Poet's Walk San Antonio

What a wonderful place for my mom! She was the first resident in this new and beautiful facility. I can't say enough great things about the wonderful staff, starting at the top with the director, Wendy. Everyone is so kind and caring, such a huge difference compared to the facility that I moved her from. My mom is in her forever home! Thank you!

We were quite impressed with Poet's Walk San Antonio. 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.