"My brother is currently in Poet's Walk Henderson. There's a new director, and the increase was very unexpected, especially since it's like almost 10 percent, which is incredibly high. I love this place, it's been four years since they opened. The whole facility is just memory care. Our experience has been wonderful. They are really remarkable during the COVID pandemic shutdown, not one resident and not one employee had COVID. They were so careful, and I would get daily emails on what was going on. They restricted visitations unless someone was sick or something like that, but you could Zoom in so you could do face-to-face on the computer and see your loved one every single day. We got notifications on how everything was going and what they were doing. Anything I had to drop off, they had a whole set up outside the building so that we could drop it off and then someone would come out and say, "OK, who's this for?" And I would tell them that it's for my brother, and they'd immediately sanitize everything and bring it inside the building. The food was wonderful. It's kind of a large building, they have several dining rooms. The staff is wonderful, they have an incredible staff that's been there for years. The only reason I would move him is because of my financial situation. He's had Social Security, and he only brings in so much money. So it's challenging in this kind of a situation when they have to be in memory care, because it's very expensive. Otherwise, I wouldn't even consider moving him, because he's very happy with them.
The doctors come in and they make sure they engage him. Before the pandemic, they had outings and stuff. My brother's not really big on that, but they would always try. So they've been wonderful. He's in a single room with a very large bathroom. It's all very secure for handicap residents, so he just walks into the shower, and then he has a large closet, and then his bed is in there, and he has the TV in there, and a dresser. It's a very spacious room, very pleasant, and he can lock the door. They all have keys of course, the staff does. They have motion sensors in case, God forbid, there's a fall or something, they have all of that in the bathroom, and in the room itself. So they're pretty on top of things. They also have shared rooms, and those rooms are larger, obviously, because two people are in them. And typically there's like a half wall separating the two patients, so there's a bit of privacy. It's not completely opened, and then they would share a bathroom and share the room. Most of the residents are older than my brother, and it's unusual to have someone that young with Alzheimer's. Their facilit is very clean and they have a lovely common area. To get into the facility, you have to be buzzed into the lobby, and then buzzed into the actual facility, so they're very secure. They have several courtyards that are secure courtyards, so folks can go outside when the weather is accommodating. It's just lovely with trees and things. They have a common area where if a patient or resident wants some snacks, they can go there, whether it's something to drink or they want some fruit or a little snack, they've got that covered. They really are very well organized. I went on their website and their website tells me that a private room now begins at $6,300, and that is really high for the area."
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