Care Homes for Dementia in Mattapan, MA
Dementia Care Facilities in Mattapan, MA
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AlzheimersNet is your comprehensive guide to memory care in Mattapan, MA. Memory care facilities provide housing and care for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. Memory care empowers seniors who have memory loss to stay as active and engaged as possible, while living in a dignified, comfortable and supervised setting. Our local Senior Living Advisors are expert in dementia care in Mattapan, MA and surrounding areas. After an initial assessment, your advisor will prepare a list of memory care facilities that most closely match your loved one's unique imperatives for care and living preferences, as well as your family's budget.
Memory Care Costs in Mattapan, MA
Price varies widely depending on location, care required, size of the resident's living space and the level of luxury at the community. The price of memory care in Mattapan ranges from $ to $ per month, with an average cost of $.
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Facts about Mattapan
Mattapan is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Historically a section of neighboring Dorchester, Mattapan became a part of Boston when Dorchester was annexed in 1870. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480. Like other neighborhoods of the late 19th and early 20th century, Mattapan developed, residentially and commercially, as the railroads and streetcars made downtown Boston increasingly accessible. Predominantly residential, Mattapan is a mix of public housing, small apartment buildings, single-family houses, and two- and three-family houses (known locally as “Three-Deckers” or “Triple-Deckers”). Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square, where Blue Hill Avenue, River Street, and Cummins Highway meet, are the commercial heart of the neighborhood, home to banks, law offices, restaurants, and retail shops. The new Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public library opened 2009, at a cost of more than $4 million. Mattapan has a large portion of green space within the neighborhood. The Harambee Park, the Franklin Zoo, the Boston Nature Zoo Center and Wildlife Sanctuary, and historic Forest Hill Cemetery can all be considered green space within the neighborhood of Mattapan. Mattapan’s demographics are diverse, with a large population of Haitians, Caribbean immigrants, and African Americans.Mattapan is claimed as the original Native American name for the Dorchester area, though accounts vary whether the phrase meant “a good place to be,” or “a good place to sit” or “an evil, spread about place.”
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