Taylor Glen

Sarah

I've been at Taylor Glen for over ten years now. We have a hundred acres, and it's beautifully landscaped. It has an indoor pool, a library, and a post office. We have a bank even that comes one day a week. We have a dining room and then a cafe. We have entertainment that comes in. We have also assisted living, a memory care and even total health care at the other end of the campus, but it's all connected. It's all within the same building. We don't have to go outside to go to those. The biggest minus and it's probably true everywhere, they've had trouble keeping enough employees to take care of everything. Other than that, I feel like we're sort of one big family. People are very friendly and we make good friends. We enjoy eating with different people at dinner. We've just finally got enough housekeepers. They clean the bathrooms and kitchen and just lightly go over the rest of the apartment, but at least they come every week and they finally have enough help there. We had maintenance coming over the last few days. We've had our air-conditioning unit went out. They just hired a new chef and a sous-chef, and they're doing a very nice job. I think we're having more help than we had before. The person that's over the whole independent living here just moved up from another position and she's very personable and tries her best to do things that need correcting. We're very happy to have her. They are getting ready to build probably through the next year some villas and independent houses. They have something brand new for memory. My biggest concern with these people coming in more than the space for them to come down and have all the same things we have now would be enough help to take care of these new people. There's a lot of staff that are really good, but some that are not as good. The management staff is a five-star. The new manager is really trying her best to turn things around. I'm on the food committee and they list things of what we have to say to improve. The food could be a little better but it's much better than it has been in the past. My blood work has been very good and I used to have high cholesterol and my blood pressure fluctuates and all that has improved in the last year. I feel like our food has gotten much better than it was. I'm pretty pleased with it now. You can have your own garden. We have a woodworking shop and crafts rooms. We have an auditorium and a chapel. There's a lot of good things in the facility here. We have a washer and dryer in our room. We don't have to go down the hall to do our clothes and that's a big plus to me. We have quite a few people that come and some that they pay and some that volunteer. They have crafts that they make things for the people down in healthcare. They have a van where they take people out once a week to shop at the grocery store and out eating. They go get apples or take strawberries or just a good variety of things they do on those outings. This is like a buy-in thing. You pay big bucks upfront, but then you sign a contract with them and they agree to take care of you until you die whether you run out of money or not. To me, it's pretty expensive, but in today's value, seeing other facilities like this, we're probably right in line there or maybe less than some.