Atria Forest Hills

My mother moved into Atria Forest Hills. She doesn't have any additional needs. They don't do any showering for her, give her medications, or anything. She's in independent living. The people are so kind and so helpful. They know all of their residents. It is clean and pristine. Everything is new and comfortable. The care is phenomenal. They check in on her all the time. She has choices for meals. They have lots of activities. She's been to about six activities since Saturday, where she never went to anywhere before. It's like starting a new life for her or reverse of life because she's been living alone in a three-story house. She wasn't able to get out or see anybody. Her life has changed to where she cares about what she looks like and is happy to meet and talk to people. I could not be happier. This place is a God sent and the people that work there. They are perfect. They are fabulous. It's a little expensive, but well worth it.

I'm in Atria Forest Hills. It took a while to adjust to being in senior living, but after a while it became all I hoped it would be. It fulfills all of my needs that they can in a good way. I am happy with the services. I am very happy with the staff and the people that I deal with. I think that everything that was promised to me in terms of care, of medical attention, of cleaning and maintenance, of food, all of that are excellent. The issues I had in the beginning had to do more with an adjustment to the idea of being in senior living, getting used to the idea that I really need help in caring for myself. I wasn't as fully independent and that took a while. What helped is the staff and actually other residents. It creates a real feeling of community among the residents themselves and among the residents and the staff. I know all the staff whom I deal with, I know their names, and they know my name. They greet me when I see them. We can chat and things like that. It really relieves a feeling of isolation that comes with old age. My room has wide windows that overlook a very nice neighborhood, Flushing Meadow Park which has a lake, and I have a view of the Queens Zoo, a museum and other things. There is a playground right across the street attached to a school. There are always people in that, so that's good. It's mainly a residential area. There are beautiful homes in the area. It's safe, and it's fairly easy to get around. We have a driver who will take us within seven miles of the facility. If we need further, they will arrange for that, too. Covid was a very hard time. We were in quarantine for probably six months or so and we're confined to our rooms. We had very limited contact with staff and no contact with other residents. That was not a fun experience. Ordinarily, there is a wide range of activities here. There are games and things like that if you are interested. There are movies every day, there are learning activities, and a person comes in once a week to lead us in a session on current affairs, that's very popular, another in which we debate current topics. There's no swimming or things like that. There are two morning sessions of physical fitness that are very popular by a staff. From experience, they are more than the equivalent of what you would get if you went to physical therapy. It's at least a half hour or more of activities for different parts of your body. It's well attended and helpful. My only concern is not something that they have control over, it's expensive. It's in the high price range for what it offers. Eventually, that may cause me to have to leave here because the price goes up a certain percentage every year. That's really my only complaint about it. As a facility, as a residence, in terms of what it's offering, I don't have any complaints.

I went to Atria Forest Hills. The rooms were too small, and they didn't have a kitchen. It made me feel like a resident in a facility, and it didn't seem like a real apartment. It seemed like I was not an adult anymore. The staff was wonderful. The food was good. The place is attractive and attractively set up given the area, which is a city area and not a country (not even the suburbs really). However, I felt like I was becoming a dwarf if I move in there. It really didn't give the feeling of being spacious. You felt cramped there.

Beautiful community. Very clean and the residents seemed happy and well taken care of. The staff was very welcoming and they all were smiling. I can't wait for my dad to move in.