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!"

"My mother has moved into Palmilla Senior Living. We looked at 10 facilities, and it was hard finding a good place, and this one just stuck out. We went to go and visit Palmilla Senior Living like four times, and it was the right fit. Palmilla Senior Living is wonderful. They don't just hire anybody. They hire licensed nurses, and they better not have a record. Their employees are wonderful, and they are there for the residents. My mother is paying like $2900, but they have a maid that comes in once a week, and they clean her room. They have meals, and they take them places. It's amazing. My mom was depressed and suicidal, and that went away. She is happy now. She is not sitting there watching TV; she is interacting with everybody. It's what my mom needed. It was hard to get her into a place because she did not want to go, and she just wanted to die, and now she doesn't want to die. She has over 10 friends; she is living her life. Every day, they have an activity. My mom went to movie night and game night. They have dancing and music, and she has gone to every one of them. The residents are so nice. They have emergency necklaces for all of them, free of charge. In case they fall, they hit that button. My mom accidentally hit it two days ago, and they were there within five minutes. Their food is gourmet. I met their chef, and it's good food, like fresh veggies and fresh sauces, and stuff. Everything is made from scratch every day. It's amazing. It's very good for their health. If you have an allergy to something, they will mark it, and they'll make you something special without that. The director is so understanding and works with each family on any concerns. She even talks to the ones who are depressed and scared. She takes her time and talks to them, and ensures that they're in the best of hands. She is wonderful. She helped me with my mother because it was so hard. My mom did not want to move. I'm moving out of state, and she didn't want to. She tried everything to get me to stay, and the director helped me out. She went above and beyond to help me get my mom there and change her mind. The director turned my mom around to live her life, not being depressed and not wanting to die. She made her feel so comfortable. The residents there all love each other. It's like a family there. I would suggest people go there. I met all the nurses there, and they locked it down at night. You have to buzz in and buzz out. They close the doors at 7. They're secure, and that's another thing, because the nurses at night are 24-hour care. They don't let just anybody in. They have the best security."

"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."