"I will be moving into Elison Senior Living Community of Pinecrest. They offer a hot breakfast, unfortunately, it's only served from 7 am to 9 am, but a breakfast anyway. Then whatever you want to call it, from 12 PM until 4 PM or 5 PM, they have lunch or dinner. There's a choice of two or three soups, a couple of salads, and two or three entrees. They do the sheets and the towels. eats in the towers. We're responsible for our own laundry, but they have free washers and dryers. There's a small but sufficient storage room where we can put superfluous things. The atmosphere was very pleasant the day we came there. They did have 40 Christmas trees in the lobby or the main recreation area. It's well-maintained. The staff seems to be in very good disposition all the time. It's hard to believe that we're going to be one of those old folks living there, but we're making decisions while we still can.
It was a toss-up between them and another facility. They just offered us a better introductory offer of freezing the cost for two years, giving us one month of free rent. We had to make a decision very quickly to take advantage of that, but we did. I don't think we're going to have any regrets except leaving more stuff behind than we're taking, but that's the way it goes.
We're going to independent living, but you can't stay in the same apartment if you transition to assisted care. But hopefully, we'll be okay for a few years. After that, they also have a level of memory care, so we can stay in the same facility and make those lateral moves once we get in.
That's another thing we liked about this place. It has an adequate galley-type kitchen, which would have passed through into the main room so that if you had a table in front of the window there, you could move food from there into the eating area. The bathroom was well maintained, they rehabbed the bathroom and put a fresh coat of paint on it. That's another thing, the service they have is they'll also clean the bathroom and the kitchen area. We're responsible for vacuuming the floors.
It has a regular-sized refrigerator, not gigantic but more than the dormer, and also with an icemaker which was an added perk. The stove is a little four-burner stove, and a nice microwave suspended above it. It's an adequate kitchen for sure.
It also has a dishwasher, which I probably won't use, but at any rate, it's there. The washer and dryer are in a laundry room, separate of course from the apartment. It's all on one floor, everything is on the same level. You don't have to go up and down the steps. It's very convenient.
The tour was very well done. The lady who took us through was relatively new and she was doubly careful. But it was a good presentation, and everybody that we met on staff was upbeat, positive, and with a good disposition. The staff, she did really well, her name's Jo.
We ate there on two separate days, and the food is like being in a restaurant. You come in, and you sit down at a table with a full-place setting. They bring you a menu, and you choose from the menu. They bring you the soup and the salad first, and then the entrees. There's always a dessert. What's cool is, if you can't eat it all, you can take whatever is leftover up to your apartment.
The facility was immaculate. They also have a heated swimming pool, exercise classes, and a crafts facility. The only thing that's hard to get used to is, so many people on walkers, and we haven't gotten there yet. But we'll be in good company while we do. Anyway, no complaints."
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