The Atrium at Serenity Pointe

My mother moved into The Atrium at Serenity Pointe. Whenever I met with Karen from The Atrium, she knew everything about every patient there. She was very personable with every client or resident. That really warmed my heart, and then she told me a lot about the facility. Whenever I've seen it, it didn't feel bad. It wasn't four walls that they were going to look at. It was kind of like an apartment. They have their own refrigerators and their own bed with their bathroom. It's like a little studio apartment, and you get to bring your own furniture. They get to feel like it's their home. It was really important that she didn't just stare at four walls and sit in a hospital bed, and they do a lot of activities with her. They have memory care for her dementia. She's in assisted living, and she goes to memory care a couple days a week. She can do assisted living, and you can pay for a couple of days a week for her to go to memory care. It's not as expensive, because I don't have the money for her to strictly go to memory care. They're working with me on that, so that was nice. They told me what they were going to charge me, and they stuck to it. When she went in, they have their own doctor and nurses, and they've checked her blood and put her on medicines that she's needed for a long time. They worked with the family and notified us saying, "This is what we're going to do, and this is our plan," and it's been wonderful so far. The staff has been great. They call and give us updates regularly, and they send us pictures. They let us know everything that's going on, and they've been very sweet. When we checked in, they even let us sit down and eat with her, and we got to see that the food was great. They have bingo, movies, and a gym. They work with them on memory care, and they take them on walks. They went on a walk, and she called me and told me all about it and what they did. It's been wonderful. They really work with you. They have seven fireplaces, a little fountain, and you get to walk outside. It's almost like being on a cruise ship. There are trees in the middle of it. It's just absolutely gorgeous. I can't say enough about it. It's crazy that it can be this beautiful.

The Atrium at Serenity Pointe is where my mom will go because they have memory care, and in that way, she won't have to be shifted to another place. I have been there personally a couple of times, but my mother has not been able to go in and see everything. We have only been on the grounds. They have lots of grounds. You really feel like you're on an island of your own in that place. We did a Facetime tour with them. We've done everything with them but go in. The Facetime tour really did not do the place justice. This is a unique place. We have been on the grounds, but we have not been inside. We stayed outside and walked the grounds. They have a nice walkway built all the way around the facility. They even have independent condos if a person chooses to rent a condo because they're still very independent. They have more than just your assisted living and their memory care. They actually have independent living onsite as well. They did the best they could do with what they could do. They have a new director there and I got a phone call from her assistant today checking on me because I was in a bad car wreck. He called to check on me to see how I was doing. We haven't even moved in there to put a deposit down, and they know it's going to be months, but they still gave me a courtesy get-well kinda call. People don't do that today. That was very meaningful to me. They have been my first choice since we first started looking at this just because I have knowledge about the place.

The Atrium at Serenity Pointe was very good. It just wasn't the place that my mother needed to be. It was all beautiful. A lot of the people that live in that place have really no issues. They live there because they're lonesome, they want to play cards and they want to go shopping with someone else. My mother has Alzheimer's and she wouldn't have fit in at all in that group. It was a very large community. It had a lot of crooks and crannies, and at the end of the halls, there might be stairs. It just wasn't for her. It was a beautiful place and the people were extremely nice. I had no problem with communicating with them. If you have a loved one that would fit in that environment, I would highly recommend it. My mother just was not one of those.

My mother-in-law is happy in Silver Springs Assisted Living. It's a wonderful community. Everybody is caring, it's clean, and they have very good food. Her room is large enough for a queen-sized bed, four chairs, a small refrigerator, dresser, TV, coffee table, two other tables, a night stand, and she has her own bathroom. They take the residents out to dinner, they take them to see the parade at the local town, to tourist attractions nearby, to doctors' appointments, shopping, hairdresser appointments, eye appointments, and so on. They also sometimes go out for lunch, so they load everybody on the bus and they go.