CARING STARS WINNER
646 Canyon Road, Novato, CA 94947
4.5
(19 reviews)
"Deer Park Retirement Community was the bomb. We toured it and it was so pretty. It was like living on top of a mountain. It was gorgeous. There were people hopping and bopping around. It just had more of an intellectual/cultural feel. It seemed like the people there were a little more cognizant and a little bit more active. Everybody I saw was walking around or they had their little sweatpants on, and they were going to yoga, or they were going to do something. It was a little bit more of a bustling, hustling place. They had a pool table room, shuffleboard, and a movie theater room. They had all these little rooms. They have this beautiful library, too. And the view was over the top. It was absolutely breathtaking and gorgeous. The landscaping was over the top. It had little meditation fountains. If I am honest to goodness sincere, if my father had more money and we made more money, I would have put him there in a heartbeat, simply for the fact that it was closer to the house. I live in Santa Rosa, so Novato is 19 minutes. If there was an emergency, or just going to visit with my father, Novato was closer. That made another difference. My father is very bright. He has some physical disabilities, but he's cognitively super smart. Everybody there just seemed like they were moving and grooving, and I think some people are just a little bit more mentally on the ball. But my father's also very good just going in his room after dinner, reading a book, and watching sports, and that's what he likes to do. He's got a walker, so he can't really play pool or do shuffleboard. So, all of the amenities were really pretty, but it came down to what could my father utilize for that extra money, and those were things that didn't really matter. He can't stand on a walker and shoot pool."
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