All-inclusive memory care for loved ones living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, at three secured communities in Grants Pass and Medford.
Updated
Grants Pass
1room open
View Community Kinsington PlaceGrants Pass
1room open
View Community Redwood ParkMedford
3rooms open
View Community Oak GroveMemory care is residential care built for dementia and Alzheimer's: a secured community, staff trained in memory loss, and a daily routine that holds steady so your loved one is not asked to relearn it every morning.
Most families reach us once staying at home has stopped being safe, and they are deciding on short notice. Kinsington is built to make that move feel seamless, for your loved one and for you. They settle into a place that feels like theirs, and you leave every visit knowing they are in good hands. Here are four reasons families choose us.
Call (458) 226-2376Memory care in Grants Pass and Medford, Oregon.
Kinsington Place and Redwood Park serve families in Grants Pass and across Josephine County. Oak Grove serves Medford and Jackson County. Each is a secured community built for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, and each has its own room layout worth seeing before you choose.
Compare the three communitiesThe rate does not rise when care needs do.
There is one all-inclusive monthly rate and no care levels behind it, so a reassessment never reprices your loved one's care.
See how the rate holdsSomeone is on shift at 3 a.m., not just on call.
Caregivers here are trained for memory loss specifically: redirecting instead of correcting, and learning your loved one's history well enough to use it.
How we train for dementiaSavings do not have to run out first.
All three communities accept Medicaid, and there is no cap on how many residents use it. Oregon sets the rules for who qualifies, and the state's Department of Human Services explains them. If you have any other questions, book a tour or give us a call.
Medicaid rules from Oregon DHS (opens in a new tab)Almost every family who calls us says some version of the same thing: they promised they would never do this.
What they usually mean is that they are exhausted, they are frightened, and they have been doing a job that takes a full trained team, around the clock.
Moving your loved one into memory care is not a failure of love. It is often the first day in a long time that you get to go back to being their family instead of their caregiver.
Three communities, each with its own setting: sixteen private rooms on a quiet Grants Pass street, a library-and-garden layout on Dowell Road, and three courtyard cottages in Medford.
Room counts updated
Front walkway1 / 3
Grants Pass
Sixteen residents, each in a large private room of their own. If a room your loved one does not have to share matters most, start your visits here.
Front entrance1 / 4
Grants Pass
A fireplace living room, a library wall, and a piano by the window inside, with lavender beds and garden paths in the fenced side yards.
Cottage entrance1 / 3
Medford
Three cottages set around garden courtyards, where curving paths lead past raised planters to a shaded gazebo.
Much of memory care is billed in layers: a base rate, then add-ons, then care levels that step up at each reassessment. Kinsington charges one all-inclusive monthly rate, and it does not rise as your loved one's needs do.
1
monthly rate
Set by the community and the room you choose.
0
care levels
Needs are never scored to set what you pay.
0
add-on charges
A new need never becomes a new line on the bill.
5 charges on top of the base rate
Every care need included. One rate.
Five-star reviews from families and friends, posted on Google.
A tour shows you rooms. Sitting down at the table shows you everything else: how staff talk with residents, what ends up on the plate, how an ordinary afternoon actually moves. That is what you are really deciding on, and it is hard to see from a hallway.
Family and friends always eat free, so bring whoever is helping you decide and plan your visit around a meal.
Choose a community, a day, and a time that works for you.
The practical side of moving a loved one into memory care, from the first sign it may be time to the weeks after move-in day.
There is rarely one clear moment. More often it is a pattern you notice in hindsight: the stove left on, a night spent searching for the front door, a fall you only heard about days later, or medications that get taken only when you are standing there.
When staying safe depends on someone watching every hour of the day, home has stopped being enough, no matter how hard everyone is trying. A move made before a crisis is gentler on your loved one than one arranged from a hospital discharge desk.
Assisted living assumes a resident can steer their own day with some help: find the dining room, take a medication once reminded, recognize when to ask for something.
Dementia wears those skills away. When your loved one would walk out an unlocked door, forget that they already ate, or can no longer tell anyone what they need, assisted living is being asked to do a job it was not designed for. Memory care is designed for that job, and starting there can spare your loved one a second move later.
Keep it short, calm, and close to the day. A long explanation weeks ahead is often forgotten and then relived as fresh bad news, so many families give one simple, true reason on or just before move-in day, such as the doctor wanting more help close by.
You do not need their agreement to do the right thing, and you do not have to win the argument. Our staff have been through this conversation with many families and can help you plan what to say.
Yes, and we encourage it. Their own armchair, a quilt they know, photos on the wall, and the lamp they have always read by make a room feel like theirs faster than anything new could.
Tell us what you are thinking of bringing and we will help you plan around the room's size, especially in a shared room. Label clothing, and keep irreplaceable jewelry and valuables at home.
Plan on a few unsettled weeks. Asking to go home, restlessness in the late afternoon, and more confusion than usual are all common in the first month, and they tend to ease as the routine becomes familiar.
Nobody will ask you to stay away while that happens. Some residents settle faster with short, frequent visits and others with a few quiet days first, and staff will tell you honestly which way your loved one seems to be going.
Yes. There are no visiting hours to plan around, so come before work, on a lunch break, or on a Sunday afternoon with the grandchildren.
Visits do not have to be long to count. Twenty minutes over coffee, a walk around the grounds, or folding laundry together gives your loved one something familiar to hold onto.
The care changes and your loved one stays put. A reminder to dress becomes help dressing; walking with a cane becomes walking with a hand to hold. Staff adjust the care plan as those changes happen and keep you informed of each one.
The goal is for this to be the last move. Memory care is meant for every stage of dementia, including the late ones, and when the time comes, hospice comes to them here, rather than the other way around.
A move would only come up if a medical need arose that requires a skilled nursing setting, and we would talk it through with you well before anything happened.
These are the reasons most families call us, so none of them will be new to the people caring for your loved one.
Wandering is expected, and the doors and outdoor areas are secured so your loved one can walk freely without being able to leave. If a fall happens, staff check on them right away and call you. Agitation almost always has a cause, such as pain, fear, a noisy room, or feeling rushed. Staff look for that cause and redirect instead of arguing, and a hard day is never a reason to ask your loved one to leave.
No. Medicare covers hospital stays, doctor visits, and short rehabilitation stays, but not ongoing residential memory care.
Families usually pay with some combination of savings, long-term care insurance, veterans benefits, and Medicaid. Which of those fits your family is worth talking through on a tour, before the move rather than after.
