How to Prepare for the What If: Navigating Your Aging Loved One’s Care
With Delores Athey-Clearfield of Capital City Nurses
Thursday, May 2nd 6pm-7pm. Click HERE & RSVP Today!
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How to Prepare for the What If: Navigating Your Aging Loved One’s Care
With Delores Athey-Clearfield of Capital City Nurses
Thursday, May 2nd 6pm-7pm. Click HERE & RSVP Today!
Open Mobile Menu

What Makes Us Different?

We promise to love and care for your family, as we do our own.

True Aging in Place

Once you live with us, you can stay as long as you want or need.

The Kensington is unique because with our enhanced assisted living, we can provide a very high level of care in a beautiful, elegant, and warm environment.

The Kensington Offers More Comprehensive Services than Any Other Area Senior Living Community

We have the experience and expertise to support those with no care needs up to and including those with extremely high care needs and everything in between—all at our beautiful Kensington community. In addition, we specialize in caring for those with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and movement disorders.

Enhanced Assisted Living

  • Can provide support and meet the care needs of all residents, including those who:
    • are frail and/or wheelchair bound
    • require two- or three-person assistance
    • use oxygen
    • need hospice care
    • require pureed meals and/or special diets

Progressive Memory Care

  • Three levels of memory care in separate neighborhoods, allowing for further tailored and individualized care:
    • The Kensington Club in Assisted Living for residents experiencing early-stage cognitive impairment
    • Connections for residents with early- to mid-stage dementia
    • Haven Neighborhood for residents with mid- to late-stage dementia; accommodates residents with late-stage dementia, including those with behavior challenges
  • Pocket programming—customized small-group activities
  • Partnership programs and collaborations with specialty professionals who generate positive care outcomes based upon current research findings
If you have questions about the care our team at The Kensington Reston can provide, please don’t wait to get in touch with us.

Life Enrichment

  • Full-time Activities Coordinators in assisted living and memory care are dedicated to each neighborhood: AL, Connections, and Haven
  • Expressive art therapies available
    • Music therapy
    • Art therapy
  • Partnerships and collaborations with organizations in the Reston area to bring activities into the community
  • Pocket programming to allow residents to participate in one-on-one and small group activities tailored to their needs and interests
    • Arts, theater, wellness, athletics

Full Spectrum Clinical Services

  • Nurses on premises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Medication administration as needed
  • Pharmacology review at move-in and quarterly thereafter
  • Diabetes management including injections (sliding scale)
  • Onsite rehabilitation services, including physical, speech, and occupational therapies
  • Onsite physician’s office
  • Multiple visiting medical specialties

Higher Level Professional Staff

  • Medication administration by nurses
  • Dedicated Assisted Living Manager
  • Dedicated Director of Memory Care 
  • Full-time Memory Care Supervisor
  • Positive Approach to Care (PAC) trained and certified team members
  • Health and Wellness Program
    • Exercise Specialist who provides assessments, dementia education, and wellness programs

Additional Unique Features

  • Reputation for ongoing staff loyalty
  • Complimentary meals for friends and families of residents at all times
  • All-day dining 
  • Private ownership by career senior living professionals who are directly involved in the day-to-day goings on at The Kensington



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