Hallett Cottages

My mother has been at the Hallett Cottages for a year and four months. It's a small place with 16 rooms. Right now, it's just ladies that live there. The care is wonderful. If anything, they are a little understaffed but manage to do the job. They prepare breakfast for the ladies every morning, then do all the clean up, the laundry, and the dishes. It's like living at home, but these ladies have somebody taking care of them. Meals are brought in for lunch and supper from Heartwood where my father lives because it's only four blocks away. They take very good care of them. She is in the last stage of Alzheimer's, so she is in a Broda chair. All of her care is taken care of, like getting her in and out of bed using a lift system. They bathe her, take her to the toilet, and have made it possible for her to end her life at that facility, which is unusual for a memory care unit. Usually, they would transfer them to a nursing home by this point, but they are doing the care there for her. They take very good care of her, and the nursing staff is good. We've done some rearranging of her medication, and they've been very easy to work with. Also, because it's all ladies, she feels comfortable.