"My husband moved to Riverton Enhanced Senior Living. The facility has been newly renovated and every room is newly painted. They could furnish what they furnish and then you can bring whatever you want. They furnished a bed, a nightstand, a chair, a chest of drawers, and the bedroom for you. Then out in the living area, you can furnish your own chairs, like my husband has a lift chair. So, we put our own things in there for him.
There's a full bathroom and a huge closet in the bedroom. There's a jacket closet outside the kitchen, and the kitchen is fully functional if you want it to be. We don't have the stove turned on for my husband, but he has a microwave. He has kitchen cabinets, a sink, a regular size refrigerator, and a nice shelf in between that he can have his medicines on. It's very comfortable there and there's a balcony that goes the length of his two rooms across the living room and the bedroom. There's no exit to the bedroom. Just outside the living room, there's a sliding door.
The open areas are beautifully furnished. They have a craft room down on the first floor. They have a manager for the activities and he's very creative. They do a lot of neat things. He has a devotion period one day and he has a book club. The craft room is big. Their dining room is lovely. It looks like a dining room in a restaurant. The food's very good. I've eaten with my husband several times. I pay to eat there, which is $6.50.
They do his laundry and clean the apartment every other week. They came in in the morning and helped him get dressed because he has trouble getting his shoes on and his socks. At night, they come up and help him into his pajamas, but if he needs anything, he has a bell around his neck. He just has to press it and they'll come and see what the problem is.
He has a nice-sized apartment. It has a single bed and a nice big blue upholstered chair in. He has his one walker in there that he only uses every now and then. Out in the living room, he has a futon, two small rocking chairs, and a table that sits against the wall, but you can open it up and make it a big table. We've used it to do a puzzle, but otherwise, it's just usually against the wall. It looks like a desk. It's very, very accommodating.
The staff is very good. Sometimes my husband may have to wait a little bit because he's not the only one there when he rings the bell, so sometimes he gets impatient, but that's not because they don't care. They have a lot of people to take care of. I'm very happy with it. If there's anything that we're not happy with, I would talk to the manager and they take care of it. There's no problem talking to her. The people that work there are very, very friendly. My husband has a person who comes up and gives him some physical therapy in his chair. Then they sometimes take him down into the physical therapy room and give him some things to do.
The activity gentleman's name is Micah. Every floor has a common area and an atrium, and he changes which floor he has his little get-togethers on but you're welcomed on all floors. They always get to go right there. I think they're very congenial.
Micah talked to my husband when he got there to see what his interests were, and he got a few of the veterans together just to sit and talk among each other one day, which I'm sure was great for all of them. I thought that was a neat thing to do. I think on a Friday, he told me that they have musicians come in. Micah himself will play the piano occasionally if there are a lot of people sitting around on the first floor. They have couches and chairs down there because sometimes the people come down to wait there and go to lunch, dinner, or breakfast. They have people that come in and play other instruments. I didn't know that until this week, and that might be just something that happens occasionally, too, but he has different activities for them, and he tries to talk to everybody to see what they're interested in.
It's very easy to get around. There's also a social area on every floor where the people can come out of their apartments and just sit there and relax and talk unless Micah is having one of his meetings there. It's very well taken care of. I would prefer that it costs less than it is, but I like what my husband gets for the money. I looked at quite a few other places and it's kind of at the upper level of pricing and you can tell the difference when you go into the places when it's cheaper. It just isn't as nice."
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