- December 18, 2025
What is she going to eat? Who will help her if she falls?
These questions can plague families as they choose an assisted living facility for their loved ones — even when considering luxury options. At Aden Senior Living, in Ormond Beach, both of those questions are answered in a way that should bring comfort to the families.
Under the leadership of Aden Senior Living President Ashley Halmos and Community Relations Coordinator Amber Wagner, residents can be served food — from personal wait staff — from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., not just at designated meal times.
And, thanks to an A.I. tool called AUGi, the care team is alerted any time a resident is at risk of a fall.
What follows is a conversation with Halmos and Wagner about how Aden Senior Living stands out among luxury assisted living facilities — at competitive pricing. Contact the facility here.
What is special about the third floor at Aden Senior Living?
Our entire third floor is called our Club Level. They are more independent senior apartments, but they're still licensed by the Agency for Health Care Administration. They have kitchens with induction stovetop, dishwasher, and a washer and dryer in each unit, which is super unique in an assisted living setting.
But because of the license, a resident can move in as an independent living resident and then age in place here as they need to, without having to move apartments. we can keep people here through the end of their life. That's our goal.
Whether you live in the club level apartments or our standard assisted living apartments, we have four different levels of care. So it's very customizable. It’s based on a point system, depending on what you need assistance with, and those are fluid, so they can change as you need additional care.
We have a separate memory care, called Trio, which is a secured environment.
How much interaction with a doctor do the residents have here on a regular basis?
That depends on their doctor. Residents have their free choice of doctor, whether it's a doctor outside in the community who they've seen for their entire lives, or someone they chose on their own here recently. We also do have two different physicians groups that come in and visit our residents here in the community if the residents choose to do so.
Who manages Aden Senior Living?
We are managed by Thrive Senior Living, which has been in operation since 2008. So we are a community in their portfolio. Thrive is big enough, but small enough to be intimately aware of what all the communities are doing
What is your approach to personalized care?
We have individualized care plans for each resident. We have a nurse on staff who oversees those care plans and can coordinate care between doctors, third parties, families and the residents. That's usually a huge concern of family members, but it's all individualized and tailored to that person. Our care team does a wonderful job of caring for residents.
We also are governed by ACHA, so they do surveys and visits. We're deficiency free, and the license is in good standing. We have no citations. So that's always something huge that families want to know.
How does your dining program work?
Our dining program is something that's super unique and a differentiator: We have open dining from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and it's all served restaurant style. So when residents come down, they're presented with a menu, and they can order whatever they want off the menu. We have salads, sandwiches, and then we have daily specials — breakfast specials, lunch and dinner specials. Menus are posted a week in advance, and they can plan ahead what they want to dine and eat, but they get to choose when they come down. It gives them a lot more independence.
When they take orders, it's all electronic. So when they take the order on the iPad, it's easier to track.
Most communities have a set dining time of, like, an hour, and you have to come at that time, and they have maybe two different options, not a whole menu.
Our dining team keeps track of who's been in the dining room for meals, so they communicate that with our care team and can say, “So and so hasn’t been down for lunch yet,” and check on them.
If you had to pick something off the menu, what would you eat?
I usually go for the specials. I would probably pick either the grilled margarita chicken breast or the grilled salmon. They're both delicious.
What about activities?
We have a full activities calendar. We have happy hours once a week, usually with musical entertainment, which is a lot of fun. We also have a wonderful partnership with Art Attack, which is a local art company. They come in and do art classes with our residents. They're coming in next week to do a wine glass painting class, which is super fun.
We do outings as well. They take the bus out for shopping, or to different restaurants. They went to Halifax Plantation recently, to do the Christmas lights and a fun lunch. We go to a lot of plays, like at the Daytona Playhouse. We have a chat with the residents so they have a voice in what we're doing, so it's catered to what they want to do.
What do you like about the design and atmosphere in Aden Senior Living?
It's modern but also feels like home. It’s large enough that the residents are not on top of each other. They want their private space, their private apartments. But it's also not hard for them to get around the community, to the amenity areas, activities, dining. We have an elevator on each end of the community, so regardless of what side or end of a hallway they reside on, it's very easy for them to get around.
It's a beautiful building, and it was designed very intentionally. It’s designed as a square in our assisted living. So as long as you're on the right floor, if you keep going, you will eventually make it to where you need to be. It's also nicer because that means none of our residents have too long of a walk to get from anywhere.
We have 131 apartments: 99 in assisted living, 31 in Trio, which is memory care.
How does the AUGi system work in Trio?
AUGi is an A.I. fall detection program. It uses a camera system, and it’s set for the resident’s fall risk level. One resident might be a fall risk if they stand up at all. Another might not. But if it’s sent for standing, then any time that resident stands, the care team will be notified.
The camera is set up to show something more like a stick figure, for privacy, so you can’t see, for example, what the resident is wearing. But you can tell if the resident stands or sits.
This technology is unique in assisted living. Typically, residents in Trio can't call for help, and they don't always have the cognitive awareness to realize that it’s not safe for them to stand up. So this is a huge safety thing. If a resident falls and unfortunately doesn't yell for help in other communities, sometimes it takes a little bit for them to find them. That's always a fear families have, especially in a memory care setting.
Some people who are reading about this technology, and this level of care, might think, This place must be expensive.
Communities that are at the same par we are, pricing is about the same. For a luxury assisted living, we're very competitively priced.
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