Sherman Adult Care Home sits in a quiet Portland neighborhood and offers a home-like setting for seniors who need different kinds of care, and you'll find it welcomes adults both under and over 65, with a tender, caring touch. This is a small board and care community, sometimes called an Adult Foster Home or Personal Care Home depending on the state, and you'll notice right away the big private bedrooms, three full baths, cozy living areas, and shared resident bathrooms with roll-in showers to help those who use manual or power wheelchairs or scooters get around easy. The fenced-in backyard gives residents a spot to relax in the sun, and there's wheelchair-accessible navigation from room to room. Residents can bring pets, and staff consider each resident's individual needs so they can make their own choices whenever possible.
Sherman Adult Care Home specializes in memory care for people with Alzheimer's and dementia. There's a secured memory care section built especially for safety, with WanderGuard bracelets, door alarms, and a computerized wander alert system that tells staff right away if someone tries to leave. The team has training to work with people who have challenging behavioral symptoms, cognitive needs, or wandering risk, and they can handle exit-seeking behaviors and various other diagnoses, including mental illness, Parkinson's, stroke, Huntington's disease, MS, diabetes, brain injuries, alcohol or drug dependency, and many others.
Residents get 24-hour awake supervision, reminders for daily living activities, and help with things like medication management, insulin injections and blood sugar checks, grooming, bathing, and dressing. The caregivers also provide meals-three fresh, home-made gourmet ones every day, with something special for Sundays-plus standby assistance for transferring, incontinence care, catheter care, colostomy support, exercise regimes, hospice support, night care, respiratory oxygen, sliding scale insulin, and more. While children under 18 can't stay, the home works well for adults who need different types of support, including those with aggressive behaviors, but doesn't provide wound care, tube feeding, or two-person transfer you'd see in a larger nursing facility, even though a one-person transfer assist or use of mechanical lifts is available. The home has secured entry, a monitoring system, and staff that's attentive to residents who might tend to wander or are at elopement risk.
Daily activities encourage socialization and friendship, with programs structured for social, educational, and entertainment purposes so that every resident can feel like they're part of the community. Residents have plenty of chances for memory-boosting and cognitive engagement activities, and the staff focuses on helping each person stay as independent as possible while stepping in when needed. Sherman Adult Care Home also offers respite care for temporary stays, accepts residents' pets, allows smoking and medical marijuana, and provides equal housing opportunity. The setting acts as a quiet retreat from the busy city, operated by Feyissa Woticha, who emphasizes a warm, inviting place for seniors to live safely with compassionate, ongoing care.
