Ellen's Home South

Description of Ellen's Home South located in Germantown, Wisconsin

At Ellen's Home South, we offer a host of community features. Residents can participate in frequent off-site experiences and trips. Free resident parking is available at our location.

Dining Options

We provide residents with meals throughout the day. We offer specified meal options such as vegetarian food.

On-Site Activities

Residents can exercise their physical and mental well-being with specially curated on-site activities.

Outdoor Common Areas

Outdoor common areas are designed with accessibility, flow, and movement in mind.

Indoor Common Areas

Indoor common areas are a nice, quiet place to enjoy the company of fellow occupants or to just relax.

Languages Spoken at Ellen's Home South

Staff members who speak Spanish are employed by the community.

Community Attributes at Ellen's Home South

Living Options and Amenities

We offer wheelchair accessible units. Ground floor units are available. To accommodate our residents, we are fully integrated with WanderGuard capability. Resident units featuring wheelchair accessible showers are available.

Premium Amenities at Ellen's Home South

Transportation

We provide complimentary transportation services at our community. All of our residents have access to our transportation services at a reasonable cost.

Personal Services

We have a beautician conveniently located on-site - residents can easily receive beauty treatments for all occasions. We offer devotional services on-site, so residents can practice or worship in the privacy of our community. Offsite devotional services are offered in the nearby area.

Medical Care Services

Our 24-hour awake staff is available to assist your loved one in fulfilling time-sensitive needs, should they arise. All services are delivered by licensed practitioners who are on staff 24/7. There are licensed nurses on-site to administer injections when needed. Our community staff includes registered nurses. This facility is not licensed by the state to offer medication dispensing services, however, residents are supported in their self-medication efforts as much as possible. We recruit first-class visiting podiatrists whose job it is to ensure our residents are happy, fit, and mobile. Regular visits from specialized occupational therapists are available to residents to aid development, recovery, improvements, and maintenance of skills needed for daily living. Speech therapy services are provided by trained and certified speech-pathologists. A visiting nurse is available to all residents. Our residents may schedule reminders for medication and care activities. On-site hospice care is provided. Our community offers respite care - a short-term stay at a senior living community - perfect for those recovering from a hospital visit, the interim during which a caregiver takes an extended vacation, or simply to experience a senior living trial period. This community provides administered injections and licensed nurses are onsite to administer injections when needed. We can administer a sliding scale program to monitor insulin levels via glucose tests, and adjust medications based on the results. Staff members are versed in the usage of the Hoyer Lift for total transfers. Services include incontinence care for bladder-related and bowel-related symptoms. Services for residents with Disorientation/Lack of Awareness issues ensure residents are well-directed (using queuing, for instance) and supported in a healthy lifestyle - nobody falls between the cracks. The facility supports outdoor leisure hours. Alzheimer's and dementia may encourage wandering as a means of coping with anxiety. Our facility utilizes a locked and secured perimeter to ensure the safety of our residents.

What to expect at Ellen's Home South

Community Certifications

Our community is licensed for 23 residents. The building was built in 2013. We accept residents from the age of 50 and above.