floor deck with a nice view. Staff include registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified residential medication aides, and personal care attendants, most of whom get special dementia care training like the CARES© Approach, and the dining program serves nutritious, chef-planned meals and snacks, which people say taste good, and residents get laundry, housekeeping, and transportation to nearby appointments, with some folks liking that the pharmacy is just a few blocks away, so getting prescriptions filled is easy. The place is known for having especially nice architecture, decoration, and furnishings you don't always see in other senior communities-lots of natural light and pleasant spots to sit with family, and some say the environment feels elegant but still home-like, and the second-floor deck and secured outdoor areas give fresh air and sun with peace of mind since everything stays safely enclosed. The staff culture is considered friendly and helpful, and families and residents have given generally high review scores, with kindness and responsiveness noted, so people feel welcome, and the community aims to make it easy to find belonging and comfort, while personalized care plans are adjusted as needed for changing health, with regular health monitoring, medication administration, and care for folks who are non-ambulatory or have diabetes. Room and board, daily meals, activities, nursing care, and transportation are covered by a month-to-month agreement, and the facility uses video monitoring and good climate control in each room to keep everyone comfortable and secure. Clinical staff can coordinate skilled nursing or therapy with outside providers if residents want, and everyone gets chances for social, physical, and emotional engagement, with on- and off-site activities, devotional meetings, and other ways to keep involved as much as possible. Cape Memory Care is part of Woodlands Senior Living, which is family-owned, and the place has earned recognition like Joint Commission Assisted Living Accreditation, so families say they can trust the care. The setting is beautiful and historic, not far from the ocean, and the overall approach is to combine strong health support and a safe, comfortable living space for people needing memory care.

    People often ask...

    Cape Memory Care offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $8,262 per month.

    Cape Memory Care offers assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    The full address for this community is 126 Scott Dyer Rd, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107.

    No, Cape Memory Care does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

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