Maloney spoke about Sycamore Village Tuesday before the Columbia City Rotary
(Talk of the Town file photos by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Columbia City Rotary member Kristi Maloney spoke in detail Tuesday about Sycamore Village, a senior living facility at SR 14 and County Line Road, shown above. Below is Kristi Maloney at the grand opening of Sycamore Village in July 2008.
By Jennifer Zartman Romano
Kristi Maloney, a member of the Columbia City Rotary, and a sales and marketing professional with Sycamore Village shared a detailed, insightful discussion about the local facility’s many services to senior citizens. Sycamore Village is located just off SR 14 and County Line Road near Dunfee. 
Sycamore Village offers independent living, assisted living and memory care services, including nutritionally balanced meals, transportation, housekeeping, social and cultural engagements, wellness and safety programming and more in their newly constructed facility. The facility includes a movie theatre, billiards room, salon, spa, game room, exercise activities and more.
“When we’re talking about what assisted living is,” Maloney said, “it’s dorm life and apartment living put together. You’re independent, with people your age and having fun.”
Shopping trips, seasonal events like musical performances and country drives to watch the leaves change are more of the amenities aimed at making the senior years golden.
The newly introduced “Happy Hour” at Sycamore Village seems to be the best idea yet, according to Maloney – with excellent and growing participation each night.
The facility, which opened in July, is now one-third full and continues to accept new residents. Sycamore Village is a licensed residential care facility and offers round the clock nursing care services. Offerings include studio apartments, one bedroom deluxe and two bedroom units. In addition to longer term living arrangements, they also provide respite care and adult daycare services as well.
Maloney talked in depth about the facility’s memory care services. The 30-unit community is a safe, secure place for residents with Alzheimer’s and dementia issues. The facility’s self-designed Connect Program features daily baking projects that aim to link the sensory experience of smell to memories. “In memory care, we go to where they are. We go to their world,” Maloney said. “If it’s 1950 for them, it’s 1950.”
When asked if she encounters resistance when its time for residents to make the move to an assisted living facility, Maloney said, “There not one resident who has come in and said, ‘I’m ready to be here.” Yet, after a short period of time, often just days, residents come to find they love the newly found freedom and comfort of the facility.
For more information on Sycamore Village, contact Kristi Maloney at 625-4025 or via email at kmaloney@thehearth.net