Independent Living Communities in Charleston, WV

"We looked at the memory care and assisted living at Harmony at Southridge for my mom. It looks like a pleasant place to live. The rooms were nice. The thing I liked about the memory care is that the rooms were small, but we were assured that they would be spending a lot of time, and encourage them to spend a lot of time outside of their rooms in the common areas, and so that expands her living area and contact with other people. The rooms in some of the other facilities that we've seen are bigger than those rooms, but my mother currently spends almost all of her time in her room, and that's why I say the common areas which expand her living space make it more pleasant, because you're interacting with other people. That is what was attractive to me and to my sister. We only saw our tour person and didn't really talk to other staff, but she was very pleasant, informative, and personable. She told us that she would get back to us with answers to certain questions, and she followed through with that. It looked very clean, I didn't see any maintenance people, and I didn't see anything broken. It looked very nice. They offered activities, a movie theater, a pub, a beauty shop, bingo place, and other areas where they could involve themselves, maybe with people who have similar interests. It's hard to do when you have a memory issue, but nevertheless."

"Mom moved to Rolling Meadows Place. It is a nice place. Their two-bedroom is reasonably priced and she could bring her cat. She loves her accommodation. They have a cafeteria or they could bring the food to you. They also have a rec room and a library."

"My mother is in Edgewood Summit. I like that community because it provided all forms of care. It has assisted living, memory care, and a skilled nursing facility as well. It's all right there. They have two levels of care above assisted living, and she's at the highest level of care. The quality of the food is excellent and they have a lot of different choices. They always have soup and different choices of salad. They always have protein or a main course, vegetables, and potatoes and you choose your type of potato. You choose everything. They have desserts and it's very good. I've eaten there a couple of times. We had a family dinner there and we had the fillet and it was excellent. They have an exercise class every morning. They have Sittercise, a cardio drum, and several different exercise classes. They had crafts, bingo, they have people come, musicians, and had a Kentucky Derby party and they all decorated hats for the Kentucky Derby. She also gets some cognitive therapy and some physical therapy and some occupational therapy privately. The staff is fabulous. They also do cornhole every day and they have singalongs and things like that. They have a church. They have a lot of different things going on. It is expensive."