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Liberty Ridge
M AY / J U N E 2 0 1 6
SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY
‘KEEPING RESIDENTS COMFORTABLE AND
HAPPY IN A FAITH-BASED ENVIRONMENT’
by Tanya J. Tyler,
Editor/Staff Writer
Liberty Ridge Senior
Living Community is
proud to be a ministry
of Eastland Church of God.
Located right next door to the
church at 701 Liberty Ridge Lane, the
community was established in 1999 to
help meet Lexington’s growing need
for high-quality, affordable housing
senior housing. It offers a variety of
lifestyle options, including independent living homes, assisted living
apartments and a memory care neighborhood. Liberty Ridge is managed by
SeniorLife Solutions, Inc., a professional management company with over
18 years of experience in operating
housing for the elderly, and is governed
by a church board.
“In the next three decades, we’re going to see an explosion of people that
are graduating into that senior demographic,” said Barry Brinegar, Sales and
Marketing Director. “So we’re going to
come up on a time where there’s going
to be so much more demand for senior
services.”
Liberty Ridge’s assisted living section
opened in 2000 with 45 apartments.
Twenty more apartments were added
in 2003. Liberty Ridge is one of only
three facilities in Lexington that is
certified by the Commonwealth of
Kentucky to provide assisted living services to residents. Included in
assisted living are assistance with all
activities of daily living, three meals a
day, basic cable, weekly housekeeping
and daily trash removal. The apartments have safety-equipped bathrooms
with low-barrier walk-in showers and
kitchenettes with small refrigerators
and microwave ovens. Each apartment
has an emergency response system to
alert on-site staff any time, day or night,
if the resident has an emergency. Small
pets are welcome as long as they are
housebroken, well-behaved and leashed
when outside of the apartments.
Because of the increased demand
for care for people with memory
disorders, Liberty Ridge recently converted a second section of the assisted
living community into a secured
memory care neighborhood with 12
additional memory care apartments
for a total of 19 apartments dedicated
for those who need dementia care.
“The folks that live in this secure
neighborhood get a lot of personalized care and attention and are
engaged with purposeful activities in
the community room,” Brinegar said.
“It’s a community model, so everyone
eats together. And we use the Best
Friends approach to Alzheimer’s
care.”
“The biggest thing in the memory
care unit is it’s a much smaller staffto-resident ratio, so we have one staff
member for every four residents,” said
Alexis Waugh, who works in sales and
marketing at Liberty Ridge. “That way
there’s a lot less frustration. The oneon-one attention really helps a lot.”