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non-skid ceramic floor; handicap bars in bathrooms, which also have comfort-level commodes, and emergency pull cords. Each apartment is individually climate controlled and features large walk-in closets; the community also offers storage units.

The Memory Care Horizons community is a secured, brightly designed neighborhood with its own dining and sitting areas, arts and crafts studio, an oversized aquarium and private walking grounds with a covered patio that has ceiling fans and heaters, allowing residents and families to enjoy the outdoors during all seasons.

Because Memory Care Horizons faces the front of the building, residents can enjoy seeing activity outside from windows in the Horizons living room and the oversized floor-to-ceiling window in the Horizons dining area. Daily views can include anything from fire engines leaving Station 17 across the street to watching the C130 airplanes flying over daily from Dobbins Air Reserve Base and Lockheed Martin. Safety features include numerous oversized windows and wide hallways with aesthetically pleasing railings for residents to use in the common areas. Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) has been installed in all common areas for purified air. GPS uses needlepoint bipolar ionization to purify indoor air by eliminating airborne particles, odors and pathogens. GPS delivers clean indoor air that is safe and healthy, eliminating ozone and other harmful byproducts.

A Collaborative Environment

Each member of management and the staff is cross-trained and works with others to understand every role in the community. Careful attention is paid to the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 updates, the Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s associations, and the most updated state regulations and standards.

Intergenerational programming is another focus. Partnerships with the Boy Scouts of America and local schools, including preschoolers through college students, foster relationships between residents and community members. Opportunities are created for grandchildren of residents, and children of staff members, to enjoy activities with the residents.

The Oaks at West Cobb will have a Google-registered Little Free Blue Library out front, filled with children’s books for the youngsters to share with residents. Donations come from local businesses and partners; each book will have a sticker acknowledging the donor.

“We embrace a philosophy that care is a collaborative partnership where caregivers and care receivers are described as care partners,” said Andrew Greeson, director of operations. “Each is an active participant in the balance of giving and receiving care or helping others to grow. Our goal is to enhance each resident’s well-being by eliminating the three plagues associated with growing older: loneliness, helplessness and boredom. We try to combat each of these through opportunities for companionship and relationships, activities that not only are enjoyable, but provide purpose, or that provide moments to help others, and by giving meaning to different parts of each resident’s day.”

The owners and staff of Oaks at West Cobb look forward to being part of the West Cobb community, according to Executive Director Karen Cabral, and serving all families through faith, knowledge, compassion and love.

3292 Ernest W. Barrett Parkway N.W. 470-531-5940

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