The Chandler Estate IV

At Chandler Estate, it was there one place where I was greeted when I walked in, which impressed me. The main facility houses the assisted living patients, but the campus has this independent living where there are four apartment-style, all single-story pods around the estate. When I walked in there, the people were very friendly, and the caretakers were helpful to the assisted living people. They were kind enough to take us down and show us one of the empty units that was going to become available for rent. My mother had a two-bedroom home before that she was living in. This home was every bit as spacious as what she was used to livingin and all her furniture fit in there. It is completely fitted with kitchens and the bathrooms, but if you do not want to cook, you can have meals delivered to your home. The main campus cafeteria makes food for the assisted living, but they will bring meals, which has been very helpful. They maintain the place, tshovel the snow, and do everything, and it is quite affordable. It was probably the least expensive one out of the ones that we had checked out. She’s been there for approximately two years. There are a lot of activities, but my mother chooses not to participate in any of them. They have church services there on Sunday. I know my mother is safe there. The price was fair compared to the other places we looked at.

My dad has been in The Chandler Estate IV for over a month. It's very clean, very warm, and inviting. It has facilities for independent living and assisted living. Their meals are excellent. Their services and their people are great. They take the residents out to eat every so often and do plenty of activities. They have two dining areas upstairs and apartments downstairs. It is in a wagon wheel shape where they have short hallways coming off the common area. There are other rooms to play cards and to watch TV.

Chandler was a very nice place. They were very nice when we looked around over there. A couple of residents were even willing to let visitors take a look at their rooms or their quarters and everything seemed to be very nice and clean. They did have plenty of activities for their residents. As far as our visit went, they were very acceptable especially with the way they were acting and the way people were treating us as visitors. We were impressed with this one.

If it sounds to good to be true, it is! residents have to double pay on cable and phone bills. monthly payment to facility ($40.00 cable) and ($30.00 phone) towards connection wires which were installed back then when the apartments were built, plus monthly usage to the carrier. An incredible amount of money for a senior citizen. Office personnel NOT too friendly. This place has issues.

The area is elegant and rural but that's as far as I would go. The facility represented itself as "assisted living" I found it to be more like a locked down nursing home. It was very loud inside and chaotic. Employees were few and far between. Not an environment I would want a loved one. Dissapointing

The set up at Chandler Estates was very nice. They had the main building and then off to the sides other buildings its members could reside in. Help was provided when needed and I personally viewed the staff to be very friendly. The main building was kept very clean, and buses were available at alltted times to provide transportation. Moving around was made easy with ramps and elevators available for use. The only thing I found was that there was a funny smell upon walking into the downstairs of the main building, but I think that was just some of the elderly people.