Best Memory Care Design 2017: A Small House That Really Feels Like Home

Lynn Peel didn’t just want a small house-style memory care community —she wanted a small house.
That’s why the standalone memory care community she runs, The Mooring on Foreside, in Cumberland Foreside, Maine, has only 12 residents. It is the 2017 Senior Housing News Architecture and Design Award winner for “Best Standalone Memory Care.” And it is giving residents deeply personalized care. The Mooring’s key break from the small house model is using only one house, as opposed to a series of houses. In small house nomenclature, each of these houses is a “pod.” The typical small house community includes multiple pods, all the same size, so that everything residents need is in their small house.
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