The Piedmont

Douglas

The Piedmont is a reasonably sized community of about 190 apartments and there are about 250 to 280 people. It's a mixed group with diverse demographics here, which is nice. The people are friendly. We mostly get along pretty well together. They have lots of activities for seniors to do. A few I get engaged with and a few that I don't, but they have a fair amount of activity going on. It's a pretty reasonably happy place. The staff is pretty darn good. The manager and the assistant in the office are friendly and easy to talk to and get along with. They have a maintenance staff and cleaning staff that do a pretty decent job. They have an art class, physical fitness training twice a week, and several yoga classes. They have people coming in to present programs such as programs on diabetes or mental health care and stuff like that, or safety in the older age like trips, slips, and falls. They also have groups come in to do small concerts from time to time. We have one scheduled at the end of this month. We had one last month. The last month was a high school group, and they did a wonderful job. This month, there's going to be a guy coming in with a guitar and he's a professional guitarist. We have members here who put on their own little groups. They have card games, bingo, Mahjong, and Scrabble games going on. They're looking into possibly doing some other educational-type activities. So, there is a fairly diverse amount of things that go on. Participation rates are a little smaller than I had hoped, but there's a decent amount of people who participate in them. The facilities are a little more than 20 years old and they have some signs of wear, but every time a resident leaves, they paint the empty apartment and get it ready for the next resident. They come in and they change all the carpets in here. They make it nice for somebody moving in. I love my apartment. It's great. I go to some of the meetings and classes and stuff that they have and I participate in the exercise almost daily, and the art class for two hours once every two weeks. Sometimes I wish that was a little bit more frequently, but then again, I've got other activities that I do. I'm quite happy to be here and the more I find out about some of the others that I have on my list, this one seems to be creeping up. It's a good value for the money.