Millennium Memory Care at Monroe

Millennium Memory Care at Monroe is an assisted living community in Monroe, New Jersey, providing individualized care for residents with Alzheimer's disease and other memory care needs. The community specializes in challenging and difficult behavioral dementia cases that are typically rejected by most other facilities. Its services include 24-hour supervision and care, a geriatric nurse practitioner on staff, an on-call nurse 24 hours a day, all private rooms, a safe medication administration program, and customized Alzheimer's and dementia care plans. Residents have access to engaging and meaningful activities, imitation shopping excursions, fish tanks, karaoke, yoga classes, aromatherapy and pet therapy, many outdoor spaces with wandering paths, three homemade meals daily with unlimited snacks and beverages, special diets, a beauty salon and barber shop, and housekeeping and laundry service. The community holds a rating of 4.60.

Care is developed around the abilities of each resident rather than their inabilities, building on each person's uniqueness and structuring support so residents use their capabilities to the fullest extent. The approach is family focused, with a professional care team that supports families through the changes a loved one is going through, and the all-inclusive rate includes in-house speakers, workshops, and education on topics of concern. Caregivers are experts in dementia care, and staff turnover is very low, with employees who have been with the organization for over 10 years. Staff are trained to handle combative behavior by identifying what caused it, maintaining composure, listening and engaging with the resident, avoiding physical contact that can trigger escalation, and attending to the safety of residents while working to decrease the frequency, intensity, and duration of behavioral problems. The Director, Galina Markovich, has 25 years of practice with geriatric populations suffering from dementia.

The community sits on Buckelew Avenue, about a tenth of a mile from Pergola Avenue and Buckelew Avenue, a short distance from Lake Manalapan and Thompson Park Zoo, both roughly a third to four tenths of a mile away. Jamesburg Borough Hall and Grace M Breckwedel Middle School are each about half a mile from the location.

Millennium Memory Care at Monroe is known for the positive rating it has earned from the customers who have reviewed it, and for a dementia care program built to serve residents whose behavioral needs other facilities decline to take on.