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Plan for Alzheimer’s home still aliveBv Leah BerenholzThe Hazel Crest Zoning Board Wednesday approved a plan that would bring an Alzheimer’s assisted living facility to the village.The proposal calls for Arden Courts, a 56-room facility, to be built on 183rd Street between Pulaski Road and Lawndale Avenue.It will house people diagnosed with early- to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease, who do not have other serious physical ailments.Maureen Strauts, an attorney for ManorCare Health Services, Inc., the builder of Arden Courts and other similar care centers, said the Alzheimer’s residents are encouraged to live somewhat independently.“They need assistance in one or two daily living activities, like reminders to take medications or bathing but their independence is encouraged,” Strauts said.The patients in ManorCare Alzheimer’s care units have their own living areas they can decorate with their own furniture from home, Strauts said. Residents will have a choice of single or double bedrooms.An Alzheimer’s patient who is bedridden or has other physical medical needs would not qualify to live in a facility likeArden Courts because the unit will not have 24-hour nursing care, Strauts said.Alzheimer’s patients have been found to deteriorate faster physically and mentally in nursing homes because they live with people who are sicker than them and nursing homes are not designed to encourage independent living, Strauts said.ManorCare, which was one of the initial developers of Alzheimer’s care units, has nursing homes throughout the Chicagoland area and one Alzheimer’s center in South Holland“The State of Illinois licenses these facilities and determined a need in this■ See MANOR, Page A-4
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Hazel Crest Star
Hazel Crest, Illinois, US
Sun, Dec 14, 1997
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