The Heritage, Southfield

With an outstanding reputation in our field, we currently operate more than 548 senior living and retirement communities across the nation. Each day, more than 32,000 Brookdale associates serve over 52,000 residents in a variety of settings.

With vision, commitment and keen attention to the details that make life special, Brookdale Senior Living has emerged as a national brand of choice for exceptional senior living. As testimony to our success, Brookdale communities consistently generate high resident satisfaction ratings, demonstrating our pride, commitment to quality, and service excellence.

At Brookdale assisted living and memory care residences, we feel a person’s ability to choose how they live is essential to their well-being. While some people are able to live at home all their lives, others may need more help managing daily living tasks. Since 1981, Brookdale has been committed to providing an exceptional living experience through properties that are designed, purpose-built, and operated to provide the highest-quality service, care, and living accommodations for our residents. We approach every one of our residents with the same goal: to provide personalized care and service to improve quality of life, allowing residents to age with dignity and independence.

Brookdale's Life Enrichment Program is designed to enhance the quality of life of older adults through life skills, continuing education, spirituality, wellness programs, fitness, recreation, cultural programs, art, music, and social events. Our programming offers each resident the opportunity to find happiness and satisfaction in their daily lives, in an environment that supports them as an individual. Life Enrichment, unlike other “activity programs,” is a continual process that encompasses everything a resident does. If a resident enjoys reading, music, gardening, or just about anything else, we find ways to incorporate those activities into their daily lives.

Brookdale has been taking care of older adults for over 20 years, and is the nation’s leading provider of assisted living residences for the physically frail elderly and the nation’s largest operator of freestanding residences for individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease or other forms of memory loss.

An integral component of our Life Enrichment Program is Life Skills. The Life Skills philosophy is based on the belief that a resident’s daily experiences should reflect, as much as possible, that individual’s preferred lifestyle while providing a sense of usefulness, pleasure, and as normal a level of functioning as possible. The amount of satisfaction an individual receives from doing the things that make up each day goes a long way to determining their overall satisfaction with life. Our Life Enrichment Program supports that concept because it maximizes independence while focusing on the abilities and preferences that enhance the quality of life of the resident.

Preserving each resident’s sense of individuality is a key component to maintaining and improving quality of life. Our staff continually works to balance each resident’s care plan with his or her individual needs and preferences, which is vital to quality of life and important in maintaining positive self-esteem.

Brookdale Senior Living's 2008 Celebrations Dance

7.View highlights from Brookdale Senior Livings 2008 Optimum Life Celebrations Dance themed Music of Your Life. Our senior living residents top off the 2008 Celebrations program with a dance at the House of Blues. To learn more about out Optimum Life Celebrations program, visit http://www.brookdaleliving.com/Celebrations.aspx today!

Movement is Medicine by Dr. Kevin O'Neil (Brookdale Senior Living)

9.Brookdale Senior Livings Dr. Kevin ONeil created Movement is Medicine, a program to promote wellness in seniors. The program encourages individual activity to meet the guidelines of 30 minutes of moderate daily activity established by the American Heart Association and American College of Sports Medicine. To learn more about our senior living residences and the Movement is Medicine program, visit http://www.brookdaleliving.com today!