PARADISE VALLEY SENIOR LIVING

Paradise Valley Senior Living is a licensed assisted living center on North 38th Street in Phoenix, Arizona. State licensing records from the Arizona Department of Health Services list a capacity of 118 residents and approval to provide directed care, the highest of Arizona's three assisted living service levels, which allows the community to serve residents who are unable to direct their own care, including many people living with dementia.

Paradise Valley Senior Living is a pet-friendly retirement community on North 38th Street in north Phoenix offering assisted living, memory care, and respite care. The community describes a home-like environment and says each level of care is designed around residents' and families' needs, and it has been featured by Assisted Living Magazine among assisted living communities in Phoenix. Residents share chef-prepared meals in an elegant dining room, walk in a garden courtyard, and play cards or billiards in the game room, and the calendar includes exercise and art classes.

Families are invited to tour and stay for a meal. In Arizona, assisted living centers serve eleven or more residents and are licensed by the Department of Health Services at one of three service levels. Supervisory care covers general supervision and help in an emergency, personal care adds hands-on help with activities such as bathing, dressing, and medications, and directed care is for residents who can no longer recognize danger or direct their own care.

Knowing a community's level helps families judge whether it can keep meeting a loved one's needs over time. Offering assisted living and memory care in the same community means a resident whose memory changes over time may be able to move to the memory care setting without changing communities. It helps to ask how that transition is decided and who is involved. Arizona rules require an assisted living facility to prepare a written service plan for each resident that describes the care and services to be provided, and to review and update it as needs change.

Families can ask to take part in that review and to learn who to call when something in the plan no longer fits. Families can look up a community's license and inspection history on the state's AZ Care Check website before a visit, and reading recent inspection reports can show how a community has responded to any past findings. The Phoenix address keeps the community within reach of the area's hospitals, shopping, and services.

On a tour of Paradise Valley Senior Living, ask how the move-in assessment works, how the service plan is reviewed as needs change, how staffing looks on nights and weekends, and how families are kept informed. Local Senior Advisor is a free service to families. If you would like help comparing Paradise Valley Senior Living with other communities in Phoenix, or deciding which level of care fits, reach out for a short conversation.