Avendelle at Picardy Point

Avendelle at Picardy Point is an assisted living and dementia care home on Talloway Drive in Cary. It is a real house on a quiet street with six private rooms, so the whole place holds six residents and one care team. Staff are there around the clock.

Melissa Rich opened it, and she runs it with administrator Mo Carr. Their line is that this is the way senior care was always meant to be. The home is touring now and accepting residents, and the tours are quiet and unhurried.

What to know

• Private tours are arranged by appointment, and inquiries usually get a same-day response.
• Melissa Rich spent 15 years in healthcare, biotechnology and clinical research before opening the home.
• Administrator Mo Carr brings more than 17 years of senior care leadership.
• Rich points to her father, an Air Force veteran and business owner, as her greatest role model.