Salishan Gracious Retirement Living

My mother has gone to Salishan Gracious Retirement Living. It's independent living, but it's working out very well for her. She's been there for about six weeks now. It's wonderful. The food is great. There are lots of activities. She could keep her dog with her. It's working very well. It's a three-story building with apartments, and my mom has a one-bedroom apartment. It's very nice. Every room has a balcony or a lanai. It's just a very lovely arrangement. The dining room is very pretty. I think something that's very important is there's fresh fruit available all the time. There's coffee and tea available all the time for the residents, and there's soft ice cream self-serve. They can go get ice cream whenever they like. All the staff I have met have been just wonderful. A lot of them have been there for many years including a number of the people and the wait staff. They do a very nice job with the meals as far as serving goes. It's like fine dining. I know there are activities available, and they have transportation. They have an in-house movie theater. It's very lovely. They have constant activities. I don't know what all my mother has participated in to this point.

Salishan Gracious Retirement Living was nice. I saw some people in wheelchairs but most of the residents were walking around. It was more like a retirement community, not so much as an assisted living. It was nice, they had a gym, a movie theater, a library, and a heated pool. They also had a beautiful dining area with chef-cooked meals, nice grounds to walk around, and the woods in the back. The staff was nice, he took me around and answered all my questions.

I'm living at Salishan Gracious, and it's a very pretty, nice place. They serve you food and clean your room once a week. You can use their sheets and they take care of the laundry, or use your own sheets and take care of your laundry. They allow dogs. There's a swimming pool, a fitness room, billiards, cards, and all kinds of games. If there are holidays, the woman here does a fine job at dressing up the place. We have a bus that takes us to our doctor and where we have to go. The only thing that bothers me is the food since I'm Italian and it's all American food. The staff is very good. It's quite expensive, though.

Salishan Gracious Retirement Living is a community that has food. We had a nice lunch there. They have a theater, an activity room where we got free ice cream, they have a bus for trips to doctors' appointments, Wal-Mart, and even some tours. They had someone in there playing live music just before lunchtime, so they have some entertainment like that. They hace a salon for the women and a workshop for the men. They also have a greenhouse and things like that. It's a rather new facility, which is about two years old. The food was good, but it was kind of fancier than I like.

Salishan was excellent, light, and clean. We were impressed. We will be moving next Tuesday. They are very polite and well-behaved. It’s cheaper and very good meals. I have eaten there three or four times; I am very impressed.

My husband and I are very happy here in Salishan Gracious Retirement Living. Everybody is kind, good, and helpful. We feel totally at home. Our room is perfect. It is small, which is what want. We are very happy with the place that we have. The food is excellent. The dining room is big and very nice. I am legally blind, so there are things that I cannot do, but they have bingo cards from the light house for the blind. I play card games because they buy big tiles just so I can play this game. That is how excellent they are. I am perfectly happy because it is more than what I have before. I highly recommend it.

My aunt was at Salishan. She loved it because she had activities there. There were things going on all the time. They had beautiful swimming pool and outdoor gardens. They would bring things in for the residents to do. The days that I was there, they had dancers, piano players, and singers, and they had people doing skits. They had mass every Sunday. They had a movie theater with movies going on every Saturday. There was a place for them to store their car. It was just a really nice, homey place.

My father-in-law is now at Salishan. Very friendly staff, very clean, and very nice apartments -- which I think are spacious enough and have a lot of closet space. The food is very good. They have a pool, a gym, a billiard table, a theater, an activity room, and a little chapel. I was most impressed by the attitude of the residents. They are all very pleased with the place. There are probably nicer places, but I don’t think you will find a better experience.