Continuing Care Retirement Communities Communities in Albuquerque, NM

"I visited my mother at Avamere Rehab at Fiesta Park through the window of her room. We talked through our cell phones. They gave her excellent care and excellent support. It was a very helpful place. She said they treated her very well, and they were very attentive and good to her. She didn't have any complaints. I had meetings with her doctor and her case manager, and everybody was very attentive, pleasant, and helpful. She had her own room, and it seemed very nice. It had a hospital bed in it, and she had her things that I brought to her. She said it was clean, and she liked it. She liked the food, and she could have all she wanted to eat and more. She was very happy with that. It was very nice, well designed, looked accessible, looked very pleasant, and was very well run; the people were very responsive."

"By far the largest number of residents at LaVidaLlena are in the Independent Living areas, so it is a very active community. My husband and I moved here in 2015, both fully mobile but seeking a place where we knew we would be taken care of should we need assistance. He died three years ago without ever staying in any of our care units, but we did have help from several nurses and aids right in our apartment during his final illness. They were unfailingly cheerful, competent and professional. For the past year during Covid-19, when we were sheltering for everyone's safety, our Life Enrichment Department went to work immediately designing exercise, lectures and other programs on our in-house TV station and online to keep us sane and happy. Normally there is an abundance of lectures, classes, day trips, exercise classes, chances to attend Popejoy Hall events, too many activities to list. Walking among our beautiful grounds is a favorite pastime which was never curtailed. We are all looking forward to the day soon when the life we knew before 2020 resumes here. Our newly remodeled Health Care Center with private suites looks fabulous, and the new Assisted Living/Memory Care building does as well. There are 40 new, upscale apartments going up in the new 6000 building on north campus, with both these new buildings nearing completion, so the excitement about them is growing. The future looks very bright at La Vida Llena, and I am so happy to live here!"

"Palmilla Senior Living is a vibrant community. They offer aging in place, so you can go from independent living to assisted living and stay in the same place. The food was fine. Nothing special. The facility itself looked like a very nice building. It's an active community. Residents go, intermingle, interact, and play games with each other."

"I will be moving into Fairwinds up in Rio Rancho. I toured it many times. It's good. When you go in, it's really beautifully lit by natural sunlight, because the ceiling is high, and there's a lot of windows. So that's the first thing. You get a great feel for it when you come in. They're just really wonderful. The apartment that I'm going to be in is beautiful. It's a one-bedroom apartment and it's on the first floor with a patio and beautiful views, and then the common areas are so bright. You just feel like you are part of a good community, and there are people to talk to, and there's lots of events. Overall, I'm just extremely excited to be moving there. It's a good place. They also have 24/7 nursing care. I'm a quadriplegic and I just need more attention. However, I'm still going to be allowed to have my private caregivers and nurses come and visit me there, too. And another wonderful, wonderful thing is my wife is going to stay in our house, and it's only ten minutes away, so she will be able to see me every day. And there are just so many good things. I'm very, very pleased. They're so accommodating, and they answered all our questions. I'm extremely pleased with those people. I have tried their food, and it's all very, very high-end, and delicious. There's a bistro, which is open 24/7. Late at night if I decide I want something, I can get food and drink, so it's excellent. The building is beautiful, and they attend to it beautifully. It's absolutely clean and friendly."

"I toured The Neighborhood in Rio Rancho I. You can do aging in place and never have to move to another facility. The staff was very nice. It was very nice. It's a fairly new building. They're one of the very few retirement places that have a swimming pool. I felt like it's a very nice place and that it would be comfortable there. The sizes of the rooms are average, too. The biggest drawback is you have to buy in and the cheapest buy-in is like $300,000. You buy in for $300,000 for a one-bedroom in independent living, and then you pay a monthly rent, for like $3,500, but if you have to go into assisted living or nursing care, your monthly rent does not go up."