Highgate Senior Living in Yakima, Washington is a handsome manor house tucked into a quiet residential neighborhood but conveniently located near shopping, doctors, public library, and banks.   At Highgate Yakima, we specialize in providing the highest quality of Assisted Living for older adults as well as separate and secure memory care for those affected with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. 

Tucked into a quiet residential neighborhood, when you walk into Highgate you get the feeling you are walking into a cozy county inn but with the added benefit of personal care services. 

Both our building design and our Personal Lifestyle Program are intended to provide, independence, quality of life, and instill a personal feeling of self-worth and security to an older adult needing assistance.

Innovative Design
The Manor at Highgate is a smaller apartment community. Our smaller size is warm and welcoming with beautiful landscaped gardens and courtyards.  Due to the cozy size of our community, it is easier for our residents to independently find their way around the building for meals and activities…and to meet and interact with other residents.  Our residents are encouraged to spend much of their time in the common areas of our community as most research indicates that socialization is the most important key in slowing down decline due to aging.

At Highgate, we provide an array of areas in our building to interest and delight residents and families alike…

• A luxurious Spa where a resident can be pampered with a massage or spa bath
• A beautiful and tranquil aquarium  which will soothe an anxious resident
• Our bird aviary, where our residents keep track of our lovebirds and their babies
• A Gardening and Potting room for those with - and those without a green thumb
• Cozy and private fireplace nooks where a resident can curl up
• Game rooms to keep minds challenged
• Arts and crafts areas
• Television rooms
• A beautifully appointed grand dining room

Of course, our residents can always be pampered in the lovely Highgate Beauty / Barber Shop.
 

Specialized Assisted Living Environment
Highgate offers a unique  Program…called Life Enhancement that is specifically designed to create a day...every day...for the older adult. It is due to our unique programming that an aging adult needing assistance will generally thrive in our elegant, non-institutional, and less restricted environment. At Highgate the every day life of a resident is enhanced and structured with:

• Active Participation in familiar music activities
• Opportunity and encouragement to complete mentally challenging tasks
• Aromatherapy and spa events designed to rejuvenate or relax depending on the need
• Baking and cooking- to trigger fond memories
• Woodworking and crafts to keep the creative part of the mind alive
• Gardening, potting, and flower arranging
• Daily exercise class as well as walking and dancing

Our Programming is Based on Current Research
Research has demonstrated that aging adults who socialize and participate in   these types of events will stay vital longer… and decline much more slowly… than their peer who is isolated and living alone.  

Senior Living Programming & Activities
 

Meals and Hydration  
At Highgate, our residents are treated like royalty in our finely appointed dining room.  They are presented with choices at all three meals from which they are welcome to select their favorite “home-style” cuisine.   At Highgate, we know that mealtime is an important part of the day…both socially and nutritionally.  

Additionally, we understand that dehydration is the underlying cause of 90% of hospitalizations for older adults…so we provide plenty of opportunity for our residents to keep hydrated by providing a beverage bar as well as always offering a favorite beverage during or after each hourly activity.

The Highgate Team
At Highgate, we believe our most important ingredient is our staff.  From our nursing department, housekeeping, maintenance, activities, and our dietary department we pride ourselves in hiring exceptionally caring people who have chosen to provide loving care to our residents.   Highgate is unique in the fact that we employ professional individuals and then we highly train them in the “stages of decline” due to aging. Therefore residents, families, and staff have the best resources available when problems arise.
 
We spend our lives searching for comfort, security, and a feeling of belonging. For an aging adult, these basic human needs are no less important. Actually, At Highgate Senior Living, we believe they are more so. Each resident’s individual capabilities are encouraged, their inabilities understood, no matter what the level of care required. They are encouraged to enjoy each and every day to the fullest extent of their abilities - with independence, privacy, friendship, dignity and love.  At Highgate, our goal is to be known in the community we serve as:  
                  

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