REPEAT CLIENT: NEW ORLEANS EQUITY PARTNERS   LOCATION: DENTON, TEXAS

With a philosophy of caring as its core, Sage Oak Assisted Living provides outstanding service based on the belief that it is a community’s responsibility to preserve the health, safety, comfort, and general welfare of our seniors who may be suffering from loneliness and anxiety and require special care.

With a higher caregiver to resident ratio compared to a typical nursing home, Sage Oak Assisted Living ensures attentive and specialized care to meet each resident's specific needs.

Sage Oak Assisted Living Complex in Denton, TX now provides amenities such as:

 
 

Residential Assisted Living follows the concept of a single family home that the elderly are accustomed to living in their entire life.
The benefits of this type of care include:

  • BETTER CAREGIVER RATIO

  • BETTER FOOD TAILORED TO INDIVIDUAL TASTES

  • BETTER SOCIALIZATION

  • BETTER OVERALL MEDICAL CARE

The layout of the purpose built homes is designed to maintain a home-like feel with a common area for family visits, meals and activities. The individual bedrooms are located in smaller pods to as to create shorter hallways and minimize the feeling of an institution.

The Center for Disease Control recently published a study showing the trip and fall injuries are 50% less prevalent in the residential care homes, compared with larger institutional type residences. This is a major factor in elder care.

Applying an assisted living building prototype, Greenleaf’s flexible design supports different care levels and is based on the client’s project in Louisiana. Focusing on increasing the number of building units and enlarging the administration elements to accommodate the added units, site adaptation, increasing the project capacity/scope, and adjusting for different code and health care requirements were a few of the many obstacles associated with the assisted living complex application.

Through the research of local codes and healthcare requirements, Greenleaf Architects modified the residential assisted living building prototype without compromising the design of the prototype which encouraged cognitive awareness while providing intuitive, functional spaces for an assisted living and memory care complex. Greenleaf Architects also continues to improve the prototype design based on the experience and lessons learned during the Sage Oak project in Louisiana.