Rivertown Ridge

I saw independent and assisted living at Rivertown Ridge. It's new. The apartments were beautiful and up-to-date, had beautiful finishes, and a large kitchen. It was a nice facility. The staff was friendly and welcoming. They offer transportation to local stores and things like that. They don't have as many onsite amenities as some of the other places we looked at though.

We got my parents all moved into Rivertown Ridge. They have been very, very good. They lack only one thing and that's an onsite social worker to help to file of certain things like trying to get Medicaid and everything set up there. And I think for that type of money and for that facility, they should be paying to have someone like that on staff. Other than that, everything else is wonderful. They're saying that they're going to put in shuffleboard court, they're saying they're going to put in a pool table, so they're lacking a few of the amenities that they should probably have, but they're a new building. They got a good selection of food and wonderful staff. Their meals are kind of an odd thing how they do it there. It's like you get up to $14 a day per person (so my mom and dad get $14 a day), and they charge you on the bill, but if you don't eat that day or if you eat in your apartment, then you roll that over for continuous 30 days, so it is kind of like a certain amount allotted each day, and if you don't exceed that, then you don't get charged. They haven't exceeded by any means so far. They have a library, a chapel, a theater, a bar pub, men's groups, and a craft area. They have some different activities, just lacking a couple of the things my dad is used to be doing. There are some things they could do better, but it is what it is.

Rivertown Ridge was a nice place, but I'm not into the position where I need to be looked after. It really wouldn't do me any good to be there. I'm pretty active myself. It was a very clean place, and the staff was very friendly. It's a good layout. They got assisted living on one side, and they have your independent living on the other.

We chose Rivertown Ridge for my brother. It was all enclosed, everything was indoors, and in close proximity. It's a new place. I went over and visited, and the apartments were very nice. It's a pretty large facility, the right hand side they had the assisted living, separate from the independent living, and the section that joins the two apartment complexes is the lobby area, there's two different restaurants, there is a theater there, there's an exercise room, there are community activity rooms, lots of places to meet with people and socialize. It thought that would be great for my brother instead of being isolated somewhere. I would give them a five for the way they got back to me, the interaction with me, and the accommodation of my brother coming in from New Jersey. Everyone on the staff is very gracious, accommodating, and when I first went in there and went to the reception desk, at least five different people introduced themselves to me. It was a different experience than what I had in other places.