Cape Elizabeth Memory Care is a specialty senior living facility located in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The facility primarily serves individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, offering memory care as its central service. Residents receive support through personalized care plans that address their unique needs and challenges associated with memory loss. Staff provide 24-hour support, medication management, and supervision. The community also offers structured activities intended to encourage engagement and help maintain cognitive health. Cape Elizabeth Memory Care advertises a focus on resident safety and has communicated commitments to enhancing safety protocols and overall well-being, although no significant new initiatives or programmatic changes have been announced recently.
Cape Elizabeth Memory Care offers assistance with a range of medical and personal care tasks to meet residents’ needs. Incontinence care is available, with staff managing personal hygiene and changing needs as required. The facility provides full assistance with all activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, eating, and toileting. For residents who require help with mobility, ambulatory care services are provided, and staff assist those who may be at risk of falls or have limited mobility. Diabetes care is available, which may include medication or insulin administration and monitoring of blood glucose levels. Podiatry services are also offered, typically through scheduled visits from healthcare providers specializing in foot care.
Despite the available care services, aggregated resident and family reviews report significant dissatisfaction with care quality and facility conditions. Common concerns include frequent understaffing, poor cleanliness, and inadequate personal care, with reports of residents left in soiled clothing or with unhygienic hair and living areas. Concerns have also been raised about limited resident engagement, lack of structured activities, and insufficient support during meals. Families have noted lapses in communication with outside healthcare providers, including hospice, and delays in response to resident falls and accidents. While a few staff members are described as caring, overall management responsiveness and attention to residents’ needs have been criticized, with serious allegations regarding safety, hygiene, and consistent delivery of care.
Costs at this community start at $4,195 and range up to $6,397. The average price in the community is $5,296, which is less than the average price in the area of $6,941. The cost of memory care in this area is essentially the same as the cost throughout the state. If the resident needs other services, additional services may increase the monthly cost.
