Clinton Commons

Gloria

My mom is at Clinton Commons. She has been there for three and a half years now. It's very clean. Everybody has their own apartment. If you want to come down for a meal, you can. You pay per meal that you come down for. They give you a menu ahead of time, and you can choose if you want to come down or not. And they also have all a carte things like hamburgers, grilled cheese, and soup and all that stuff that you can get. They have limited entertainment just because of COVID going around. They have exercise and bingo four days a week. They have a coffee hour one day a week. When COVID is not around, they have movies on Saturdays. Everybody is super nice. The food is very good. Almost all are homemade. They have Bible studies. They have puzzles in different places in the building that you can work on. There are several lounges that different people meet in and visit.

Kimberly

My mother is in Clinton Commons and she is living on her own there. She is on a month-to-month rental there. I've just gone into the front door and gone up to her apartment. What I've seen was very nice. Her apartment is large and it's very clean and very nice. I don't have any complaints about it. The residents are friendly enough. It's just I don't know that it's going to meet her needs for long. We just have to wait and see on that, but it does seem to be a nice place. I can't speak about the dining hall or the meals because I've never been down there. Usually, when I go, she just wants to take off and go do something. We kind of eat out the front door and that's what we do. She has a two-bedroom apartment, with one bath, a living room, a small dining area, and a full kitchen. It's a very nice-sized apartment for one person and a cat. Her cat is with her. There are some activities, but I don't know what they are. She's not participating in those. She has mentioned the bingo, but she hasn't gone down to do anything. They have a beauty salon and she has used that. There's a pond and there's a cement path around the pond they can walk around. She's using a walker, so she can easily walk outside and around the pond and people have dogs and they walk, so it's a nice outdoor walking area, but it's outside, not covered or anything. I've only interacted with one person and she had a cleaning cart. She was friendly, but I didn't need anything or ask for any help. The building is nice. You walk in the front door and there's a coffee service. They have a carafe with hot water, coffee, and decaf. Some people bring down baked goods or somebody will deliver cupcakes from someplace. They can walk down there and get coffee and a snack if they want. I've seen that multiple times, which to me seems real nice. I've seen residents sitting around in that area having coffee and visiting with each other. They're always very chatty when somebody comes in the front door. They greet us. It seems to me that people there are very happy. It has a real overall positive feeling. There is a washer and dryer in the apartment that came with it, too.