Arcadia Retirement Residence

We've been living in Arcadia Retirement Residence for two weeks now. We really enjoy it and we like it very much. They have a gym, swimming pool, exercise classes all day long, and buffet dining. We have a large 1-bedroom apartment with 1.5 baths. The staff is perfect and very helpful.

Arcadia was very nice. I liked the way they set up the financing and that everything was in one place. The staff was very nice, efficient, and professional.

The concept of Arcadia really appealed to us. It's one where you age in place, and we really like that concept. One of the big issues for most people is whether they can afford it for the remainder of their life, and they facilitate that. Even though the buy-in price is rather high, when you compare it against a nursing home and the annual cost, it's very comparable. The facility was older though, and it didn't have the same ambience as the other place we visited. Also, there were certain policies that went against my principles, and they were a little too rigid. For me, I wouldn't want to be in that particular facility, but somebody else would be happy with abiding by those kinds of policies. Their clientele was more academic, i.e., the CEOs.