Brickstone at St Johns

Nancy

Brickstone at St Johns is very nice. It's a smaller community. They're more intimate. They're more of a family-oriented community as opposed to a facility that is high rise and has 100 or more persons living in their apartments. Each apartment is differently designed. Some of them are two bedrooms, and some of them are three-bedroom-two baths. They also have single-family villas with fireplaces and things like that. It's a completely different environment. They have more of the apartment living concept and they also have a single villa, which is first-floor single ranch-style living. The staff is very nice. They're very professional and very attentive. It's more on a very close-knit family orientation between the residents and the staff.

Julia

Brickstone is a wonderful community, very high end and reasonably new. It does not provide meals so you have to go to a restaurant to get meals or you have to cook your own, so it's really made for an active living community. It has high-end and very well-appointed apartments. The staff was very nice. One thing that I saw that I appreciated was there were a lot of people out walking and smiling happily and the person I was with knew the name of everybody we saw and talked to them. It's very, very impressive. I have seen other places where people are not smiling all the time but in this place, they are, both the residents and staff. It's a very warm, comforting community. They have a variety of apartments, and they also have separate cottages. I did not see the cottages except from the outside though. They have a lot going on. There's a swimming pool, which the residents of the other St. John's facilities can go over and use. They use the swimming pool also for physical therapy as well as swimming. They have shuttle services that come in, they have buses to send residents to shopping and to the symphony and plays. They have a well-organized set of activities. Brickstone is really nice, but it's also expensive.