Prairie Elder Homes

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11865 W 155th Terrace Overland Park, KS 66221

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Prairie Elder Homes

Prairie Elder Homes is a memory care provider in Overland Park, KS. The staff at Prairie Elder Homes provide supervision and are able to remind residents to attend to activities of daily living such as grooming and toileting. Staff are on service 24 hours a day. There are activities appropriate for seniors with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia that help keep residents active and engaged. It is a secured property. Residents who are prone to wandering can be accepted. Prairie Elder Homes may be able to accommodate residents who are physically aggressive. The community may also be able to accept residents who exhibit bizarre or difficult behaviors. At Prairie Elder Homes, you can rest assured because a nurse is on staff and a doctor is on call.

Features at a glance

Handles Aggressive Behavior
Handles Exit Seeking
Free Standing Community
Secured Community
Can Administer Medications
Reminders And Monitoring
Visiting Nurse
Wheelchair Accessibility
Behavioral Care

Staffing

Nurses on Staff
Doctor on Call
24-Hour Awake Staff
Visiting Nurse
Visiting Podiatrist
Visiting Physical Therapist
Visiting Occupational Therapist
Visiting Speech Therapist

Facility Care Level

Care Level	Percentage
Medium Care	Medium Care May be able to manage some activities but requires assistance and supervision with activities of daily living; may require cueing or supervision; requires assistance with provision of basic needs, i.e. medications, nutrition, hygiene, housekeeping, mobility, etc.

Additional Services

Care available for behavioral problems/symptoms

This community can accept residents who are an elopement risk. This community can accept residents who act out physically.

Diabetic Care

Diabetic residents must be able to manage their own care, including blood sugar tests and insulin injections. The community can help residents monitor their blood sugar but cannot give insulin injections. This community can administer insulin injections and blood sugar tests, although are it is not necessarily able to offer sliding scale therapy. This community offers diabetes care and can offer insulin injections, including sliding scale therapy.

Incontinence Care

Incontinent residents must be able to manage incontinence themselves. This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom. This community can care for residents with bowel incontinence. This community can care for residents with bladder incontinence.

Memory Care Offered

This community employs technology to prevent residents from wandering and becoming lost, for example bracelets that will ring an alarm if the resident leaves the community. The memory care area of this community is secured to protect the safety of residents who wander. This community's memory care section can accept residents with major behavior issues. The community's memory care area was purpose built to care for residents with Alzheimer's and dementia. The community's memory care section is in its own building.

Non Ambulatory Care

This community can provide standby assistance for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair. This community can provide a 1 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair. This community can provide a 2 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair. This community is equipped to use mechanical lifts transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.

Other Services

This community is provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.