Memory Care Tag

Schooner Estates expands with memory care home

Maine's memory care community continues to grow with the completion of Schooner Estates' Memory Care Home. Designed by Gawron Turgeon Architects, P.C. (GTA), this 48,000 square foot building is situated on eight acres of Schooner Estates' Auburn, Maine campus. This state-of-the-art facility features 66 units organized into three, 22-bed neighborhoods. This community-style design facilitates and enhances daily life for people living with memory impairment. Special considerations include a circadian lighting system to help reinforce natural light/dark signals, which in turn regulates...

Maine Home and Design magazine features The Mooring at the Downs

Maine Home and Design has featured The Mooring at the Downs in its annual interiors issue. The issue, which includes both commercial and residential properties, showcases the best interior design projects throughout the state of Maine. The article focuses on the expansive laundry room at The Mooring at the Downs. In creating this space, we worked closely with our client, Lynne Peel, to blend coastal elegance with optimal functionality. To do this, we placed cool-toned cabinets against a crisp white tile...

Introducing The Mooring at the Downs

Building on the success of The Mooring on Foreside, The Mooring at the Downs brings the latest innovations in memory care to Scarborough, Maine. Part of The Downs, an up-and-coming, 524-acre mixed-use community, The Mooring at the Downs houses 12 private rooms in a small-house model to enhance connectedness and a sense of community for residents. The home is nestled into the residential neighborhood at The Downs, providing housemates with the opportunity to spend time outside walking through the village,...

Groundbreaking ceremony at Maine Veterans Home Augusta

Small house-style memory care at Maine Veterans’ Homes – Augusta

Following the official groundbreaking on the new Maine Veterans’ Homes – Augusta facility, work on the small house memory care model is now underway. The new home, scheduled for completion in 2021, will offer assisted living, long term care and memory care to Maine’s veterans and eligible family members. “The small house model that MVH is embracing for our veterans is really a unique opportunity,” said Deb Fournier, chief operations officer of Maine Veterans’ Homes. “It will be the first of...

The Mooring on Foreside - Small house concept

News about our award-winning memory care design

The Mooring on Foreside—a project that is dear to us for so many reasons—receives a great write-up in Senior Living News. The Mooring's founder and principle, Lynn Peel, had a strong vision that this would be a memory care home with a difference; that it would look and feel like a real home with a small footprint and an intimate setting, in turn enabling individualized care for each and every resident. Rebecca Dillon was Gawron Turgeon's lead architect for this project, and...