Blue Hills Rest Home, Inc

Laura F1

When my mother-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack my father-in-law fell apart and didn't take care of himself. Within a month my father-in-law was in the hospital and his doctor said that my father-in-law should go to an assisted living facility. I had no experience with assisted living facilities or what to look for. One of the nurses in the hospital said that we should use the sniff test. The less it smells like urine the better. The nurse said I should also look at the bathing schedule and try to talk to the other residents. I took the nurses advice and I checked out several facilities. Many facilities had that insitution/hospital smell to them. I also found out that many of the facilities only give baths three days a week to patients, and frequently these baths were occurring in the middle of the night.When I first went into Blue Hills I could tell that it was different. The place didn't smell of urine and the residents seemed very happy. My father-in-law lived at Blue Hills for nine months and he seemed very happy. My father-in-law died of heart disease at the age of 82.