Park Place Memory Care

Vicki

We placed my mom in a memory care unit at Park Place Memory Care in Platteville. She's been there for about a week now. I would say that the staff are very, very caring and do everything that they possibly can to help her conform to her new setting. She has nothing but good things to say about them. They do a lot of activities and keep the clients there very active. They do exercise every morning, they had a Halloween party yesterday and they gave every client a costume and then they had kids come in and do trick or treating. Mom said that the little kids were just delightful to watch. They also do a lot of movies and a lot of sing-alongs and outings so they keep them very occupied. It's a very clean facility. It was an old hospital that they converted into a care facility, and I feel like she's very safe there. They've got nice big windows in every room, so there's lots of sunlight and normal light from outside, which I feel is very important. The bathrooms were very large and have walk-in showers so it's a very nice place. They have a sheltered gazebo out in the back, where the clients can go and sit and be protected from the Sun. In the summer, they grow strawberries, tomatoes, and flowers. She says the food has been great. She said they've been just one or two meals that she didn't care for. They weren't bad, she just didn't care for them. Other than that, she said the food's fantastic. It's a pretty pricey facility but they say in their brochure that they have the best staff to resident ratio in the state. You must get the care that you need.

Diane

I toured Park Place Assisted Living last June. I liked the memory care unit, but they have no nursing, so he would have to leave the facility and go somewhere else. It was spotless, very secure, they had locked doors, locked rooms if necessary. They showed us menus, and they had choices of entrees for each meal. They had an area where they could go to get snacks and beverages. It seemed to me like their staff to resident ratio was very good. They had a room where there's actual exercise equipment that was easy enough for elderly people to operate. They have these big foam dice, they were playing a number game, but one would roll the dice, and pass the dice to another person. They had some memory games that they were playing. They had an area where they could go outside, they had flowers and they could help with the planting of the flowers in the Spring, watering them, and taking care of them over the summer.