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Amberleigh Assisted Living and Memory Care Under One Roof CONTRIBUTED BY AMBERLEIGH RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
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mberleigh recently expanded offerings of services for seniors in Williamsville to offer memory care along with assisted living. Since 1988, Amberleigh Retirement Community, located at 2330 Maple Road near Transit Road in Williamsville, has served as a premier independent retirement community in Western New York, offering one- and twobedroom apartments with amenities for their residents fifty-five years and older. As the population ages and become more prominent to meet people live longer, assisted living the needs of our aging Western New and memory care communities have York populace. With that in mind,
Residents Sarafina Meehan and Donal Strobl share time with director Margaret Kleinmann in the new library and game lounge in the assisted living facility. Photo by kc kratt
Capital Senior Living, the Dallasbased company that manages Amberleigh, made the decision to expand the offerings of services they provide at Amberleigh. Under the leadership of their executive director, Margaret Kleinmann, who has more than thirty years of dedication to geriatrics, levels of care, including enhanced assisted living and memory care will be added to residents’ Independent apartments. Amberleigh engaged in a major renovation of one quarter of its existing building, which will open in the next few weeks. This is a trend that Capital Senior Living has adopted for the majority of their independent communities 18
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across the United States, and many of its communities have already undergone this renovation with much success. “This project was a complete labor of love,” says Kleinmann. “We could not have done this project without the help of Picone Construction, Foit-Albert Architects, and the Amherst Industrial Development Agency. Capital Senior Living and I are most appreciative for their support and talents.” The employees working in the new assisted living and memory care areas were all hand selected by Kleinmann herself, and will go through extensive training with her team of professionals to meet and exceed all of the Department of