Peabody Home is an independent, not for profit home with multiple “levels” of care. What this means to those living here is there is a mixture of people at different stages of aging. Not everyone needs full nursing care but if they do need it the staff is here. If someone is looking for medication administration, housekeeping, laundry and delicious food, they can find it here. If someone is lonely and tired of watching TV all day, they will find caring, interesting company and activities here at Peabody Home.

What Peabody Home staff does well is build relationships with the elder and their family. All Staff, no matter what their primary service area is, know that the Resident is who we are here for. We are here to help build on the strengths of the resident, minimize the weaknesses they are dealing with and work together to provide a sense of purposefulness and hope to the aging person. Peabody Home is not “a step down” from the hospital. We can and do provide full nursing care with licensed Nurses. We can care for people who choose to have a feeding tube or choose to elect Hospice.

We encourage the resident and family to tell us what they would like for their care, when they would like to get up, when they would like to bathe and when they would like to socialize. To summarize, Peabody Home is not the institutional care of yesteryear but a progressive, vibrant community.