Arcadia Oaks

Arcadia, the small county seat of DeSoto County in the state's rural interior, is known more for cattle ranching and its historic downtown than for senior housing, which makes Arcadia Oaks something of an outlier for the area — a campus-scale community in a county where most residential care tends to be much smaller. Licensed for 84 beds on East Gibson Street, it approaches large-campus territory, generally enough to support a dedicated activities staff and multiple common spaces distinct from the caregiving team. Because DeSoto County has fewer nearby alternatives than the coastal counties, families should ask what happens if a resident eventually needs a higher level of care than the community can provide on site, since the nearest such option may be a considerable drive from Arcadia.