At Benchmark Lifestyles we take living personally. That's why we offer our seniors a variety of living arrangements, amenities, services, meal plans, social activities and care. It's a broad range of options that help seniors enjoy a full life — all on their own terms.

Our broad range of services, care and lifestyle options offer seniors choices and allow them to live life on their terms.

Independent Living
At a Benchmark independent living residence, seniors enjoy an active and more independent lifestyle without the worry of household maintenance.

Assisted Living
Our assisted living communities provide just the right amount of support and care. This includes assistance with daily activities, such as bathing, personal hygiene and medication assistance.

Over the past 30 years we have been exploring and building new models of living and providing health and human services for this new century. Led by compassion and human and economic foresight (knowing that the elderly do not thrive in a nursing home setting), we are applying successful, common sense approaches to living and caring for elders to create a long term care community where elders choose to live their lives with staff who enjoy "assisting" them.

Our communities are staffed with familiar caregivers who are there to help their community residents as they live lives of meaning, value and joy (as much as they are able). They have private spaces and family spaces and a chance to continue to live life with some measure of independence and responsibility. Our community provides the best personal, health and medical services any community member, however frail, will need.

We are most happy in those communities that create a healthy climate. Where we are respected, where we have the opportunity to grow and learn and we have choices in our pursuit of happiness. We could set goals and achieve them, could achieve pleasure and satisfaction in daily life, and we are genuinely and highly involved in the creation and maintenance of our community.

A small community – a handful of residents, a handful of staff, a few family members and volunteers. Within this smaller group, we could all be highly involved and genuinely responsive to the needs of community.  Together we could plan for daily life that includes daily pleasures for our elders, genuine participation and satisfaction of staff, and more enjoyable involvement from family. These satisfying routines would weave together with memorable moments and meaningful social occasions, all indicators of a healthy community.

We are undertaking this change by creating many such communities within our walls. We have broken the process down into four components, each of which we feel is essential to long-term success.

In re-orienting our organization to focus on community, it is important to be just as supportive to the caregivers as to the receivers of care. This is best accomplished by moving leadership as close to the elder as possible, following the proved models of self-directed work teams and cross-trained workers (multi-task). When we eliminate departmental barriers, flatten the organizational chart, give workers and teams permanent assignments, we find that leaders will emerge. Leaders from the heart, not leaders by title, and these are the leaders that will connect with individuals. These connections give our elders feelings of security, and the caregivers feelings of personal responsibility and fulfillment.

“Life is made more enjoyable by experiencing personal daily pleasures..”

Quality of life truly results from a commitment to person-centered care where individuals experience autonomy, the dignity of choice, the dignity of risk and respect in their daily lives. Life is made more enjoyable by experiencing those personal daily pleasures, things that are important to each of us, things that we look forward to throughout the day, every day, in homelike surroundings. Empowered to assert their rights and preferences, to expect dignity in their care and relationships with health care professionals, individuals are encouraged to choose their daily care and services from staff who place supreme value on listening to the resident’s preferences while offering professional advice and education on the risks and benefits of residents choices.