Topics: Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

Otterbein SeniorLife Neighborhoods offer long-term care in small houses with a maximum of 12 elders (residents). The person-centered approach in our small houses shifts the focus from institutional care, which you commonly see in traditional nursing homes, to individual elder interests, preferences, and needs. 

Topics: Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

If you’re currently looking for long-term or post-acute care for yourself or a loved one, you may want to consider a less traditional form of nursing home care. Green House homes, built in partnership with The Green House Project®, are transforming the institutional approach to senior care.  

Topics: Inpatient Post-Acute Care and Rehabilitation, Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

What do you think of first when you hear “skilled nursing”?

Topics: Neighborhoods, News & Events

Effective immediately, Otterbein SeniorLife will officially become a member of The Green House Project®. In 2001, nursing home reformer Dr. Bill Thomas had a radical idea. Instead of living in nursing home institutions, people should be living in real homes. That vision was officially birthed by Mississippi Methodist Senior Services in 2003.

Topics: Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

Have you ever heard a senior in a nursing home describe themself as “spoiled” by their caregivers? How about expressing thankfulness for their lifestyle and surroundings? Sounds out of the ordinary, right? For Geraldine T., an elder living at Otterbein New Albany SeniorLife Neighborhood, it’s 100% true. To hear it in her own words, just… Read more »

Topics: Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

Non-institutional, freedom, privacy, choices ― these are all words that are not typically used to describe a nursing home. But Otterbein SeniorLife Neighborhoods are not nursing homes; they’re known as small house neighborhoods.

Topics: Neighborhoods, Skilled Nursing

If you’re looking for skilled nursing care or post-acute rehabilitation for yourself or a loved one, there are a lot of factors to consider, including the proximity of the skilled nursing center to a hospital or medical center.