Care By Design is a small senior living home in Meridian, Idaho, with just four private rooms and a focus on memory care, assisted living, and nursing services for people living with Alzheimer's disease or those who need help with daily tasks. Seniors who need regular nursing or who can't get out of bed, as well as folks who are still mostly mobile but might need a hand with meals, cleaning, or getting dressed, find the care here fits that more personal style you get from a place that takes in only three or four residents at a time, and they keep a close caregiver-to-resident ratio since they've always stuck to high standards and stayed certified both as a Family Home and a Veteran Medical Foster Home.
The home allows dogs up to 40 pounds, and dogs are part of their regular memory care programming, so if someone likes animals or wants to bring their own, it's allowed under the pet policy. There's a full-time activity director for memory care, so special events like birthday parties, picnics, and BBQs are held, and there's both indoor and outdoor common areas like a backyard patio, meeting room, and TV lounge, with a swimming pool and raised garden beds for recreation. All rooms are on the ground floor and come with Wi-Fi, cable or satellite TV, air conditioning, and bathtubs, which makes them easy to access and comfortable. Food is made by a cook with a Culinary Degree, and menus cover vegetarian, vegan, low or no sodium, and no sugar meals, using fresh ingredients.
Care By Design provides medication management, high acuity care, ambulatory and non-ambulatory services, incontinence support, and 24-hour care. Transportation is available by van for outings or appointments, and the facility is close to parks, pharmacies, doctors, cafés, restaurants, and hospitals. Housekeeping, laundry, and dry cleaning are part of the routine. Residents can use the swimming pool from the local subdivision, and there's resident parking. The place keeps a nonprofit focus to offer help in a family setting, trying to make things comfortable and personalized for every resident. Monthly rates for private rooms are $4,500.
