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Neighborhood Living
It has been found that many older adults begin to feel isolated as they age and their ability to leave their home is compromised. For this reason, the CURE Home is purposely designed to establish a small neighborhood which allows for daily social interactions that enable friendships and social activities to develop naturally.
A CURE Home neighborhood is made up of 4 homes that share a common area just outside their backdoor. Each exterior front door provides for private direct access to a home while the interior backdoor provides easy access to a shared common space for socializing with neighbors and hosting larger family gatherings. Neighborhood features include:
Exterior front door for each private home!
Backdoor access to common space shared with your neighbors complete with serving kitchen and gas fireplace.
Garage parking
Fitness area
Walking paths and pet exercise area
Community garden and outdoor living area
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Life-Care Assistance
Sometimes just a little assistance with scheduling needed services is all someone might need to continue to live independently. Managing daily taks is what we call Life Care and the CURE Home offers optional Life-Care Assistance to schedule non-clinical appointments and services for a variety of needs such as laundry, transportation, grocery shopping and more.
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Worry Free Home
In your CURE Home, you will enjoy comfortable home living but without home maintenance and upkeep. Your lawn will be mowed, the snow removed and maintenance will be provided on the exterior as well as on electrical, mechanical, plumbing and appliance components inside each home. Not only is the CURE Home maintained, regular cleaning services are provided for your home as well. Paying bills is a thing of the past, as the CURE Home includes all utilities, garbage collection, and internet service!
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Accessibility Features
Your CURE Home has been designed with the specific intent that your desire to remain in their home until end of life can be realized. With that goal in mind, and without sacrificing a homey comfortable interior design, accessibility standards have been incorporated into the design. Examples of such features include:
No steps in or outside your home!
3′ wide doors are standard throughout.
Zero-entry showers allow for independence and provide safety.
Lever-handles door hardware and fixtures allow for easy operation.
All pathways and living areas throughout the home can accommodate wheelchair use.
Window styles have been selected for ease in opening and closing.
Appliances require no reaching or bending.
Push button access to garage and exterior living areas.
And each home has an interior storm shelter!
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Adaptable Design
Another unique feature of a CURE Home is the home’s ability to adapt to changing needs as the resident ages. Though accessible design is a cornerstone of a CURE Home, specific details in its construction allow for easy modifications should the resident desire to make changes to the interior of their home, whether it be for accessibility or to accommodate care equipment. Because of the forethought in the design of the CURE Home, such modifications can be completed at a much lower cost and with less inconvenience to the resident and CURE Home Management will manage your project for you – start to finish. Examples of adaptable design features include:
Bathrooms and closets have been strategically designed to allow cabinets to easily be replaced with benches should the need arise.
Kitchens are thoughtfully designed to enable the lowering of a portion of the countertop to wheelchair height without a major renovation.
The support features needed to install grab bars have been built into the walls of the bathrooms so such features can be installed easily and in any location.
All passage doorways are 3’ wide with the framing to increase to 3’6” wide without any electrical or structural modifications.
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Home Health Ready
Needing to leave their home to have access to care is a worry for many elders. With the advancements of home health and care services and care technologies, care at all levels can be received in one’s CURE Home and most often at a lower cost than in traditional care settings. Often, one’s home cannot accommodate needed care or care equipment, but specialized design considerations in the CURE Home, which address accessibility and allow for the home’s adaptability (as discussed previously), aim to resolve this concern in a CURE Home.
In the CURE Home, health and care services are contracted independently by each resident as needed. Separating health and care services from housing services allows for a custom approach to each and provides for direct control over how your financial resources are allocated.
Recognizing the benefits of home health care, as well as the lower cost, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasingly expanding coverage for approved care to be provided in the home, including rehabilitation services.
Note: The CURE Home is not a medical or personal needs (bathing, dressing, toileting) care provider or a benefit advisor. We recommend you consult with your care and benefit providers to confirm coverage for home health and care services.
In the CURE Home, health and care services are contracted independently by each resident as needed.
For more information about
Medicare Coverage of Home
Health Services visit:
https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/10969-medicare-and-home-health-care.pdf
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Selecting your CURE Home
Though the CURE Home has been designed to accommodate aging-in-place, as much a part are the key features that provide for a comfortable, welcoming home!
A welcoming element of each CURE Home is its front door opening to the outside and visible from the street.
Windows throughout allow for plenty of natural light in to the living spaces.
In addition to storage in your home, each CURE Home has a private storage unit adjacent to the garage.
Spacious living areas allow for flexibility in furniture placement.
Function is matched by style inside and out.
Cure Homes are available in 1, 2 and 2 Bedroom Deluxe ranging in size from
1,020 – 1,400 sq. ft. of living space.