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CARING STARS WINNER
601 N. Main St., Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
4.4
(12 reviews)
"We have chosen Spring Oak Assisted Living of Forked River for my father. We took him there to see it and he liked it. He felt he was walking into a very plush hotel. He was happy that he was able to have his choice of room once he had his assessment. He was able to get a one-bedroom room, which we can set up his own way. Whatever we need to do to the room, we're allowed to do it. We're allowed to paint it, and we're allowed to put new doors in. Whatever we want to do. He can bring his own furniture. We like that. They have activities, but they don't force him into the activities. If he doesn't want to do it, then they just let him stay in his room, which was a good thing because he's not very sociable at this point right now. Maybe once he gets comfortable. We're hoping to see like a total 180 in him as far as socializing. It has three floors. The first floor was the assisted living, the second floor was for memory care, which is where my father's going to be going, and then the third floor was like past memory care, which was like really heavy-duty daily care. We were glad that he was going to be going on the second floor because he can pretty much come and go as he pleases, and he has a lot of freedom. This is what we're being told once he gets in there and hopefully that will all remain true. We saw both assisted living and memory care, and they were both very clean and very organized. We got a chance to look at some of the residents. They were very clean, they looked very happy, and it didn't seem like anybody was grumpy. Everybody was sociable. Even some of the residents were greeting my dad as he was getting pushed through in his wheelchair, so it was nice to see. It just looked very good. The main thing for us was we didn't want him being forced into socializing or forced into being in a room where there is a lot of stuff going on, like people are talking, there's music playing, and the TV's on, he doesn't like all of that. We wanted to make sure he wasn't going to be pressured into being in an atmosphere like that, so that's what we like about Spring Oaks. Everybody was very informative. They answered every question I had. They even answered some questions that I didn't know I was going to have. Everybody seemed knowledgeable of what was going on, who did what, and how things were handled as far as medications. This was a pleasant experience for sure. The layout was very simple and easy for residents to move around, and there was plenty of space. The hallways were wide enough where two or three people could pass by each other and they're not going to be like bumping into each other. It's a very open space, and that was good."
$5,000
