Kennebunk Kennebunkport Retirement Guide – Assisted Living Facilities
Many people choose to retire in the Kennebunkport and Kennebunk area. Kennebunkport and Kennebunk offer vibrant but relaxing communities where you can retire and enjoy the four seasons of Maine by the sea. Maine has been named one of the top places to retire and the Kennebunks have numerous options for seniors from retirement communities and condominium living, to independent living and assisted care facilities like Huntington Common, and The Farragut, to nursing home and lifecare alternatives like Atria, and a memory care facility Avita in nearby Wells.
There is so much to see and do in the Kennebunks, and seniors find that to be especially true since they have the time to explore the region. There is summer theatre, shopping, dining, beach walks all year round, concerts in the park, and a year round roster of senior outings sponsored by the Kennebunk Parks and Recreation.
Kennebunks Senior Center is also a vibrant club with senior classes, crafts, events and socials, including day trips, exercise or educational classes. Brick Store Museum offers conitnuous lecutres, walking tours and classes from their downtown hostirc campus in Kennebunk.
Kennebunkport Historical Society, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, River Tree Arts and Adult Education of the Kennebunks all offer classes, events and continuing ed opportunites from travel, outings, dance, cooking and craft instruction, plus senior exercise programs, even online tutorials.
Depending upon whether you want independent living in your own private apartment, with meals provided in a restaurant style environment within the retirement community, or you require skilled nursing home care or advanced medical supervision, there are retirement facilities to fit your needs in Kennebunk.
Nearby in Wells, Abbeyfield is a retirement community, and Avita Memory Care offers a memory care and a full Alzheimer nursing facility.
What’s great about Kennebunks’ retirement facilities is that they have so many services and amenities on site, depending on your desire to be active and your level of advanced elderly care needed. These planned retirement communities often provide everything from restaurant style meals, to beauty and barber shops, fitness programs and exercise facilities, plus planned social activities and field trips aboard their own air-conditioned buses to the beach, area lighthouses, local museums and shopping excursions. You will also find advanced assisted living and elder care with 24 hour medical staff, and care for Alzheimer’s patients with skilled nurses and doctors.
For upscale senior living communities, you will find gracious full service retirement facilities in The Kennebunks. Whether you prefer your own private apartment in a retirement community with the benefit of common areas, planned meals and social activities with other seniors, or you wish to have progressive nursing care, you will find that with the bonus of living in the beautiful community of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. Some of Kennebunk’s assisted living facilities are pet friendly too.
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