Highview Hills

My husband and I currently live in a 2 bedroom Independent apartment. He attends Memory Care 4 - 6 hours per day. I have dealt with many problems on his behalf including the administration of his eye medication. Currently, the staff "sets up" all his medication, and I handle the administration of all medication to assure his safety. Highview Hills in Lakeville is an attractive building, and our apartment is very nice. Although we have a nice kitchen, cooking had become a problem for me before we moved, and I looked forward to having meals prepared for us. Now that we are here, we face the daily reality of commercially prepared meals including french fries, potato chips, tater tots and other potato types on a regular basis. For people on low sodium (or no sodium) diets, the food served here is less than desireable. The featured meat for Easter Sunday dinner is 'carved ham'. We are required to pay extra for this Easter dinner. There will be a 'salad'. One single salad which is actually a pretty big deal because salads are not a high priority on the regular menu. Vegetables are few and very bland. Fruit is very rare. There is a Parfait -- yogurt dessert which includes a few berries on the Sunday menu. Some days, there is a fruit pie offered for dessert. The pie pieces are very small and contain very little fruit. How may daily servings of fruit are recommended for a healthy diet. How many daily servings of vegetables are recommended for a health diet? Highview Hills falls far short of the recommended fruit and vegetable servings. There is a very limited menu from which to order with few vegetable choices included. Most of the staff is friendly and do a really good job. There are planned activities every day. Currently, there is no Activity Director on staff. There is a Chaplain who provides worship and bible study on certain days.

Walker Methodist has a good program and building. My husband has Parkinson’s, and they have a Parkinson’s program. It’s very nice. They have a two-bedroom with a little den and the square footage is 1,200. They keep everybody really busy and have lots of dinners and going out to grocery stores and to other things in the community. We have eaten there several times as guests, and it’s very good.

Walker Methodist wants about $8,000 a month to live there. It's a very deluxe operation, but we can't afford to go there. We don't care that much about it. It has everything. They showed me through there and they're very nice people. It's a lot of people living in one building, but everything is very neat. A very big building. It's spacious and it's all nicely decorated. It's a very nice looking place. It's as good as it can get. When you go for breakfast, they give you a big fancy menu and you get waited on. You could get drinks before breakfast, too. It's like living in some high class hotel on the ocean. It's just very high class. The dining room is very beautiful. They have a program of activities. They have a lot going on there all the time.