December 2004 Rosewood at Laurel Lake Construction Completed for new Dementia Care Assisted Living Rosewood is a new fourteen-bed dementia specific assisted living residence. It is part of Laurel Lake, a continuing care retirement community in Hudson, Ohio. The campus is located on a 150-acre wooded site with three lakes. Designed as a small-scale residential setting, Rosewood provides residents and staff with a truly “home-like” living environment. This small unit permits residents to live as close as possible to normal life and creates an environment where staff can provide truly person centered care. The heart of Rosewood is a family-scaled kitchen area that is accessible to residents. This allows flexible dining and snacking as well as encourages resident participation in meal preparation, distribution and clean-up. The kitchen adjoins a small dining room with a table-height bar for informal meals and activities. Other common areas include a resident living room with indirect cove lighting and a built-in entertainment center with display shelving. A sunroom sitting area opens to a secure courtyard allowing safe access to the outdoors. Each resident room is outfitted with a display shelf with hanging pegs to allow personalized decoration. Each resident bathroom has a wheel-in shower, water closet and vanity. A major goal of the project was to create a separate building that was comparable in scale and appearance to the existing independent living villas. Though somewhat larger, the forms, massing and detailing of the Rosewood building allows it to sensitively blend in with the villas. A walkway connects Rosewood to the adjacent campus buildings for food service, housekeeping, maintenance and other resident amenities.