Jewish Home Lifecare Offers Long-Term Care Community For Blind & Vision-Impaired Elders

Jewish Home Lifecare and the Jewish Guild for the Blind have partnered to create The Guild Institute for Vision & Aging.
The Guild Institute is a long term skilled nursing residential community dedicated to the care of elders who are blind or vision-impaired; it’s located on JHL’s award-winning Bronx campus.
Residents are offered the Guild’s extensive knowledge and experience providing care and services to people with vision loss, while benefiting from JHL’s expertise providing quality residential care to elders, including our nationally acclaimed programs for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Staff people in the community are educated and certified using The Jewish Guild’s SightCare program, a leading system of training for those who care for, work with, or interact with visually impaired or blind people.

Additionally, visually impaired clients have access to all the programs and services offered by Jewish Home Lifecare’s Bronx Division:

• Rehabilitation therapies
• In-house hemodialysis center
• Alzheimer’s Disease special care community
• The Swallowing Center
• HAPI personal care
• On-site Adult Day Healthcare Program, with an established  program for vision-impaired elders
• Senior housing including Kittay House, located on the Bronx Division campus
• Award-winning gardens located on a secure 5-acre campus

The Guild Institute community features the latest amenities of residential nursing care, adapted to better support those with vision impairments.  Rooms and hallways have indirect lighting to prevent glare; increased lighting supports vision. Contrasting colors are utilized to differentiate common areas and private spaces. Signage displays in high-contrast and Braille.

(The architectural drawing above shows a common room in the Institute, as it will look after renovations. The lighting in the room is designed to increase the amount of light. Contrasting paint helps the vision impaired move from room to room.) 
To refer a patient or client or for more information, please call the Bronx Admissions office at (718) 410-1330.