What will the finished product look like?

Our homes are just that, homes. We’re planning on Ranch style homes that are styled to fit into your residential neighborhood. They feature living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, fireplaces, libraries, bedrooms and a serene outdoor space. Each home houses between 8 and 16 residents.

Our small footprint is important. It enables us to provide individualized care with a focus on preventive mental and physical health, enabling our Residents to enjoy a more fulfilling life.

How many residents will live there?

We will have no more than 80 Residents across our five homes. Each home will house 16 residents.

The smaller residential model of care with no more than 16 residents per home lends itself to better infectious disease prevention. In addition to following all CDC guidelines and heath care best practices, our individualized care coupled with a home layout that restricts the spread of infectious disease, like COVID, will help ensure the safety of our Residents and staff.

Also, we have planned a specialized room for family visits that can be decontaminated before and after a visit – non caregivers, like maintenance and food delivery take place without having to interact with our residents – and simply by having a smaller footprint per home, the number of outsiders a resident interacts with is far fewer than in a traditional, large senior care facility.

Don’t we have enough senior living facilities in our area?

At first glance, it may seem like it, however, the State of Missouri has given us a Certificate of Need for 80 beds. This need is not only based upon what is in existence today, but what the demand will be in the future.

10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 each day and 60,000 new senior housing units are required per year (NIC MAP© Data Service).  According to the American Seniors Housing Association’s 2016 Market Brief, this growth of the senior population will require a 173% increase in senior housing over the next 25 years to keep up with demands. 

In St. Louis, the alternative for senior living is primarily confined to large facilities where one caregiver might have responsibility for caring for 15-20 or more residents. There are only 3-4 similar developments or proposed developments locally - that is less than 1% of senior care facilities in the region that are in an intimate, residential homelike setting like Harmony Homes.