The focus will be centered around Healthy living while Aging (Long Term Care)
A private Holistic Retreat Long Term Care offers a unique residential experience on the island of Martha’s Vineyard (MV) for residents who need care with or without a disability. Martha’s Vineyard is considered a playground for the rich and famous for their rental and vacation homes. Located on West Chop in Vineyard Haven (Tisbury), our home includes countless amenities including flat screen televisions and high-speed Wi-Fi. It is walking distance from the Steamship Authority Ferry, as well as Main Street with its quaint shops, live theater, film and the famous Bunch of Grapes bookstore. Other activities and interests include: kayaking, art galleries, day sails, bike rentals and public beaches - all a short 7-10-minute walk into town. Mink Meadows Golf Course is right down the street from us, as well as magnificent walking trails to explore the beauty of the island’s landscapes. We offer private bedrooms, each with private bathroom; Movie screen, craft room and Large Family Kitchen. We are a family-owned and operated Retreat care home specializing in holistic healthy aging. We have a live-in nurse who is a great liaison with community services. We are available to our clients 24:7 to meet their needs. We offer constant, permanent staff who promote stability and a “home-like” environment for our residents. Thanks for considering “letting our family care for your family in communities across the country, there is a prominent trend toward broader and deeper approaches to wellness. Wellness is the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Holistic wellness allows us to achieve our goals and find meaning and purpose in our lives.
SERVICES
The home offers holistic services such as Skin care, meditation, music therapy, Yoga Stretching classes, we engage our residents in simple relaxing activities. We have a Juice bar with smoothies fruits and veggies.
- Accepts Private Pay Residents
- Private room and bath
- Quaint home like setting
- On the beautiful island of Martha’s Vineyard
- Licensed & certified Staff
- Providing Healthy Meals, Supplements and Snacks
- Providing Movement Therapy such stretching, yoga and micro-circulation device
- Providing Recreation and Movie night weekly
- Weekly Skin care with Organic Essential oils
- Transportation to Doctors appointments
- Weekly planned outings
HOLISTIC RETREAT LONG TERM CARE HOME IS UNIQUE, INNOVATIVE AND A GROWING TREND IN THE FIELD OF HOLISTIC WELLNESS
These residents admitted may suffer from a wide array of physical or mental disorders or they may simply be feeble and unable to move about, bath themselves or provide their own meals. These types of residents are considered long-term care — they will never recover or stabilize to the point where they can take care of themselves and go back home. These residents may be able to go home for weekends or short visits. In addition, many of these people, whether they are short-term or long-term residents, have health and or personal needs. It seems that the elderly is finding alternatives to the nursing home until their health gets to a point where the nursing home is the only option for care. This trend probably explains why the number of nursing home residents has not increased significantly over the past 10 years whereas the number of elderlies has increased remarkably over the last decade. Private care homes are a friendlier, supportive environment between staff and residents which produces happier and healthier residents, less worker turnover and overall generally better care. To do this requires abandoning part or the entire hospital model of nursing facilities.
The hospital model is not always best for people. It is easy for the hospital corporate giants because it’s easy to administer medications and some treatments because results can be quantitatively measured. Quantitative measurement simplifies accounting because it allows cost and reimbursement to be tied to performance standards. So-called case-mix pricing is based on measures of the time aides and nurses spend per patient. The amount of time spent caring for and assisting residents and dispensing medication is carefully documented for each resident. Under this system, sometimes residents are regarded as a commodity rather than a human being.
In essence, the hospital model is not for all people. Nursing home residents lose the opportunity to be an influence on their environm
ent which is so vital to our purpose as human beings. A holistic or “whole person” approach to nursing care provides an atmosphere where residents feel they have a reason to keep living. Dignity and self worth replace despair, loneliness, boredom and helplessness.
"Holistic" environment on a beautiful Island
Residents in a holistic environment where healthier food is being served, therapeutic treatments such as meditation, music therapy tends to live longer with a better quality of life according to research. Choice, privacy and a sense of identity are just some of the things that older people living in residential care need to maintain a good quality of life. The resident’s sense of self is developed by caring staff and therapist that work in a holistic environment where prayer, emotional and spiritual therapy is practiced.
Testimonial
“The staff in this Holistic Retreat Care home are special people”
The staff may assist with medications, help residents bathe, get dressed and perform many other daily tasks or activities of daily living. Because of the homes’ intimate settings, Staff can often specialize in particular resident needs such as Diabetes foot care, Blood Pressure monitoring, Skin Care, Memory care and Wanderers, residents with special diets, residents who speak a particular language, residents of a particular religion or cultural background, as well as other needs.
Resident Activities may involve board games, folding laundry, baking cookies, or preparing for the evening meal. Daily activities may include shopping, banking, trips to the local senior center, etc.
Our Holistic care environment emphasizes both quality of care and quality of life. Our goal is to offer a homelike holistic and spiritual environment that’s conducive to healing and longevity.
We provide 24-hour care with a very low staff to resident ratio which ensures that each resident receives the individual care and attention they deserve.
Rates
are charged per month. The basic monthly charge includes: three meals per day, utilities, housekeeping, laundry services, activities, and 24-hour supervision. There are two levels of care. The Care level charges will be determined after the resident’s needs have been assessed by the owner or operator.
Monthly basic care fee
$3,750
(6 months or longer)
See above what’s included in basic monthly fee.
Increase Level of care Fee
$1,500
(per month)
(Medication care, toileting, bathing, non- ambulatory, Special meals, insomnia, wanderer for examples)
Ancillary Services is paid on a as needed basis and amount is consisted with out of facility services. For example, Occupational, physical therapy, mental health services are paid to the agencies hired.
P & I (Personals and Incidentals) - Average amount is
$250
(per month)
The monthly amount depends on the resident or family’s discretion. This money is used by the facility to purchase any incidentals outside of Retreat Long term basic care such as hair cut or salon, manicure, pedicure, make up purchase, shaving, outings, clothing, special purchases etc.