8 Best Memory Care Facilities in Lubbock, TX

Isle at Raider Ranch offers a resident-centered environment and a full continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living and memory care. It made our best-of list because its care staff receives monthly training courses and ongoing dementia care training from its nursing staff. The memory care team provides comprehensive 24-hour support to ensure safety and security and creates meaningful activities to help residents lead more fulfilling lives. The team also intervenes to address problem behaviors, such as sundowning, wandering and combativeness, without using drugs. Residents have spacious, secure private or semiprivate one-bedroom or two-bedroom memory care apartments. They also have access to restaurant-style dining in a family-style dining room and intimate social spaces designed to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere.

We included Carillon Senior Living on our best-of list because it’s the first facility in Texas to receive I’m Still Here Center of Excellence designation. Staff uses evidence-based training programs to create an uplifting environment for residents with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Parallel programming helps residents and their families reconnect through music, poetry, film and art. Its Never 2 Late (iN2L)person-centered technology features hundreds of web-based computer applications for engagement, recreation and social connections. Caregivers effectively manage anxiety, agitation, aggression and apathy through meaningful communication to reduce the need for pharmacological intervention. All programming is focused on providing opportunities for true engagement and increased quality of life.

The Legacy at South Plains offers a specially crafted memory care program called Connections that supports every aspect of life for its residents. Through Connections, the facility's highly trained memory care team helps residents maintain their mental acuity, physical well-being and connections with family and community members. Its seven pillars of memory care include true choice-based living, personalized care and immersive experiences. Two additional pillars include thoughtful dining with a calming atmosphere to help reduce anxiety and innovative environments to provide as much freedom and mobility as possible to memory care residents. The final two pillars are a collaborative team approach and family partnerships to help residents interact and engage within the community safely.

Brookdale Monterey made our list for being a J.D. Power award winner, tying for number one in customer satisfaction among assisted living and memory care communities in 2022. It created its exclusive brand of dementia care, Clare Bridge, over 30 years ago to provide a purposeful program for the mid to late stages of dementia. It also offers Clare Bridge Solace for advanced dementia. Brookdale Monterey is centrally located, with hospitals and several doctors’ offices less than five minutes away, and it has trained staff on-site 24/7. It uses industry-leading security measures for its safety-first mentality, including way-finding cues and secured entrances. The peaceful, homelike setting, with small dining rooms and preselected seating, provides a stable, comforting environment where residents can thrive.

BeeHive Assisted Living is a senior living home offering memory care for aging adults with dementia. It purposely keeps its home smaller to provide residents more access to personal care from professional, skilled caregivers. To ensure residents' unique needs are met, the staff assesses each of them when they join the community and regularly thereafter to ascertain if their needs have changed. Residents receive dietician-approved meals and daily housekeeping and laundry services to provide a safe, clean living environment. Memory care residents can enjoy access to a secure outdoor courtyard, a hair and nail salon and life-enrichment activities. Larger rooms are available for couples wishing to remain living together.

Wilshire Place Senior Living offers assisted living, independent living and memory care to aging adults who need assistance or have health issues that make it unsafe for them to live by themselves. The community sits on 68 acres, with 72 senior living apartments that include basic housekeeping and regular laundry service. Staff members offer daily memory care programming that provides activities and events specially designed to stimulate residents physically, socially, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually and environmentally. Activities available to residents include chair aerobics, pet visits, prayer groups, brainteasers, conversation circles and meditation in the garden. Residents also have access to personal care, including escorts to and from meals and activities, medication management and meal assistance in a safe, tranquil community.

We included family-owned-and-operated Fountain Hills Assisted Living & Memory Care on our list because its low resident-to-caregiver ratio allows it to give its residents specialized care and attention more easily. Because it doesn’t separate memory care residents from assisted living residents, the facility is able to offer a family-type home filled with diverse needs and personalities. Its caregivers are specially trained to care for residents with memory impairments and understand that memory loss impacts everyone differently. Each resident receives a personalized memory care plan and a room featuring a beautiful view and a private bathroom. The memory care home also has surveillance cameras in all public spaces and advanced safety features, including magnetic locks on doors and gates to prevent wandering.

Located 37 miles west of Lubbock, BeeHive Homes of Levelland offers assisted living, memory care and respite care. Its memory care services focus on accommodating aging adults affected by memory loss and dementia. BeeHive’s staff recognizes that individuals seeking memory and dementia care have different needs, so they assess new residents upon joining the community and then regularly, as requirements may change. The smaller community allows caregivers to provide residents with greater access to personal care. The caring, comfortable environment includes private rooms with private showers and delicious home-cooked meals. Daily housekeeping and laundry services ensure clean living spaces, and 24-hour staffing provides peace of mind. A consulting nurse is available 24/7, with home health ordered for those needing nursing services.