If you think the process of arranging care for your loved one has to be difficult, let us show you how easy it can be with Renaissance Gardens:
Q: How can I obtain Renaissance Gardens health care services for myself or my loved one?
Q: What types of residences are available?
Q: Who determines what Renaissance Gardens services will be provided for my loved one?
Q: Who picks the resident’s actual residence?
Q: What is the process for moving into Renaissance Gardens?
Q: What is the process for arranging Respite Care?
Q: Must a person first be a resident of an Erickson community to move into Renaissance Gardens?
Q: Is there a waiting list for Renaissance Gardens?
Q: What is the typical availability of residences?
Q: Is there an age requirement for Renaissance Gardens?
Q: May spouses live together in Renaissance Gardens if one spouse does not need care?
Q: How can I obtain Renaissance Gardens health care services for myself or my loved one?
A: To obtain Assisted Living*, Alzheimer’s Care, and Long-Term Nursing Care, you or your loved one actually moves into a Renaissance Gardens residence, typically for an extended period.
To obtain Respite Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation (physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies), you or your loved one stays in a Renaissance Gardens residence for a shorter period. That can be as little as a weekend in Respite Care—which is really designed to give you a break from caregiving responsibilities—to several months in Short-Term Rehabilitation.
At the conclusion of care, you or your loved one may return home (whether inside or outside the Erickson community), or go on to another form of care (inside or outside Renaissance Gardens), depending on the situation.
*Assisted Care in Massachusetts
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Q: What types of residences are available?
A: There are two types of residences: Assisted Living* apartments (all private), and nursing residences (all private, except for a few at Renaissance Gardens at Charlestown). Nursing residences are designed for residents whose health problems are more severe and require more careful monitoring by skilled professionals. So an Alzheimer’s or respite care patient may live in either Assisted Living or a nursing residence, depending on the severity of his or her condition.
In most Assisted Living* residences, Alzheimer’s Care or Respite Care is available for your loved one’s convenience. (Respite Care is not offered in Assisted Living* at Renaissance Gardens at Brooksby Village and Renaissance Gardens at Greenspring).
In nursing residences, your loved one may obtain Short-Term Rehabilitation (physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies), or Long-Term Nursing Care, including, as appropriate, Alzheimer’s Care or Respite Care. (Respite Care is not offered at Renaissance Gardens at Greenspring.)
NOTE: Alzheimer’s Care residents do not live in a segregated “unit.” Contact Us for arrangements at specific communities.
*Assisted Care in Massachusetts
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Q: Who determines what Renaissance Gardens services will be provided for my loved one?
A: Our on-site health care team—nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, and doctors (as needed)—will assess your loved one to determine the level of care that will most benefit him or her.
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Q: Who picks the resident’s actual residence?
A: Whenever possible, we allow your loved one to choose his or her residence. This is usually the case in Assisted Living*, where your loved one can pick from available studios and oversized apartments. In Short-Term Rehabilitation (physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies) or Long-Term Nursing Care, our health care staff will select one or more residences appropriate for your loved one’s physical, social, and health needs. If more than one such residence is available, your loved one may select the specific one he or she desires.
*Assisted Care in Massachusetts
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Q: What is the process for moving into Renaissance Gardens?
A: To move into Renaissance Gardens, your loved one must:
- Make an initial $1,000 refundable deposit and pay a $150 non-refundable processing fee
- Complete health information papers (this requires a doctor’s visit)
- Complete a Residence and Care Agreement, other legal documents, and a New Resident Packet
- Provide the refundable entrance deposit at settlement
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Q: What is the process for arranging Respite Care?
A: To stay at Renaissance Gardens temporarily for Respite Care, you or your loved one must:
- Complete health information papers (this requires a doctor’s visit)
- Pre-pay in full the total cost (based on the daily Respite Care rate)
- Complete a Respite Agreement and a New Resident Packet
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Q: Must a person first be a resident of an Erickson community to move into Renaissance Gardens?
A: No. Your loved one can move into Renaissance Gardens—either permanently or for limited stays for Respite Care and Short-Term Rehabilitation (physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies)
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Q: Is there a waiting list for Renaissance Gardens?
A: Yes. For each Renaissance Gardens neighborhood we have a Priority List. It is a record of everyone who has made a deposit at Renaissance Gardens, organized by the date of deposit. Whenever a residence becomes available, we call each person on the list, from the earliest depositor to the most recent, until someone moves in.
To join the Priority List, your loved one makes a $1,000 fully refundable deposit, pays a $150 processing fee, and completes the Renaissance Gardens Priority List application.
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Q: What is the typical availability of residences?
A:Assisted Living* residences may not become available for several months after your loved one joins the Priority List; at some of our most established communities the wait may be more than a year.
Short-Term Rehabilitation and Long-Term Nursing Care residences are often available more quickly, because there’s more of a turnover among these residents. At some communities, we may have a room opening up almost daily.
*Assisted Care in Massachusetts
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Q: Is there an age requirement for Renaissance Gardens?
A: Yes. The government classifies Erickson communities, including Renaissance Gardens neighborhoods, as Continuing Care Retirement Communities. In all states except Maryland, each resident of a Continuing Care Retirement Community must be 62-plus years old; in Maryland, each resident must be 60-plus years old.
If your loved one is not yet age-eligible in his or her state, he or she may join the Priority List for a Renaissance Gardens in that state.
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Q: May spouses live together in Renaissance Gardens if one spouse does not need care?
A: Spouses in this situation may live within the same Erickson community. Usually, one spouse lives in Renaissance Gardens, and the other in an independent living neighborhood.
Why? It is more expensive to live in Renaissance Gardens and Renaissance Gardens residences are smaller—one-bedroom apartments only. Besides, separate residences allow the caregiving spouse to “be a spouse again” and leave the health care chores to the Renaissance Gardens staff.
Should your loved ones choose to live together in Assisted Living* (one-bedroom apartments only), they may, as long as they understand the circumstances as described above.
*Assisted Care in Massachusetts
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