In Norfolk, VA, Commonwealth Senior Living at Ballentine works across assisted living, respite care, and memory care. Assisted living is the help a resident gets with bathing, with dressing, and with the medication routine.
The memory care level exists for the wandering risk that dementia can bring, and it meets that risk with a secured setting and somebody keeping watch. Respite care gives a family caregiver a short stay to use when travel or a recovery of their own gets in the way.
Three levels on one license mean the second and the third are already here when the first stops covering what a resident needs. Eighty-eight beds are what the license permits.
Monthly rates open at $4,050. Pets are allowed, which keeps an animal in the picture after a move. Dining shows up among the amenities, and daily activities, trips, and social programs fill the calendar.
At 43, the area is car-dependent, so getting to most places takes a vehicle. The administrator on record is Patrice Cherry.




















