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Business View Magazine
Recognizing a growing area of service need and de-
mand related to dementia and cognitive impairment,
the Club sponsored its second housing project, in
2008 - the Riverside Lions Senior Residences Inc.,
specializing in early-stage dementia care. The building
was constructed to provide quality, affordable housing
and it incorporated a number of additional programs
and services within both its structural and operational
designs. Every detail of the building and its operations
was planned to best serve the needs of persons living
with dementia, including, for example, incorporating
22 percent more lighting, strategic color selection and
contrasting, functional suite designs, a carefully de-
veloped management approach that supports tenant
and front-line staff decision making, carefully selected
business partners, environments that are easy to navi-
gate, and décors that support autonomy, maximize in-
dependence, and support comfortable living. The new
building features 48 supportive housing studio suites
and 27 assisting living, one-bedroom apartments.
The building also has a large commercial kitchen that
serves tenants, staff, and community and business
partners from both Riverside Lions Estates and River-
side Lions Seniors Residences.
“Supportive housing is by far the largest, most com-
plex, area of operations,” says Devlin. “The program is
a non-professionally based, non-medical program, with
