Beechtree Care Center

Quality care is the heart of our mission and we are exceptionally proud of our dedicated staff. Our nurses use a team-oriented approach to provide the best possible delivery of care 24 hours a day. Mandatory, comprehensive in-service education programs are scheduled regularly to keep personnel up-to-date on new treatments, practices, preventative care, and safety procedures.

Our Medical Director and Director of Nursing are responsible for the oversight of medical policies and procedures, and are available for emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Many services such as x-ray, dentistry, podiatry, audiology, psychiatry, psychology, and ophthalmology are readily available when necessary. We also maintain a transfer agreement with Cayuga Medical Center to provide immediate acute-level care if needed.

Seneca Summit, our Alzheimer's & Dementia Care Neighborhood at Beechtree provides a safe and supportive environment for individuals with varying levels of dementia. Our mission is to provide mental, physical and emotional freedom for residents in the safest, least restrictive environment. Activities and exercise programs are specifically designed to help maintain strengths, abilities, and promote feelings of independence and personal dignity.

These days, Seneca Summit benefits from the work of Linda Levine Madori, Ph.D, who has dedicated the past twenty-five years to helping seniors with memory impairment preserve their abilities to think, remember and function. Through the course of this work she has developed a method that uses creative arts - art, music, and movement - to help caregivers and therapists engage the elderly. This method, known as the TTAP Method, has been implemented at Beechtree Care Center.

The TTAP Method is cutting edge and new to the world of Alzheimer’s Disease study. Beechtree is the first Residence in the United States that has applied the TTAP method to the daily life of an entire Alzheimer’s Neighborhood.

Three Main Goals are woven throughout the TTAP Method:

1. Through the continual use of creativity (i.e. art, music etc.,) therapists work to enhance self-esteem and self-worth, thereby creating intrinsic motivation. This process takes place continually within the group.

2. Through the continual use of past and present personal history, life experiences and life-interests, the TTAP Method evaluates each resident’s focus for self-expression and makes it part of all programming.

3. Each individual’s unique combination of skills, cognitive functioning and capabilities for self-expression are used to stimulate areas of the brain. This stimulation enables residents to hold onto memories and language, slowing down the debilitating results of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia.

TTAP incorporates creative arts into a structured therapeutic program so that through sculpture, music, art, poetry, and other events our residents can engage their minds, bodies, and senses to prolong their quality of life and their ability to function on many levels. These activities are structured yet flexible, and are individualized for each participant’s learning needs or interests. They provide a natural way of learning and processing information through enjoyable moments.