Southern Living Assisted Care, LLC

I stayed at Southern Living Assisted Care for four days and it was not a good experience. The facility is dirty. I don’t know if they were just short on staff, but after dinner at night, no one came around and checked on me. I never saw anybody. I had to get out and walk down the hall to find someone to give me my meds before I went to bed. The meals were awful. The rooms were small especially -- they were semi-private and there are 8 women trying to use one bathroom. I just couldn’t stand it there and I told my son to get me out of the place.

When first stepping in to the facility, it is obvious that the people who stay there do not get many visitors. They all immediately approached me and were asking my name and if they could borrow money. Many of the residents are younger, and are in the home because of medical reasons, and the fact that their families cannot take care of them sufficiently. The staff is cordial, but they all seem inattentive or indifferent to the patients' needs. I have visited this particular nursing home many times over the years and I have never had an experience that was different. All of the residents are starved for attention, and the staff seems not to care. The one bright spot was the activities coordinator, who unfortunately is only there a couple hours a day. She seemed interested in what the residents had to say. As for the living conditions, all of the rooms seemed drab, but clean and neat; definitely an older facility.