Gracious Retirement Living

Set in the historic Doolittle family homestead, Doolittle Home is located just off the Foxboro Common and across from the library. Residents in the main house enjoy a private room. Many bring their own treasured furnishings to make their room home. While on the nursing unit, residents enjoy semi-private rooms with the nursing staff nearby.

The Home features beautiful common areas including the spacious sunroom where residents enjoy a variety of activities from bowling to their exercise classes. The gracious parlor is perfect for visits with their guests as well as some activities such as trivia and poetry readings. The dining room is an elegant setting for meals and residents rotate their table assignments each twp months to help them get to know each other better. The nursing unit has its own day room and a beautiful porch overlooking the gardens. The main house features an upstairs outdoor deck and a lovely screened porch on the main level which offers the best seats in town for Foxboro’s annual Founders Day parade each June.

Families of residents enjoy the guest facilities available on the third floor. For a nominal fee family members can stay in the Home while visiting their loved ones and share meals with them in the dining room. This helps families maximize their time together while seeing first hand the day to day activity of Doolittle Home.

Staff is always available to help residents with their rooms whether it is to hang a picture or to program the VCR and DVD.

Doolittle Home has a wheelchair-accessible van to provide transportation of residents for medical appointments and social activities. As a good corporate citizen, Doolittle Home also makes the van available to transport Foxboro veterans to medical appointments with members of the board as drivers.

The Home also features a beautiful garden area with a walking path and gazebo. The park is the perfect place to enjoy a summer day in New England or the annual cookout with the trustees.

“I had such peace of mind knowing that mother was where she needed to be, being cared for by
such caring people.” — Donna, about her mother Ann, a former Doolittle Home resident