At Prairie Hills Des Moines, you’ll find the perfect combination of comfort, care, and an active lifestyle. Our quaint assisted living community is tucked away in a quiet, peaceful neighborhood in Southeast Des Moines. Our community offers an array of amenities including elegantly designed common areas for gatherings, wonderful residents, and the most caring and dedicated staff you’ll find. line¶ Assisted living is a senior living option that provides individuals with the ability to live their lives the way they want, with trained support always nearby. At Dial Senior Living, the services we offer can range from helping remind residents to take medications daily to offering assistance with the activities of daily life like bathing and getting dressed. line¶ What separates our assisted living communities from other options starts with our environment. Seniors in need of assistance have the help they need when they need it. Better yet, our apartment floor plans include large, private bathrooms and spacious kitchenette areas to allow anyone to move freely and independently when they want. line¶ Our assisted living communities are thoughtfully designed to provide incredible comfort, high quality services, and beautiful surroundings. We can assure you that you’ll enjoy a lifestyle that recognizes your individuality, privacy, choice, and dignity, every single day. line¶ We’ll help take away the stress you feel in wondering if your loved ones are safe when living with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, or other memory impairments. Our memory care communities provide the safe, comfortable, and engaging spaces needed to truly enjoy life’s many moments of joy. We accomplish this through specially designed programming that our incredible team members lead each day. These activities include playing games, listening to residents’ favorite music, doing crafts, and other offerings that help individuals living with memory care needs. We offer a full day of purposeful and meaningful engagement opportunities to ensure personal connections are celebrated. line¶ Memory care caters specifically to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other types of memory impairments. Your loved ones can live freely on their own, with the help of trained caregivers to keep each resident safe and comfortable every day. The memory care communities available at Dial provide 24-hour supervised care that offers incredible activities designed to keep your loved ones engaged. Living in a memory care community provides your loved ones with an incredible variety of amenities including 24-hour assistance, television and Internet, full calendar of activities, entertainment, individual programs, housekeeping and laundry services, fine dining, personal care plans, and private bathrooms.
Water, electric, expanded basic cable, and Wi-Fi included for our assisted living residents. Phone, Internet, and TV Connections available. Water, electric, expanded basic cable, Wi-Fi, television, and Internet included for our memory care residents.
Assisted living residents are provided weekly housekeeping and laundry services. Memory care residents are provided housekeeping, laundry services, and daily bed making
Our activities and programs are specifically designed to engage our residents in five areas of wellness. We focus on physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual wellness. We encourage our residents to request specific activities and events. We are always looking for new events and activities that engage our residents.
Prairie Hills provides engaging group and individual activities and outings for our assisted living residents.
Prairie Hills’ memory care residents are provided a full calendar of activities, entertainment, and individual programs including engaging group, individualized, and outdoor activities designed to maintain and enhance each resident’s retained skills, interests, and abilities.
If you choose one of our great assisted living communities, you can expect a wide array of amenities to be available to you or your loved ones.
Our assisted living apartment amenities include perfectly appointed kitchenettes with small refrigerator/freezer and microwave, large closets with ample storage, individually controlled heat and air units, smoke/fire detectors and sprinkler system, and all utilities included. Our assisted living apartments also feature large bathrooms with assistance bars, linen closets, and zero entry showers with seats.
Our assisted living services and amenities include three meals daily, 24-hour certified staff with RN oversight, emergency response system 24/7, individualized levels of personal care based on resident’s needs, medication management, engaging group and individual activities and outings, outdoor courtyard with pond and walking path, weekly housekeeping and laundry services, scheduled transportation to personal appointments, religious services, and beauty salon/barber shop for an additional fee. Additionally, our assisted living residents have full access to library, billiards room, spa, game room, sunroom, and ice cream parlor. Our wellness center offering health and wellness assessments, physician visits, therapy, and spa services are also available.
Our memory care apartment amenities include private apartments with private baths and all utilities included.
Our memory care services and amenities include three meals daily and snacks as desired, 24-hour certified and specially trained staff with RN oversight, escort to and from dining room and activities, assistance with activities of daily living (dressing, grooming, and bathing), administration of medications, cueing and reminders, beauty salon/barber shop for an additional fee, and whirlpool bath. Our memory care residents also receive housekeeping, laundry services, and daily bed making as well as full access to library, chapel, and fitness area. Engaging group, individualized, and outdoor activities designed to maintain and enhance each resident’s retained skills, interests, and abilities are also offered.
We are proud to feature the I’M STILL HERE® approach in our memory care program. Through engagement, the I’m Still Here™ approach has been shown to reduce the common symptoms associated with dementia such as anxiety, agitation, aggression, and apathy—the 4 A’s ™—while significantly improving quality of life.
The designation as an I’m Still Here® Center of Excellence is only awarded to a few organizations each year. To achieve this certification, each organization must make a commitment to participate in a rigorous training and implementation program developed by the Hearthstone Institute. As part of this program, all of the staff working in our memory care units as well as many others throughout our community, took part in a six-month onsite program, which included extensive training in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, communication techniques, and life enrichment. This training has created a team of true Dementia Specialists here at Dial, as well as a Dementia Friendly culture throughout our organization.
LifeLoop—What if you could stay connected to your family easily and efficiently, giving them a firsthand look at your Dial experience and sharing the latest developments? Or as a Dial family member, imagine being able to stay engaged and in touch with your loved one and his or her caregivers from anywhere. LifeLoop gives you that power.
LifeLoop is an easy-to-use lifestyle management and resident engagement application that connects Dial families, residents, and staff—helping to instill confidence and trust while improving communication and enhancing lives.
The key features of LifeLoop include community calendars and the ability to RSVP for events and activities, a family gateway that streamlines photo sharing and phone calls, engagement tools to inform community staff of a resident’s interests and general wellness, maintenance and transportation request portals to keep life moving smoothly, and so much more in an simple-to-use, easy-to-read, can’t-live-without format.
LifeLoop benefits to residents and family members include giving residents an engaging way to keep family members in the know about daily life at dial, offering families added peace of mind through weekly updates on activity engagement and convenient messaging, and helping staff members easily connect with family for a stronger and more reliable flow of communication.
We provide scheduled transportation to personal appointments.