Maple
Crest Manor is a stylish, modern facility designed for those requiring extra
care in their twilight years and beyond.
This facility has been providing exceptional care with a skilled nursing
staff since 1976. Maple Crest Manor
provides quality physical care in the form of 24-hour nursing staff and
visiting physicians. This community also
places a heavy focus on keeping the residents involved and actively
engaged. By providing a life enrichment
program featuring dozens of activities and a wellness program that runs six
days a week, residents are kept entertained and cognitively engaged through a
variety of activities and events. Maple
Crest Manor's extensive calendar of activities greatly impacts the consumers
that reside here. Maple Crest also helps residents celebrate holidays such as Valentine's Day and Easter by providing unique activities such as Valentine's bingo and royalty and Easter egg coloring.
While it is easily seen when the
body begins to decline on the exterior, we do not always consider how the body
is deteriorating on the inside. It is
equally important to train and maintain the mind as it is the body. Maple Crest provides activities that aid in
keeping the brain active. While it can
be difficult to cater activities to the different cognition levels of
residents, the facility does an excellent job of providing events for everyone,
no matter the level. All individuals have the opportunity to go for walks, converse with staff
and community members and attend sing-a-longs.
Residents can also choose to participate in Wii game shows, wheel of
fortune, bingo, crosswords, spelling bees, Yahtze, and card games which all are
meant to keep the mind active and entertain at the same time. Many clients enjoy playing card games because
it gives them a chance to interact with others as well as exercise their
competitive side. Bingo also is a
popular activity for the same reasons. On top of the activities on site, staff take residents out to eat and to other events such as Upper Iowa basketball games in order to get them out for awhile and involved with the community.
The residents often get the chance to play with volunteers from the
community including the 4-H council, the West Central 3rd graders, the Upper
Iowa basketball and tennis teams, and the EYE sorority girls. Besides the games, the facility also hosts several
social hours, meditation, storytelling and prayer, and reminiscing
sessions. These allow the residents to
keep their communication skills intact and exercise both their short and long
term memory.
Compared with other facilities of
this nature in northeast Iowa, Maple Crest Manor offers several similar
activities including trips to restaurants, space for aerobics, balloon
volleyball and games, and a spa that offers nail and hair care to all
residents. Being such a small community,
the whole area seems more close knit and residents benefit from students from
the university and surrounding areas coming in to participate in activities
with them. Residents even have the opportunity to hand out candy to kids who come in costume during Halloween.
Adding to this, there are
several guests and reverends that come in to interact with the clients multiple
times per week Maple Crest Manor also
utilizes technology by playing games on the Wii, which is unique compared to
many similar nursing homes and assisted living communities. On top of staying cognitively active,
residents have access to and the chance to experience this newer technology.
Overall, Maple Crest Manor is a
quality assisted living center and nursing home situated in a small, tight knit
community that offers a wide range of activities and events to the
clients. By keeping residents engaged physically
and cognitively as well as providing activities that stimulate conversation and
exercise the long and short term memory, this facility keeps clients
sufficiently entertained while keeping their minds and bodies engaged.
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