Mary Ryder Home

The team provides personalized therapeutic support, assistance with daily living skills, and connections to mental and physical health care, based on each resident's needs and goals.

Staff are trained to care for seniors and people with severe and persistent mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and the home provides medication administration and help coordinating physical health care.

The care team stores and administers each woman's prescribed medicine, so residents do not have to refill prescriptions or remember when to take medication.

The program emphasizes rehabilitation and skill-building so each woman can live as independently as possible while her dignity is preserved.

Residents must be Medicaid recipients. Costs of occupancy, including rent, dietary, personal care and behavioral health care, are covered through the resident's SSI and SSA benefits.

Each woman has her own room with a double bed, a dresser and a Jack-and-Jill bathroom.

Visitors are welcome in the common areas with approval from residents, as are pre-scheduled and vetted volunteers.

A common area is available to watch TV, work on crafts and socialize with other residents.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are prepared by the home's team and eaten in the dining room.

The home schedules many field trips and outings, such as picking apples, visiting a new restaurant, shopping and playing bingo. Many residents also attend other day programs.

Mary Ryder Home is at 4361 Olive Street in St. Louis, Missouri.