Poet's Walk San Antonio

My mom is here. I know this is because of the pandemic, but my only issue is that if someone wants to see her, they have to supply their email address which I have to supply to the scheduler there. Then they have to email that person with SignUpGenius, and it is is kind of a complicated process. One of her friends wanted to go see her, but was turned away because you must make a reservation 24 hours in advance. I get it is to protect the residents, but it is almost too isolating. They are a very holistic-centered community that is pet friendly, but you can't have a pet there. They have birds and during the week they have a community dog that circulates around. They take a holistic approach to memory care and that they are individually oriented. It's all memory care, so they have a lot more freedom.

Mom moved here. It's well laid out, you can have various levels of memory care, all the staff seems caring, and you can do a number of activities during the day. They encourage the residents to get out and do activities, whether painting a picture, hitting a balloon, or doing puzzles. I was impressed with it. The food is very good, and my mother never complains about it. It had good variants, and they have other alternatives if the residents don't want their given meal.

My mom is here, and it is exceptionally clean. All the rooms are very bright and almost everything is brand new. The activities are very diversified, they are puzzles, games, and social events. The staff has been very good, and their system helps the staff identify the memory care needs of their patients.

We were quite impressed here. I've been getting reports on what kinds of activities he's been doing, and they have a website that I can go to and I can see exactly what his schedule had been. They also take pictures of him during the day and pictures of things going on. They also make great use of technology, so they have a monitoring system in the bedrooms so that if he starts trying to get out of bed, they'd know immediately because of motion detectors in the room. Also, all of the nurses and the aides carry a tablet with them where all of the medications are recorded in the computer immediately. Anything that happens with him gets reported into the tablet immediately, and if a nurse or aide is not really familiar with him, they can look him up and see what sorts of things soothe him so we were very impressed with that. We already knew some of the people who are going to work with him there because we've worked with them before. It's a very nice facility, and the staffing levels were designed to be better. It's a brand new place and the people we knew are people we've had great confidence in before and we already had experience with them and my father really liked them and they seemed to really care about him. It's an exclusive Alzheimer's unit, and one of the things I was impressed by was that they had a lot of materials for them to work with, and these are not just laminated paper cut-outs that the nurses had made but proper manipulatives and puzzles that clearly had been bought purposefully and an investment has been made to stimulate their minds. All patients have an iPod with their favorite music on it, and they do music therapy every day. It's a very homey place, and they've got 2 interior garden spaces that at unlocked all the time where my father can go outside. There are 2 glassed in patios where he can be seen, and he can sit out anytime he wants to. He's still in a locked unit, but it gives him a sense of independence and freedom.