Dar Echra is a long-term care residence in El Menzah 4, Tunis, with shared or private rooms, day-and-night nursing presence, daily assistance, and adapted routines. We welcome people living with Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, reduced mobility, post-stroke needs, or high dependency. This is not an outpatient clinic or hospital; every admission is assessed transparently.
See the rooms, supported lounges and secure garden where residents live day to day, in residential Alzheimer care in Tunis, Tunisia, designed around safety, familiar routines and dignity.
The monthly package includes the room, meals, 24/7 nursing presence, daily assistance, distribution of prescribed medication, and adapted activities. Admission remains subject to an assessment of the person’s needs.
Published package, confirmed after reviewing care needs and room suitability.
Private space and monthly package confirmed clearly before admission.
Entrusting the care of a parent living with Alzheimer’s is deeply personal. At Dar Echra, we never reduce someone to what they forget: we learn their routines, gestures, comforts, and what still makes them smile. Our team supports without rushing, making days more predictable and families less alone.
A change of place, noise, or routine can create distress that a person may no longer be able to explain.
✅ The team first looks for the trigger, uses simple language, and offers a familiar cue, quieter space, or known activity before considering another response.
Families often fear that preferences, habits, and personality will disappear behind the word Alzheimer.
✅ Before admission, we gather reassuring topics, music, gestures, routines, and important relationships so daily support reflects the person’s own history.
Wandering or searching for an exit needs a readable environment, not confrontation.
✅ Supported walking routes, visual cues, and secure spaces help the resident keep moving and return toward a calm, recognizable place without being rushed.
Everyday orientation
A picture, colour, song, or familiar gesture can open a conversation. We offer short, understandable moments adapted to the person’s attention that day.
Consistent meal, rest, and activity rhythms reduce avoidable uncertainty and make the day easier to read.
Prescribed doses are administered with attention to refusal, drowsiness, swallowing, and changes that need coordination.
Washing, dressing, eating, transfers, and walking follow simple steps and a pace that respects slowed movement and remaining ability.
Music, familiar objects, sensory prompts, and everyday gestures support connection rather than testing memory.
Regular seating, suitable textures, and unhurried help make meals more understandable and safer.
Supported walking and safe garden time maintain movement without placing the person in a confusing situation.
Disorientation or anxiety may coexist with slowed movement, stiffness, or difficulty initiating a step. We observe rhythm, behaviour, mobility, and eating so daily help can be adjusted and relevant changes shared clearly with the family and attending physician.
Stable cues, simple communication, familiar routines, and activities that support what the person can still do.
Help with standing, dressing, meals, transfers, and walking, with a slower pace, fall prevention, and observation of swallowing difficulty.
Daily assistance, meals, prescribed medication routines, and physician coordination adapted to the assessed need.
Doses are linked to familiar timings and gestures; refusal, unusual drowsiness, or difficulty swallowing is observed, documented, and coordinated under the prescription.
For someone who is disoriented, going outside should not end at a confusing barrier. Paths, visible resting points, and familiar activities create a readable route for walking and returning to a known place.
A supported route allows movement without ending at a confusing exit or dead end.
Watering, touching leaves, or sorting herbs can call on procedural memories that often remain available.
Shaded seating helps a resident slow down, rest, and rejoin the route without pressure.
A family’s knowledge of the person gives meaning to our daily observations. Changes in sleep, appetite, walking, or speech are easier to understand when the team knows who the resident was before memory changed.
We discuss memory, orientation, sleep, mobility, eating, medication, and behavior to determine honestly whether residential care is suitable.
📞 First screening by phoneDuring the visit, look at the room, walking routes, and quiet spaces, then ask how the team would respond to a familiar situation.
📅 Visit offered within 48 hoursPhotos, familiar objects, schedules, music, and useful habits are shared before arrival so the first days feel easier to understand.
✅ Transition prepared with the familyMemory changes, but the person remains: preferences, dignity, and ways of connecting still guide every part of the support.
Ask who will learn your relative’s habits and how those details remain available when staff shifts change.
Check how changes in sleep, appetite, walking, or agitation are recorded and when the family is contacted.
Dar Echra is a residential Alzheimer care center in El Menzah 4, Tunis. Residents live on site in shared or private rooms, with meals, daily assistance, 24/7 nursing presence, and adapted activities. It is not an outpatient consultation center or hospital. We assess each person before admission to confirm that residential care is appropriate.
We assess people living with Parkinson’s alongside Alzheimer’s, dementia, or other memory changes. The discussion covers orientation, slowed movement, balance and falls, eating and swallowing, and prescribed medication timing. We then tell the family clearly whether the residence can safely meet those combined needs.
Published pricing is 2,000 TND per month for a shared room and 3,600 TND per month for a private room, all inclusive. Needs are assessed before admission so the room, feasible support, and quotation are confirmed clearly.
The night team observes what wakes or unsettles the person, keeps walking safe, and gives factual information to the day team. An unusual change is shared with the family and coordinated with the physician when needed.
Relatives can share photos, music, familiar phrases, schedules, and habits that bring reassurance. Visits are encouraged during broad hours, and we help families choose a time that fits the resident’s daily rhythm.
With practical details about memory, sleep, walking, and treatment, we can say whether a visit to the residential Alzheimer center is worthwhile.
