The Army Residence Community Health Care Center sits inside The Army Residence Community in San Antonio, TX, and offers several kinds of senior living care, like independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing. The assisted living units total thirty and come in choices like studio, one-bedroom, semi-private, and two-bedroom layouts, all with in-room washer and dryer, lots of closets, ADA compliant private baths, and emergency alert systems. Options also include cottages, duplexes, and high-rise apartments. Veterans from any service branch, retired civilian federal employees, their spouses, and surviving spouses aged sixty-two or older can live here.
Care teams provide individually tailored care plans, including help with daily living activities like bathing, dressing, moving from bed to wheelchair, spoon feeding, incontinence management, medication assistance, and monitoring for diabetes. Nurses are licensed and on hand around the clock. There's a full health care center on site for case management, pharmacy needs, regular screenings, rehabilitative therapies like speech, occupational, and physical therapy, and special care for conditions such as Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, and diabetes.
Residents get freshly made meals planned by a chef, with special menus for pureed food and dietary needs, and choices for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and even special occasion dining in the Water's Edge Restaurant or Bluebonnet Dining Room, plus options for takeout. Apartments include all utilities except phone. For personal care, the center offers a beauty salon and grooming services, and is pet-friendly, welcoming both cats and dogs on a leash.
To keep residents social and active, the community employs full-time activity directors and organizes over one hundred fifty events every month-like trips, outings, field trips, creative games, birthday celebrations, and communal gatherings. There are devotional services, chapel visits, a life enrichment program, and plenty of planned fitness, exercise, and educational programs taking place in spaces like an exercise room, art and crafts studio, computer room, library, snack shop, cafe, and theater. Large TVs and computer classes are available. Residents use shared or private transportation for offsite activities and appointments.
There are landscaped courtyards, walking and jogging paths, secured grounds for safety, and apartment upkeep services. The community has a flexible visiting policy, supports both independent and supported living, and can provide help with non-ambulatory care. Staff assist with moves between beds and wheelchairs, pharmacy services, and provide regular health and medication checks. Extra touches include special party meals, snacks between meals, communal kitchens, and a strong sense of community where folks form meaningful friendships and enjoy many amenities. Fees depend on the level of care, type of unit, and extra services chosen.
