CARROLL CAMPBELL PLACE
A Home Away from Home
Designed by nationally renowned health care architects, Carroll Campbell Place offers exemplary care in a friendly, non-institutional environment for people with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. The 25,000-square-foot facility is comprised of two 18-bed units that provide the warmth and comfort of home.
Its features have been crafted with detail and purpose, providing residents with a sense of security in a tranquil and dignified setting. These include soothing, soft color schemes, automatic restroom lighting, recessed doors and short hallways to minimize wandering, and numerous windows that offer beautiful views while assisting in orientation to time and season. Each private room has a “memory box” for cherished items to help with personal recognition. And even the nurses’ stations fit into the home-like environment. In addition, Carroll Campbell Place offers controlled access, allowing residents the freedom they desire with the safety they need.
The peaceful atmosphere of Carroll Campbell Place also extends beyond its walls. Situated in a serene setting with a country feel, the center incorporates bird aviaries and access to Mama Sue’s Garden. These two outdoor therapeutic gardens provide residents with the freedom to enjoy being outside in a protected environment. The gardens feature fountains, water walls, music, sitting areas and walking paths.
COMFORT KEEPERS
The Columbia Comfort Keepers office was established almost seven years ago, and the franchise provides non-medical, in-home care for all those 18 and over. Some of Comfort Keeper’s clients need assistance only briefly as they recover from a recent surgery, for example, while others use the services daily and for longer durations of time. While most clients are older, they do serve a number of clients in early adulthood with some level of disability. An increasing proportion of their clients have dementia, and they provide experienced staff with special training to do this. An exciting new market involves providing care to new mothers.
Comfort Keepers typically provides service anywhere from one standard three-hour shift per week up to 24/7 care every day of the year. They also have special rates to provide care for one- or two-hour shifts. Service is currently available for most areas of the Midlands from Winnsboro to Orangeburg, and from Elgin to Batesburg-Leesville. Other Comfort Keepers franchises around the state are available to provide care in many other areas.
The goal at Comfort Keepers is to give clients a better quality of life and improve their families’ peace of mind. Their mission statement indicates that they strive to care for their clients as if they were members of their own family.
Comfort Keepers augments an adult’s independent living with assistance providing meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation to doctors’ offices or other errands outside the home, assistance with bathing, medication monitoring or other routine activities.
Most of their experienced caregivers are females, although some males are on staff, as well. Approximately one-fourth of the staff are Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). Payment is accepted from: private pay (rates are extremely competitive); long term care insurance; community funding resources; and insurance plans including, as applicable, worker’s compensation
They work to make families aware of different community funding sources that may be available to help pay for care.
The Comfort Keepers franchise agreement requires multiple, national background checks on all employees; these background checks are then repeated monthly. All staff are bonded and insured, and all are covered by workmen’s compensation. Phones are answered 24/7 by an experienced staff member; there are no answering machines or answering service.
FOREST PINES / DEEPWOOD ESTATES
It’s time to let someone else do the cooking, the cleaning, the mowing, even the driving. You’ve earned the right to relax and enjoy life — to spend days however you choose. For 40 years, in more than 300 locations across the U.S. and Canada, Holiday Retirement has been simplifying the lives of seniors by taking care of the daily details of life, leaving you free to focus on the things that make you happy. It’s an all–inclusive lifestyle they’re proud to have pioneered, and they invite you to experience just how satisfying and stress-free it can be. Don’t wait another minute to start living the carefree, retirement lifestyle you’ve always imagined. At Holiday Retirement, seniors enjoy the comfort of living in a community of their peers, and the security of live-in managers available around the clock. Tour a Holiday Retirement community and discover all there is to offer. Retirement is about new beginnings, and the time to begin is now.
THE HAVEN IN THE SUMMIT
The area’s premier community for Alzheimer’s and Dementia care. The Haven offers many activities and opportunities for residents every day, based on the latest clinical developments. Their unique approach to treating each person as an individual while remaining in contact with the world around them makes all the difference. The Main Street Life Skills area, for example, creates a sense of the same 1950s and 60s neighborhoods that many residents formerly experienced. The beauty parlor, ice cream shop and other Main Street areas recreate a sense of community and routines that are familiar. A landscaped courtyard raised planting beds for easy gardening and walking paths promote a positive atmosphere. Visit soon to learn more about this great community!
LAUREL CREST
Situated across from the cityscape of Columbia along the beauty of the Congaree River, Laurel Crest offers the perfect balance of vibrancy and security in retirement living. Independent living cottages and apartment homes feature wood flooring, stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Exceptional dining, weekly housekeeping, transportation and a full calendar of outings and events are just some of the services included.
As a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), Laurel Crest has assisted living, skilled nursing care and special care for memory support which provide outstanding care in an intimate setting. Home care and therapy services are also available on-site. They are ready to help if life changes should occur, so you and your loved ones can enjoy retirement, worry-free.
LONG’S DRUGS
Long’s secret is taking care of people. They have forged great relationships with their clients and have been relied upon as problem solvers, centered on the Medication Therapy Management and home care issues of individuals with health care problems.
When the price is the same (or better) and the pills are the same when you get home, what happens in the process of getting those prescriptions filled is what matters most. That’s the “Long’s experience.”
Long’s provides available and willing pharmacists who want to know you and your healthcare issues. They offer a diverse inventory and compounding services, along with providing solutions to price, free delivery, accurate and prompt “while you wait” service in a private, safe and comfortable environment with store front parking.
Lutheran Homes of South Carolina
In the heart of the Midlands, scenic Upstate and coastal Lowcountry, Lutheran Homes offers Choices for Living Well.
BeWell, Bringing Everyone Wellness Enrichment for Lasting Life, is Lutheran Homes’ innovative wellness standard. BeWell promotes successful aging through supportive programs to help prevent illness and conditions associated with losing independence; maintain optimal physical and mental functioning; and remain engaged in life.
BeWell’s unique approach to successful aging begins with you. They work together to develop personalized wellness plans that enable you to enjoy life as independently and comfortably as possible. The holistic philosophy incorporates six key components of wellness:
- Spiritual: finding faith and meaning in life
- Emotional: feeling positive and enthusiastic about life
- Intellectual: lifelong learning and cultural activities
- Physical: improving strength,endurance, flexibility and healthy lifestyles
- Social: fostering supportive relationships
- Vocational: developing and maintaining skills
Whether you live on or off our campuses, Lutheran Homes offers choices for life-enriching activities, and plenty of people to enjoy them with. Whatever you choose — improved health, cultural enrichment or spiritual renewal, they’ll be there to inspire you.
In the continuing care retirement communities, independent adults choose to live in single-family patio homes, cottages or apartments with amenities for a chore-free, active lifestyle.
When more help is needed, Assisted Living provides support with activities of daily living. Memory Support programs offer innovative care for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related memory concerns. Rehabilitation and Healthcare Centers meet short-term recovery and long-term health needs.
BeWell Home Services offers a variety of choices for personal assistance and home maintenance services tailored to fit your lifestyle. Lutheran Hospice offers compassionate care to meet patients’ end of life choices.
Lutheran Homes recognizes that you are choosing much more than a place to live or people to provide care. You are choosing a way to live.
With more than 100 years of experience, their reputation for quality precedes them. Learn more — log onto the website, call or visit. Embrace the rich history and Southern hospitality. It’s your choice. Choose Lutheran Homes of South Carolina … Choose to live well.
Full-service continuing care retirement communities are located at:
- Franke at Seaside in Mount Pleasant
- Rice Estate – NE Columbia
- The Heritage at Lowman – White Rock
- RoseCrest – Inman
- Trinity on Laurens – Aiken
- Lutheran Hospice and BeWell Home Services
- Lowcountry
- Midlands
- Upstate
SALUDA NURSING HOME
Saluda Nursing Center (SNC) is truly a special place filled with special residents cared for and loved by special people. The success is best told by relating the stories of a few of the thousands who have called on SNC for help.
One lady came to SNC from Brockport, N.Y., for rehab therapy to help her Parkinsonism. She came in by wheelchair via Columbia Airport. At the end of 30 days, she not only could walk but she also could drive her car again. While at SNC she was able to go on a trip to Myrtle Beach and walk on the sandy beach. She said that the trip to SNC was her “first true vacation.”
Another resident spent her last 11 years at SNC and told the administrator they were the best years of her life. Not a shabby statement from a lady who had raised five loving children.
Another young resident’s family was told that their daughter would never recover from a severe car accident. She not only relearned how to walk and talk, but also returned to school and lives at home today.
Another man was told he would never walk again after a farming accident that resulted in a spinal injury. It took 13 months and a lot of hard work on his part as well as that of the staff, but he was able to return to his home and farm and now does all his own work including riding the tractor. He has been able to resume his previous lifestyle.
Field trips, shopping trips, The S.C. State Fair, Riverbanks Zoo, the circus and fishing trips, are just a few of the outings SNC makes. In-house entertainment includes games on the Wii, men’s breakfast meetings, women’s breakfast meetings and a large beautiful greenhouse, just to name a few.
SNC’s in-house rehab therapy team and professional nursing staff provide an outstanding level of care in a clean and safe environment with overwhelming community support.
STILL HOPES
At Still Hopes, live well and live abundantly. Living an abundant life means living on your terms with the comfort, convenience and connections that bring purpose and enjoyment to every day. Still Hopes Episcopal Retirement Community has created an environment that helps residents do just that.
The Still Hopes community is located minutes from charming, accessible Columbia, S.C. – a soul-satisfying setting with the finest in natural and man-made amenities. Over more than 35 years, they’ve earned a reputation as one of the premier continuing care retirement communities in the state.
From fine dining to fine arts, there is much to enjoy when and how you choose. Take in a play or concert. Work up a sweat or work on a volunteer project. Entertain friends and family in the comfort of your own home. At the end of the day it’s the rich blend of people and place that makes Still Hopes so vibrant.
Still Hopes residents bring a lifetime of experience and wisdom to the community. They share their spirit, humor and love of culture. They bring a zest for life and an eagerness to embrace new people and opportunities.
The community provides many choices of accommodations and a wonderful atmosphere in which to enjoy life. Nestled on beautifully wooded grounds, natural amenities include two seasonal gardens, three ponds, fitness trails and a memorial forest maintained in perpetuity.
A walk of less than five minutes from anywhere on campus takes you to the Marshall A. Shearouse Center for Wellness, which includes a state-of-the-art gym with the best in cardiovascular and strength-training equipment, a warm-water therapy pool and fun, stimulating exercise classes.
Still Hopes residents enjoy additional services including:
- Scheduled transportation to appointments, shopping and events
- Exciting overnight trips to destinations including the Great Smoky Mountains Blue Ridge Parkway, Charleston and Savannah, Ga.
- Onsite classes taught by retired local university faculty
- Resident-driven clubs and interest groups
- A comprehensive health and wellness program with fitness activities and wellness counselors
The Still Hopes faith-based community offers a continuum of onsite health services, from temporary in-home assistance with shopping and dressing to a comprehensive memory care program. Physicians and nurses are available to assist residents with preventive self-care and to diagnose and treat illness.
