D'Vine Home

My younger son and I went to look at D'Vine Home. We like the place. It's nice and clean. My husband is going to be the only male. He will have a room just for himself. The room is clean. It's a medium sized room. It's not huge, and it's not small. It's very nice. I like the cleanliness of everything in there. It wasn't like it was tidied up for the tour. It looked like they spent time cleaning. Although they don't have grass on the outside, it is nice and neat. I like that place. I like the people who manage it, too. It was a neat experience going in and talking to them because they told us things we can do to help financially with him, like where to go and what to do. They were very helpful in that case. We didn't taste any food because they already had lunch when we arrived. They do the meals according to their diet. Most of them are diabetics. My husband and two other people have high blood pressure, so they cook the meals according to their diets. What we like there is that they don't have to eat breakfast all at the same time. My husband is a late riser. They said it's OK because they have some people like that, but no later than 9:30 AM. I did like that. We asked about their activities. They have memory games. Because of their dementia and some of them have Alzheimer's, they cannot play games that are long. The activities are five minutes and sometimes less because they just wander and don't finish the game. They have memory games, and they do this for five minutes. They know when their minds wander, and they're not paying attention so then they stop. They take them outside. They sit outside, and they have picnics outside. The staff who toured us were very helpful and knowledgeable about dementia. They asked the questions about my husband that the other place did not ask. It was good that they know about his behavior, how long he's been behaving like that, if he has escalated, and things like that. It was very important to us. We love that place.

We put a deposit down over at D'Vine Home. So far, it's very nice. The place is very clean and the owners are very helpful and pleasant. The staff that helped me during the tour was very pleasant, very informative and very helpful.

D'Vine Home looked really comfortable and had very caring people. The place appeared very clean and like a typical home with a lot of bedrooms and a main common area. The residents looked clean and well fed.