Fairfax, Virginia · Assisted Living & Memory Care
Seven residents. One home.
Most assisted living communities are measured in dozens of residents and hallways. Virginia Legacy is a single house in Fairfax, licensed for seven — where a caregiver knows how your mother takes her coffee, and someone notices on the day she seems a little unlike herself.
Pre-licensure — not yet accepting residents
Why a seven-resident home
The difference is not the finishes. It is the ratio.
A mid-size community may care for a hundred or more residents across several wings. Here it is seven, in one house. That single number changes what care can actually look like, day to day.
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The same faces, every day
A small team means residents are not re-introducing themselves to a rotating staff. Familiarity is not a nicety for an older adult with memory loss — it is the thing that lowers anxiety.
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Change gets noticed early
A quieter appetite, a new unsteadiness, a word not coming. In a seven-person household these register within a day — not at the next quarterly review.
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The day bends to the resident
Someone who has woken at 5:30am for sixty years can still wake at 5:30am. Small homes can hold personal routines that a facility schedule cannot.
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You talk to the person providing care
Not a call centre and not a voicemail queue. Family questions reach the people who were actually in the room, and clinical questions reach the nurse who wrote the care plan.
- A mid-size community
- 100+residents, several wings, staff on rotation
- Virginia Legacy
- 7residents, one house, the same few faces
Community sizes vary widely; the comparison figure is illustrative.
Care and services
Everything below is included
in one monthly fee.
Virginia Legacy is licensed for both Residential Living Care and Assisted Living Care, so a resident whose needs increase does not automatically have to move again.
The hands-on part. What actually happens between waking and sleeping.
- Around the clock, awake
- A member of the care team is on site twenty-four hours a day, with awake coverage overnight.
- Help with daily living
- Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and continence care, transferring and mobility, and eating — at whatever level each person needs, and no more.
- Dignity as the default
- Residents are encouraged to do whatever they can still do themselves. Assistance is offered, not imposed.
- A call button within reach
- In every resident bedroom and every bathroom.
The part most small homes are vaguest about. Ours is led by a PhD-prepared registered nurse.
- Medication administration
- By a licensed nurse or a Registered Medication Aide certified by the Virginia Board of Nursing, recorded on a Medication Administration Record at every pass.
- Health monitoring
- Weekly weights and vital signs review, a monthly comprehensive wellness check, and assessment on any change of condition.
- Your own physician, kept in the loop
- We coordinate directly with each resident's primary care physician and any specialists involved.
- A care plan that gets rewritten
- The Individualised Service Plan is updated on any significant change — not held until the annual review.
- Transport to appointments
- One round trip per month per resident is included.
A house that runs like a house: meals cooked here, laundry done here, bills already paid.
- Three meals and two snacks, daily
- On a fourteen-day cycle reviewed by a consulting registered dietitian, with therapeutic diets as standard.
- Personal laundry and housekeeping
- Weekly at minimum, with bedding changed weekly or more often as needed.
- Every utility included
- Electricity, gas, water, internet and basic cable — nothing metered back to the family.
- A private or shared bedroom
- Four resident bedrooms, all on the second floor.
The reason to get up, dressed and out of the room. Programmed, not improvised.
- Daily activity programming
- Physical, creative, cognitive, social and spiritual — with therapeutic activities adapted for cognitive impairment.
- One-to-one where it suits
- Available for anyone who prefers it or needs it. Participation is always encouraged and never required.
- The month, published in advance
- A monthly activity calendar is posted and given to every resident and family.
- Families in the building
- Visiting is 9:00am to 8:00pm, and outside those hours with notice. Children are welcome.
Every service in full, plus medication, staffing and emergency detail
Memory care
For families navigating dementia
Virginia Legacy is being licensed to operate a safe, secure environment for residents living with cognitive impairment — not as an add-on wing, but as part of how the whole household runs.
- A small, legible world: Seven residents in one house means fewer corridors to get lost in, fewer strangers, and a layout a person can still hold in mind.
- Routine as treatment: Meals, rest and activity land at the same times each day.
- Therapeutic programming, not just entertainment: Reminiscence sessions, music therapy, sensory activities and a monthly Memory Cafe that families are invited into — chosen because they engage long-term memory that dementia leaves intact longest.
A day at Virginia Legacy
What Tuesday actually looks like
Morning
The house wakes gradually. Breakfast runs for ninety minutes, because people wake differently and nobody is roused to suit a rota.
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7:30am — Morning greetings and breakfast
Breakfast service runs until 9:00am. Nobody is woken to fit a schedule.
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9:00am — Chair exercise and stretching
Fifteen gentle minutes for balance, circulation and joints.
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9:30am — Coffee and the newspaper
Open social time. Conversation, headlines, and no obligation to be anywhere.
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10:45am — Morning programme
Rotating by day: Memory Lane reminiscence, a supervised garden walk, brain games, chair yoga.
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12:00pm — Lunch
The main shared meal of the day, unhurried.
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1:00pm — Quiet time and personal care
Rest, a bath, a phone call home — whatever the afternoon needs to be.
The house, in motion
A slow pass through the rooms — every frame a photograph of the real house.
See the rooms in detailHonest fit
We are not the right home for everyone
Every admission is decided by a Uniform Assessment Instrument evaluation and a pre-admission assessment by our Director of Nursing.
Likely a fit
We are likely a good fit for
- Adults aged 60 and older
- Someone assessed as needing residential or assisted living level care
- Residents who are ambulatory or semi-ambulatory
- Stable medical conditions managed by a primary care physician
- Mild to moderate cognitive impairment or dementia, including residents who cannot reliably recognise danger — we are licensed for a secure environment
- Some skilled treatments permitted in assisted living, such as wound care and ostomy care, because a licensed nurse is employed here
- Private-pay families — we do not participate in the Auxiliary Grant programme at initial licensure
- Families who want a small household rather than a large community
Not a fit
We are not able to accept
- Anyone needing 24-hour skilled nursing care — we are not a nursing home
- Continuous IV therapy or ventilator support
- Behaviours that would endanger the resident, other residents or staff
- Unmanaged substance use
- Communicable disease requiring isolation beyond standard precautions
- Residents who are non-ambulatory — our licence covers ambulatory and semi-ambulatory residents
- Gastric tube care
- Specialised mental health treatment — we coordinate with outside providers rather than providing it
- Care needs beyond what our licence allows us to provide safely
If we are not the right fit, we will say so early and help point you toward a setting that is.
Licensing & accountability
Where we are in the process, in plain terms
Choosing care involves trust. We would rather show you the paperwork than ask you to take our word for it.
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Status: Complete.
Complete
Company and zoning
Sasa Consulting Partners LLC formed and registered with the Virginia SCC. Fairfax County zoning approved for a seven-resident home — Use Determination INTOAB-2026-00012, issued 6 March 2026.
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Status: Complete.
Complete
Health department inspection
Sanitation inspection passed. Inspection reference HCORE-2026-00141.
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Status: Complete.
Complete
Application package prepared
Disclosure Statement, rules and procedures manual, organisational chart, staffing sheet, two-week menu and monthly activity schedule are all drafted and ready to upload.
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Status: Under way.
Under way
Building work and inspections
Grab bars, hallway handrails, non-slip flooring, interconnected hardwired smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors and the emergency call system. The Fairfax County building evaluation and the Fire Marshal inspection both follow this work.
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Status: Not yet.
Not yet
Application submitted to VDSS
Not yet submitted. Several items must be complete first, including a named licensed Administrator, a contract physician, background checks and reference letters for both owners, and insurance in place.
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Status: Not yet.
Not yet
Licence issued
For Residential Living Care and Assisted Living Care, including a safe, secure environment for residents with cognitive impairment. VDSS is explicit that completing every step does not guarantee a licence — we will not describe ourselves as licensed until we are.
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Status: Not yet.
Not yet
Opening
Everyone on the update list hears before we announce publicly.
Planning ahead starts with a conversation.
Ask us anything. No waiting-list fee, no obligation — and honest answers about fit.