Meadowood Senior Living Lansdale, PA

I'm staying in Meadowood Senior living. Some of the positives about our facility are that we have two pools, a lot of places don't have pools, and we have two of them. I think another is that they've done a lot with the food services where we have three venues for eating and each one has a different menu, and you can go to any one of the three or order from one of the three. I have great neighbors, and I think our location is where, if I wanted to, I could take a train down the city. But we're more out in the country and we have a beautiful view, beautiful campus, and there's many options for whether you want to live in a small house, or an apartment, or the newest buildings on campus called the Grove. I would recommend Meadowood. I think people should to come see it, see the different types of living spaces, and talk to people that are here. Most people that come here just wouldn't go anywhere else. It's a nice area, they provide transportation to stores, to doctor's appointments regularly. We get interesting programs, one of the real features here that made me question whether or not I should leave, was the speakers that we get. We have a committee that will get speakers to come here to speak, and one of the favorites that come a couple of times a year is an archeologist from the University of Pennsylvania. He comes and talks about the mummies, and talks about expeditions he's been on and all of that. It is fascinating, absolutely fascinating. We've had one woman from NASA who came and spoke about the different rovers that have landed on Mars. It's not always the same one, three different Mars rovers have landed on Mars, and she even showed pictures of what Mars looks like from the camera on the rover, and what the sun looks like from Mars. We have different church services, the Jewish service, the Catholic, and the Protestant. Our chaplain is a wonderful woman and she has chapel service for just a medical check in the chapel service on Friday mornings. From our televisions in our apartments, you can see anything that's going on. We have a television channel that gives you all the schedule of things that are going on and what they're having, menus and all that stuff. If you don't feel like going to any of these things, you can see it on your television. They have exercise programs that you can watch on your television, and get up and do the exercises with them, and any program that's going on in the auditorium, if you don't want to go over to the auditorium, you can watch the program right on your television in your apartment, which is very handy. There's some levels, there's independent living, which is where I am, there's the nursing area, and then there is assisted living, and they're building a brand new memory care building, which looks like it's going to be terrific. They have a memory care section now, but they decided to build a whole new memory care area. And they had all of us in on what we would want in if we were to go into memory care about what we thought was important. They do ask us for our opinions on things. I would recommend if anybody is concerned about that, they should look into Meadowood and the plans for the new memory care section. They do take very good care of this place, the cleaning staff and so on do such an excellent job. So I would highly recommend it.

Meadowood Senior Living was amazing. I loved everything about it, except it was a bit more expensive than I would be real comfortable with. It's very rural, and I'd rather be in the city for a while. They had a beautiful 130 acre land with lots of walking trails and absolutely had everything you need. They had a beautiful pool, which I liked because I like to swim. There also was a really nice menu. Someone was just coming out of the dining room and said, "Oh, the food here is really good." The room that we actually went into was pretty small. It was one of the older units, and it was very nice. The newer ones were called "The Grove", which was the newest part of that community; they were absolutely gorgeous. The smallest one was 1,300 square. There were a couple of other ones that were larger, but I wouldn't really need anything larger than that. They had them decorated and appointed very beautifully, and the people were very nice. We talked to some of the residents and staff. Nobody said anything bad about it. I just really love that place. A lot of the things were actually kind of run by the residents. They have committees for the outdoor spaces and creative activities like crafting, woodworking, and gardening. I thought that was kind of neat.