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The Center is facilitated by specially trained caregivers who provide services to residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementias. The staff assesses the individual and develops Care Plans to maximize the independence of the resident by engaging in in-house programs and provide around-the-clock professional assistance. Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers represent at Illinois long-term care clients who reside in facilities like Arden Courts of Elk Grove.
Arden Courts of Elk Grove
This Nursing Facility is a 56-certified-bed ‘for profit’ Home providing services and cares to residents of Elk Grove and Cook and DuPage County, Illinois. The Sheltered Care-bed Center is located at:
1940 Nerge Road
Elk Grove Il 60007
847-534-8815
The facility offers respite care and engagement therapy along with cares and services to an exclusive population of individual suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias that include:
- Lewy body dementia
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Huntington’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Mixed dementia
- Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Elk Grove Long Term Care Home Resident Safety Concerns
To be fully informed on the level of care LTC homes provide, families routinely research the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) database system for a comprehensive list of filed complaints, safety concerns, health violations and opened investigations. This data provides valuable content to make a well-informed decision of where to place a loved one who requires the highest level of health care and hygiene assistance. The Cook and DuPage County abuse and neglect attorneys at Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers have reviewed all health violations, safety concerns, and deficiencies at every long-term care facility in Illinois.
Dementia
Providing care for a loved one suffering with dementia can pose significant challenges and disruptions in the lives of family members and caregivers. The highly progressive biological brain disorder creates significant challenges for those suffering in remembering things, clearly communicating or their independence. Additionally, dementia sufferers endure mood swings and significant changes in their behavior and personality.
In general, dementia describes a variety of symptoms and conditions. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia affecting approximately 70% of all men and women suffering from memory loss. Commonly, there are significant changes in the individual’s brain that leads to dementia which tends to be progressive and permanent. However, in some cases, the symptoms of dementia can be reversed. These symptoms include drug side effects, depression, vitamin deficiency and excessive alcohol use.
Dealing with Troubling Behaviors
One of the more significant difficulties in providing care to a loved one suffering from dementia includes dealing with their behaviors and personality changes that tend to occur frequently. Family members and caregivers must often be creative, patient, flexible and compassionate and not take the actions of their loved one personally. Usually, the changing behaviors of a loved one are triggered somehow or serve a purpose in the individual’s life.
The individual suffering with dementia usually lacks the capacity to communicate their wants and needs. In some situations, they may remove all the clothing from their closet, making others wonder why. Likely, the behavior serves a fulfilling desire to remain productive and busy.
Sometimes, behaviors are triggered by a change or action in their physical environment such as hearing a song, seeing another individual or the unexpected/expected action of a caregiver. Determining the root cause of the individual’s changing behavior can help disrupt their patterns and create a different consequence. In many incidences, reducing clutter, noise or crowded conditions, reducing sugar intake, caffeine and other foods that produce high energy can make a dramatic positive effect in minimizing the sufferer’s disruptive behavior.
Even more discouraging, many of the factors influencing the odd behavior of the individual tend to be a part of the natural progression of dementia. This means that any positive solution when managing or changing a loved one’s behaviors that work effectively today might require modification tomorrow or lack the ability to produce positive results.
Placing a Loved One in a Memory Care Community
Families are often confused about where to start in finding assistive nursing and hygiene care once a loved one has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. Studies indicate that detecting the condition early and developing effective interventions can help preserve the individuals remaining capacities and assist in slowing the progression of the disease.
Involvement by family members is often encouraged in long-term care centers to ensure that relationships are maintained. To do that, families must visit often to be a part of dinners, events, family nights and special celebrations. Like most long-term care facilities, Arden Courts of Elk Grove offers educational seminars and support groups to assist families with loved ones coping with dementia.
Elk Grove Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers
If you suspect your spouse, parent or grandparent has suffered harm through abuse, neglect or mistreatment while a resident at Arden Courts of Elk Grove, call Rosenfeld Injury Lawyers. Our knowledgeable Elk Grove attorneys can offer legal assistance on your behalf to ensure your case for financial compensation is successfully resolved against all parties who caused your loved one harm.
We encourage you to contact our Cook County area elder abuse law office today by calling (888) 424-5757 to schedule your complimentary initial no-obligation, case evaluation. Our law firm does not require any upfront payment because we accept all nursing home neglect and abuse cases through contingency fee agreements.
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