The Bungalows at Bowling Green

For an older adult who is still social but has started to need help with bathing, dressing or keeping medications straight, The Bungalows at Bowling Green offers assisted living at 981 Campbell Lane. Phoenix Senior Living manages the building. The community focuses on assisted living alone, and it also accepts short respite stays of 14 to 29 days for a caregiver who needs time off or a parent coming home from the hospital.

Daily support covers supervision of personal care tasks and of medications that residents take themselves, with trained staff available 24 hours and a resident call response system. Meals follow a full-board plan of 3 a day plus snacks, served restaurant style, and a private dining room is available when relatives come to eat. Housekeeping, linens and high-speed internet round out the basics.

Keeping active is built into the week, with group exercise and wellness classes, social events, live entertainment and outings. Residents can walk the landscaped paths or sit in the courtyard, visit the salon and barber shop, and use concierge services. Scheduled transportation covers appointments as well as group trips, so a resident who has given up driving can still get to the doctor or join an outing.

Bowling Green gives those trips some range, with the Corvette Museum, Baker Arboretum and local parks for shorter outings and Mammoth Cave for a longer day. Because memory care is not offered here, families should ask what happens if dementia develops later, and weigh options through senior living in Bowling Green.