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Nursing oversight and noon medications
Blood pressure, blood sugar and a handwritten note home every afternoon.
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Adult day program · Siloam Springs, Arkansas
A garden, a good lunch and a friend at every table.
Lilac Lane is an adult day program in a 1910 cottage and garden a block from Sager Creek: a nurse on site, lunch from our kitchen, flowers from our beds and a van home before supper.
Our cottage
Margaret planted the lilacs before she ever opened the door.
Margaret Ellery was a home health nurse in Benton County for twenty years. Again and again she met women and men who were safe enough at home but lonely all day, and families wearing themselves thin trying to fill the hours. In 2012 she bought the old Patterson cottage on Lilac Lane, planted sixty lilac bushes along the fence and spent a year making the house ready.
Today the cottage is full of retired schoolteachers and college professors, a former florist, a few farmers and one very opinionated retired pharmacist. They come for the garden, the company and the lunch. Their families send them because a nurse is in the house every hour and nobody is ever left on their own.
— Margaret Ellery, RN, founder
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Garden club and the cutting beds
Members plant, tend and cut the flowers that fill the tables.
Spring to fall
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Lunch in the dining room
Cloth napkins and home cooking. Chicken salad on Tuesdays, pie on Fridays.
IncludedPhoto tour
Seasons at the cottage
- 1910the year the cottage was built
- 32members on a typical day
- 60lilac bushes in the garden
- 5:1members to staff
Sample family reviews
Notes from our families
Mother taught home economics for thirty years. She's been put in charge of the Tuesday chicken salad, and she takes it very seriously.
My wife was a florist. She can't always find words now, but she can still make an arrangement that stops you in the doorway.
Margaret called me because Dad seemed off after lunch. It was a low blood sugar, caught right there, before anything happened.
The handwritten note in his pocket every afternoon is the best part of my day. Some days it's two lines, some days it's a whole page.
I drive in from Fayetteville. Knowing Mama is in a garden instead of alone in her kitchen lets me breathe.
Grandma brought home a watercolor of the lilacs. It's framed in our hallway now.
My father is a retired pharmacist and corrects the nurses on drug names. They thank him every time.
It's the gentlest place I've ever walked into.
Rooms & suites
Rooms of the cottage
Small rooms, big windows and a garden at every turn.
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The front parlor
The old front room with its bay window, piano and deep chairs, where the day starts with coffee.
- Piano
- Bay window
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The garden room
A sunroom off the kitchen for the memory care group, with wicker chairs and a door straight onto the garden.
- Garden door
- Dementia-friendly
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The reading nook
A quiet corner upstairs by elevator, with shelves of donated books and a recliner for naps.
- Recliner
- Elevator access
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The bath suite
A warm, private bath with a walk-in tub and roll-in shower, and a trained aide.
- Walk-in tub
- Grab bars
Activities & dining
A week in the cottage
A sample week. The full calendar is mailed home on the first of the month.
Mon
- Coffee and the paper in the parlor
- Garden club
Tue
- Chicken salad lunch
- Handwork circle
Wed
- Afternoon tea
- Watercolor with university students
Thu
- Hair set and hymn sing
Fri
- Flower arranging
- Pie and bingo
Our team
The people of the cottage
Margaret Ellery, RN
Founder and director
Hannah Brooks, LPN
Nurse
Lourdes Castillo
Lead aide
June Whitfield
Activities and garden
For families
For the family at home
How a day at the cottage works for the people at home.
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Mornings
The gate opens at 7:30. Walk your member up the garden path, or let the van bring them.
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The note home
A handwritten note goes home in every member's pocket: lunch, mood and anything our nurse noticed.
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Medicines
Send noon doses in the pharmacy bottle. Our nurse logs every one.
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Weather days
We follow the Siloam Springs schools and call every family by 6:30 a.m.
Insurance & payment
Paying for the day
Margaret walks every family through the options before the first day.
Private pay
One daily rate, lunch and the van included, billed monthly.
Arkansas Medicaid programs
Home and community-based programs can cover adult day for members who qualify. We help with the application.
VA benefits
Adult day health care is a VA benefit for eligible veterans.
Long-term care insurance
Many policies include adult day. We fill out the forms.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Garden Club · Yard of the Month
- Readers' Choice · Best Senior Program
- County Chamber · Small Business of the Year
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- Regional Medical Center · Preferred Day Program
- Historic District · Restoration Award
Now hiring
Good people make Lilac Lane Adult Day. We are hiring for every shift.
Visit
Find the cottage
- 309 S Lilac Lane
Siloam Springs, AR
Park along Lilac Lane or in the gravel lot by the arbor. The ramp is through the garden gate. - (479) 555-0161
- Text us
- hello@lilaclaneday.example
- LilacLaneAdultDay
Tour & office hours
- Program, Mon – Fri7:30a – 5:30p
- Tours, Mon – Fri10a – 2p
- Families drop inAny time we are open
The kettle is on. Come sit with us.
Bring your mother or your dad for a visit day, our treat. Call or text Margaret and we'll set it up.