Here at New Perspective Senior Living, our highest priority is to ensure that each of our residents are treated with dignity and respected as individuals. Learning more about their unique histories, desires, and interests puts us in the best position to provide the care, attention and services that meet their needs.
My wife Sherry and I began this enterprise with a very simple idea: create a "new perspective" on how to provide a unique, caring environment for our seniors. We envisioned a culture where each and every one of us helps our guests live purposefully one day at a time in their new home. It is our desire to create an atmosphere where we all – residents and those who serve them – enjoy living, working and spending time.
Our passion began when we invited my mother-in-law, Betty, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, to live with us. Over the seven years that Betty was with us, we learned to find personal ways to keep her secure, yet socially involved and feeling like she was home – and not just visiting – as we worked to protect her dignity even as her condition advanced. Eventually those concepts became our watchwords – and our Mission Statement:
To provide personalized assistance in a secure, social, home-like environment while helping seniors preserve their independence and age with dignity.
From Betty we learned five things which I believe all of our residents really want from us:
These ideas have, in turn, become our company Values: Integrity, Safety, Passion, Caring and Fun. The most important lesson we learned while Betty was with us was to show how we cared – to value her each and every day.
"The greatest need of human beings is to be valued." (William James)
During our daily business activities we many times asked ourselves: "What would we do for Betty?" It was from answering this question that we developed our Guiding Principles of Service – which is really where the rubber meets the road for each of us here at New Perspective:
We take PRIDE in enhancing our residents' quality of life as we:
Provide for the Whole Person: Body, Mind and Spirit
Respect Individuality and Personal History
Initiate Activities that Enrich the Resident Experience
Develop Relationships between Staff, Residents, Family and Friends
Encourage Independence in a Beautiful, Secure Setting
The years spent caring for Betty in our home have given us our vision – our "New Perspective" – on caring for the seniors who live with us in all of our Lighthouse Communities!
Todd Novaczyk, Founder, CEO