Springwood of Hudson

Susan

I am a current resident of Springwood of Hudson. I've only been here a couple of months. I was told about all the different activities they provide here, so I checked it out and here I am. I was reluctant to come over here. I'm 76 years old. I'm healthy but my husband died, and so I was feeling a little insecure. As soon as I came over, the manager here, Tammy, was just so welcoming and so helpful in showing me around everything, that I was hooked right away. She was great at answering all my questions and making me feel like this was the right place for me. It's not an old folks' home. Tammy does all kinds of activities with us, takes us to special field trips to different places. We have activities here in the big social area. Everybody here as well as the maintenance people are incredible, everybody does a really nice job, and everybody's friendly. This apartment is perfect for me. It is a large two-bedroom, two-bath, with a little balcony porch. There is an indoor parking area, which is nice, especially in the wintertime, to be able to park your car. It's really a lovely facility. The other thing that I really like about it is we back onto a lake and a golf course. I have the woods in front of me right now. As the leaves fall, then I'll see more of the lake and the golf course. You're not looking out at a bunch of other buildings. They do not provide meals. This is an independent apartment, so you get your own food, but twice a month they provide a meal like a breakfast. We have a breakfast for the community. There is a retirement home right next door, so we can go right over there for eight meals a month for free. On the 4th of July, we had a party and a big barbecue. This past weekend, we had another cookout and big party. They provide those kinds of things. They provide games, card games, and bingo. It's fun, we laugh and have a good time. Nobody gets upset or anything like that. Sometimes we go on a shopping trip or sometimes Tammy will take us to a nice restaurant someplace. We sign up for those things. Tammy will drive the little Danbury bus and provide transportation for us. We also have crafts. Several of the ladies here like to provide different crafts to teach us, hat making and some of the other things. Tammy does crafts with us as well. We've done some painting activities and some simple crafty things. We have something planned every day. Tomorrow, they are supposed to take a pontoon boat ride on one of the lakes. They have a men's breakfast. We have an exercise class once a week. They also have movies on Saturday nights. We have a big activity room which would also be where we have our meals and we play the games and do our different activities, but they have one of those big screen TVs and they'll put on Netflix and movies. They provide electricity, which is in your heating and air-conditioning. You have to pay for your own internet, but they provide the cable. I've lived in regular apartments before and this is very good. I'm getting the bang for my buck.