Amaran Senior Living

ReviewerFC100724A

My sister has moved into Amaran Senior Living. It's great. We're really lucky that we found it. It's very light. It's not dark. They work kind of Montessori-based. In other words, they have a Montessori school, and it's locally owned by a family that's lived in Albuquerque for a long time. It has both assisted living and memory care. The staff is wonderful. The rooms are really nice. They have two different patios, one upstairs, like on the third floor where she is. They encourage their residents to do a lot of things. They have a lot of activities that they do with them: jewelry making, painting, and they have a garden, which they even use some of the produce they're cooking. It's tended by the older children from the Montessori school, which is next door. They encourage a lot of family to go there and have their food. You can sit there and eat with the residents. They have a really good transportation service to their doctors' appointments. They take them on outings. My sister's in a large studio. It's just really nice. It has a refrigerator, a small microwave, and cabinet spaces. There's a lot of built-in stuff. You don't have to take additional furniture. It has its own washer and dryer. The big apartments have both the stackable washer and dryer. She has housekeeping service weekly, and they do her linens. We just help her with her personal laundry, which is done in her room. They come in pretty much every day and empty her trash, and if she needs anything they'll take care of it. She's in a different level of care where she has to be helped with her medications/where they bring them to her. She's diabetic, but they don't give her her insulin because they can't. They have all kinds of activities. What's really nice about it is they try to even bring the ones from memory care to form a tiny goup with the ones that are in assisted living and do activities together.