Camino Real (Brookdale)

Camino Real (Brookdale) is a senior living community that offers many kinds of care for older adults, including Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, Continuing Care Retirement Community services, Home Health Care, Hospice Care, and Adult Day Services. Residents can choose from studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments, with room sizes from 400 to 800 square feet, all with private baths, large windows, walk-in closets, and options for balconies or patios, and there are accessible units for wheelchairs too. The facility has both kitchenette and full kitchen options, cable TV, Wi-Fi, and individual climate controls, and the rooms feel home-like with cheerful staff that help each day without taking away anybody's independence.

The community serves three restaurant-style meals daily, with chef's choice options and dietary care for diabetes, low salt, or other special diets, and residents have meal plans, snacks, and guest meals available plus guest parking for visitors. Camino Real lets people keep small pets and has no smoking in any of the indoor areas. Onsite, there are spaces for meditation, worship, clubs, activities, arts and crafts, a library, billiards, a game room, and a fitness center, along with beauty and barber services, so there's always something to do or somewhere to sit and talk to friends. Outdoor spaces include a courtyard, gardens, common patios, and walking paths which are easy to reach, even with mobility challenges since the entire building is wheelchair accessible, has elevators, and sliding glass doors to outdoor areas.

Staff at Camino Real help with daily needs like bathing, dressing, medication reminders and management, grooming, hygiene, toileting, and urinary incontinence care, and they are trained in many areas like aging, behavior management, heart health, chronic illnesses, and disability care, with consistent medication checks and emergency systems in every room for safety and peace of mind. The community offers extra help for people with memory loss, including Alzheimer's and dementia, and has specialized programs and spaces to keep residents safe and engaged. Nurses and aides are on hand for health support, immunizations, therapy, rehabilitation, hospice services, and regular health checks, and there's wheelchair transportation for appointments and shopping trips as well.

Housekeeping, laundry, mail delivery, maintenance, pest control, and trash removal are all included, so residents don't have to worry about chores, and there are guest suites for visiting family. There's a busy calendar of events and social opportunities, but there have been some challenges with keeping up with activities for everyone, though efforts continue to offer outings, happy hours, group fitness classes, music, gardening, social clubs, and educational talks. The community supports people in both English and Spanish, with large dining rooms, lounge spaces, and meeting rooms open for group gatherings, plus devotional services available onsite. Camino Real has a community score of 9.8 and provides options to pay for care with check, credit card, long-term care insurance, private funds, and through Veterans Aid benefits. The goal is to offer private, respectful living with just the right care for each person, letting people stay active, social, and safe in a comfortable place with helpful staff who care about every resident.

Camino Real (Brookdale) is managed by Brookdale.

Brookdale Senior Living Inc. (NYSE: BKD) is the largest senior living operator in the United States, managing over 640 communities with capacity for approximately 59,000 residents across 41 states and employing around 36,000 associates. Founded in 1978 and publicly traded since 2005, Brookdale solidified its market leadership through major acquisitions including American Retirement Corporation (2006) and Emeritus Senior Living (2014), making it the only national full-spectrum senior living company. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Brookdale has topped the American Seniors Housing Association's ASHA 50 list and Argentum's largest providers list for multiple consecutive years.

The company's comprehensive care continuum includes independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, and continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Brookdale's signature Clare Bridge program, developed over 30 years ago by dementia-care experts, provides specialized Alzheimer's and dementia care through two distinct levels: Clare Bridge communities for comprehensive memory support and the Clare Bridge Solace program for advanced-stage dementia residents. The program is recognized by the Alzheimer's Association® for incorporating evidence-based Dementia Care Practice Recommendations and features secure environments, enclosed courtyards, Daily Path programming with six structured activities daily, and the InTouch technology platform offering personalized brain-stimulating games and therapeutic content.

Brookdale's holistic Optimum Life® wellness approach balances six dimensions—Purposeful, Physical, Emotional, Social, Spiritual, and Intellectual—implemented through signature programs including B-Fit (eight exercise class options), Brain Fit (mental fitness workouts), My Life Story (resident storytelling), EngagementPlus (interest-based connections), Growing Together (collaborative learning), and The Ageless Spirit (kindness and gratitude practices). The Embrace Family Partnership provides caregiver education and support for families of memory care residents.

The company's Brookdale HealthPlus® care coordination model, winner of the 2024 Argentum Best of the Best Award placing it among the top 1% of operators, is a technology-enabled healthcare service featuring dedicated RN Care Managers who proactively manage residents' health, coordinate care transitions, and help prevent avoidable hospitalizations. Communities using HealthPlus report 78% fewer urgent care visits, 36% fewer hospitalizations, and 63% more completed annual wellness visits. The Personal Solutions program delivers hygiene products, medications, and daily necessities directly to residents' doors with discreet packaging and monthly billing convenience.

Following a strategic divestiture of its home health and hospice operations to HCA Healthcare (completed December 2023), Brookdale now focuses exclusively on senior living operations while maintaining its position as the industry's largest operator, committed to its mission of enriching lives with compassion, respect, excellence, and integrity.