Our mission is to work passionately and relentlessly to change how people care for the aging.  Age and memory impairment does not mean that the human spirit is no more.  It still exists but speaks in a different way.  At Abellavida we guide our residents with love and respect to a life full of purpose and meaning.  Abellavida, where people live life and their spirit is allowed to shine.

The idea of Abellavida was inspired by Paul’s father.  After suffering a heart attack, his father was left with serious irreversible mental and physical deficits.  The patriarch of the family, a very loving, involved family man, now had difficulty remember his grandchildren’s names.  A successful businessman, now was unable to balance a check book.  A very active man, now had to learn to use a walker and would tire easily.  And a once very social, outgoing man, now was unable to relate and appropriately communicate with family and friends.  His family quickly recognized that if left stationary and unengaged too long, his already limited motor, cognitive, social, and emotional functioning would diminish even more.  In the family’s search for a place that could offer the rehabilitative and supportive services that Paul’s father needed, but finding the industry lacking, this sparked the idea for Abellavida.

“I wanted to create a program that offered the level of quality of care I would want for my own father and be proud to offer it to other concerned families looking for the same for their loved one.”