LiveWell Campus
Building a Dementia Positive community to support cognitive health and redefine living well with dementia
The LiveWell campus is transforming to support a dementia positive community. The new campus will offer innovative residential spaces that balance independence and safety as well as a community hub that will offer a variety of programming in spaces designed to support cognitive health and redefine life with dementia. This transformation will promote the strengths that remain as people navigate cognitive change on their own terms. Living well with dementia is not only possible, it will become the standard.
LiveWell Campus
Building a Dementia Positive community to support cognitive health and redefine living well with dementia
The LiveWell campus is transforming to support a dementia positive community. The new campus will offer innovative residential spaces that balance independence and safety as well as a community hub that will offer a variety of programming in spaces designed to support cognitive health and redefine life with dementia. This transformation will promote the strengths that remain as people navigate cognitive change on their own terms. Living well with dementia is not only possible, it will become the standard.
Excitement is Building
When the project is complete in 2024 the new campus will offer new assisted living options including two new family-style homes that use wearable technology to promote independent living, skilled nursing options that are unlike anything else in Connecticut and a Center for Resilient Living that will serve as a hub for a variety of programming offered in spaces designed with intentionality for their distinct purpose. Join us for an upcoming information session to see how the new campus will support the empowerment of people living with dementia.
Excitement is Building
When the project is complete in 2024 the new campus will offer new assisted living options including two new family-style homes that use wearable technology to promote independent living, skilled nursing options that are unlike anything else in Connecticut and a Center for Resilient Living that will serve as a hub for a variety of programming offered in spaces designed with intentionality for their distinct purpose. Join us for an upcoming information session to see how the new campus will support the empowerment of people living with dementia.
Dementia Positive
Our mission is to be the epicenter of a dementia positive movement. Through an innovative campus, practices, and supports, the well-being and resiliency of people living with dementia, and anyone who values cognitive health is at the core of everything we do. Through care, research, education, professional consulting, and advocacy we will spread the impact of what we learn, practice, and model on campus to communities around Connecticut, the US, and worldwide.
Dementia Positive
Our mission is to be the epicenter of a dementia positive movement. Through an innovative campus, practices, and supports, the well-being and resiliency of people living with dementia, and anyone who values cognitive health is at the core of everything we do. Through care, research, education, professional consulting, and advocacy we will spread the impact of what we learn, practice, and model on campus to communities around Connecticut, the US, and worldwide.
What you will experience
Our work is in human development. Our partners and teachers are people who are living with cognitive changes and the people who care about them and for them. We are constantly exploring how people living with dementia can flourish and live resilient lives as they experience changes.
Connection
Interdisciplinary Approach
Each of our neighborhoods is co-lead by talented people from the fields of nursing, occupational therapy, social work and recreation therapy. This ensures a balanced interdisciplinary effort that enables each resident to best adapt to the changes they are experiencing physically, cognitively, socially and emotionally.
Community Engagement
Regular events like farmers’ markets, live music performances, happy hours, and holiday celebrations help residents and families engage with each other and have fun at LiveWell. Regular outings like baseball games, beach, wineries, farms and local fitness centers help our residents maintain their connections to a wider community
Relationships Matter
Uniquely Designed Environment
Gourmet Cuisine
Nutritious, fresh and restaurant-quality meals are delivered through an innovative menu to fit a variety of dietary needs.
campus and community services
Education
Lifestyle Habits for Brain Health
Lifestyle Habits for Brain Health was developed through collaboration with people living with cognitive change. The content reflects evidenced-based recommendations from behavioral neurologists and neuropsychiatrists specifically focused on improving brain health and overall well-being. Friends and family are welcome.
Courses & Workshops
LiveWell offers a variety of educational and social programming to empower those living with or loving someone with cognitive change to take an active role in their own health and wellbeing. With virtual and in-person options available, you are able to participate at home, in the community, or on our campus. Enroll in a course today and start living well with us.
BUILD ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES
Develop skills for managing memory loss, changes in problem solving, safety awareness, medication management and more by working with our specialized occupational therapy team. Create a supportive and safe environment at home with simple changes and the next generation of technology solutions.
Support Groups
Virtual Carepartners Group
Members of this group are supporting family members living at home in the community.
Virtual People Living with Dementia Group
This group is facilitated by a licensed clinician and designed for people living with cognitive change to gain a supportive network of peers.
Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Residences
For 30 years, LiveWell has been committed to designing a campus with intention to promote a balance of independence and safety that reflects the essence of what makes a residence a home. Our holistic approach enables each resident to adapt to the changes they experience on their own terms in an environment that fosters community, wellbeing, and belonging.
With that goal in mind, the LiveWell campus is currently transforming. When construction and renovations are complete, the campus will include unprecedented resources and facilities for people living with dementia on and off our campus.
Contact us today to learn more about living on campus.
Kristina Tighe – Welcome & Resource Coordinator
ktighe@livewell.org | 860.628.3053
Campus History
In 1992 a taskforce on Alzheimer’s and Dementia helped to establish the Alzheimer’s Resource Center of Connecticut as a pilot program to create unique environments that would serve to support people living with the disease in a residential setting in a new way. With an emphasis on designing spaces that reflected nature and other cues that indicated to people that there were in a residential space and not an institutional space. This transformative model aimed to offer people living with cognitive change spaces that supplemented their ability to comprehend their surroundings in a more meaningful way.
Back then, the goal was to design supports for people based on what we observed they needed. Experience over the last 30 years has taught us that better support looks like co-creating and co-designing solutions with people because cognitive decline doesn’t erase a person’s ability to contribute meaningful input.
Recognizing the imbalance of power that exists around creating support, resources, and places to live is essential to reimagining an approach where empowering individuals directly experiencing the effects of cognitive change informs the path forward. It is about more than improving support and services, its about establishing a dementia positive community together.
The LiveWell campus is transforming to include infrastructure to enable a dementia positive community to grow and flourish. The first phase of this transformation will include construction of two new residential spaces that use pioneering technology to promote independent living, as well as a campus center to serve as a hub for a variety of programming offered in spaces designed with intentionality for their distinct purpose so that when you walk into a room, you intuitively know why you’re there and know what to expect. The second phase of the transformation will include complete renovations of current skilled nursing and assisted living spaces that will promote more privacy and direct access outside.
When construction and renovations are complete, the LiveWell campus will offer even better opportunities for individuals and families to make care choices that are driven by personal values, identities, and a sense of belonging rather than being assigned a care plan that is dictated by an institution’s “memory care” routine. This community will support cognitive health and redefine life with dementia by helping people to adapt to cognitive change on their own terms. Living well with dementia is not only possible, it will become the standard.
Our mission is to be the epicenter of a dementia positive movement. Through the innovative campus, practices, and supports, the well-being and resiliency of people living with dementia, and anyone who values cognitive health will be at the core of everything we do. Through research, education, professional consulting, and advocacy we will spread the impact of what we learn, practice, and model on campus to communities around Connecticut, the US, and worldwide.