WINNIPEG, MB - Bergen Gardens, a progressive assisted living facility in Winnipeg’s North Kildonan neighbourhood, has recently opened a sensory room. The sensory room, which is the newest addition to the facility’s innovative selection of attractions and wellness activities, offers residents the opportunity to experience a therapeutic environment created to stimulate the senses and promote relaxation, focus, and mental well-being.
Rooted in a person-directed care approach, Bergen Gardens is a dynamic assisted living facility where residents are surrounded by opportunities to make their own choices, maintain connections with family, friends, and loved ones, engage with nature, and participate in a wide variety of stimulating activities. The facility’s biophilic design is pet-friendly and offers 149 assisted living suites and 48 private memory suites grouped within 12-unit Cottages that feature private rooms and bathrooms with shared living areas. The complex also includes a fitness centre, activity room, cinema, reading room, greenhouse and garden, culinary and wellness services, and a town square that offers a wide range of accessible services and amenities.
On June 6, 2024, Bergen Gardens opened the doors of its new sensory room. The room, which can be privately booked by residents through the Spiritual Care Coordinator, offers calming and mood-enhancing stimuli including optical illusion light displays, aromas, colours, textures, and sounds to stimulate and engage the body through the five senses. While in the room, individuals can engage in a variety of activities including watching a light projector or lava lamp, using aromatherapy, eating a sweet or savoury treat, relaxing with a blanket or fur, listening to music, engaging the sense of touch with clay or fidget toys, and much more.
“The Sensory room is a therapeutic environment created to give your sense high levels of stimulation, to provide relaxation, calming, and mood-enhancing stimuli,” said Ramona Pauls, the Spiritual Care Coordinator at Bergen Gardens. “Utilizing a sensory room encourages neuroplasticity, which helps the brain compensate for decline as we age.”
For more information about Bergen Gardens’ sensory room and the other opportunities and services it provides, visit https://bergengardens.ca.
Media Contact
Name
Bergen Gardens
Contact name
Frank Koch-Schulte
Contact phone
(431) 482-2220
Contact address
1475 Molson St
City
Winnipeg
State
MB
Zip
R2G 4M3
Country
Canada
Url
https://www.bergengardens.ca/
