Cypress Court

We went to Cypress Court. It was a good property. They offered the same amenities, e.g., laundry and housecleaning. It was very clean. They have lots of activities like bus tours, outings at least a couple of times a month to different place and different activities. They have a card room and a beauty shop.

We really needed a place quickly and Cypress Court just happen to have a 1-bedroom apartment available. We had had two different people tell us that they had family who had lived there who liked it and then when I visiting there with my friend, who was needing assisted living, I met a person that I was familiar with his son and he had been there for about 10 years, so it came with really good hands on people going. My mom likes it, my dad likes it, so that was part of it. The atmosphere was very positive and the person who showed us the apartment, who followed up with all the paperwork, the person who made it. What made our experience a little different was that my friend who needed that, money wasn’t a big obstacle. Literally, from looking at getting in was like a week. That made the process a lot easier. She liked the fact that everybody is so nice and then one night she didn’t show up for dinner because she had to dinner with a friend. At 7:30 that evening they checked on her to make sure she was OK. The following morning she forgot to punch the little button to tell them that she wasn’t going to breakfast then there was somebody in her door around 9 o’clock saying are you OK, we are just checking. So that was hugely comforting. She told me the other day that she went to some kind of a chair exercise class and then they have all kinds of things like bingo, bus trips, they have different things that they could join in. They have a laundry as they have two beautiful washing machines and she is doing her own laundry. The equipment and laundry was up to her standards.

Cypress Court was too big. My father had a very nice one-bedroom apartment, with full kitchen, bathroom and living room, and a little balcony, but it was very confusing for him because he had dementia. The food was excellent. They had a really beautiful dining room, all his meals were prepared for him, and he'd go down and have them in there. There was more variety in food. They had all kinds of activities. He was there a little over a year. It's beautiful and very clean, and the courtyard and the inside are very well kept. The people that work there are really wonderful, especially the caregivers.