Cogir Senior Living

Due to a rather quick decline in Mother's health, we needed to have to her leave her independent living residence and go into respite care so that she could regain her strength. That gave us the opportunity to actually have her stay at two different assisted living residences for two weeks each and do a compare/contrast in regard to the food, caregiving, etc. Though she began to regain her strength, I was not at all pleased with the first asst'd. care residence; had she moved in, she would have had a nicer apt. at a lower cost, but she was going to be vastly overcharged for her service plan. She agreed to then go to Redwood Heights and after 3 days, decided that it was the place for her (if we were going to "force" her to go into asst'd. living). Unfortunately she fell & broke her hip after being there just 6 nights; no fault of theirs, that's for sure! Five + weeks later after surgery and rehab, she returned and moved into her studio apt. I wanted to wait to write this review until after she had completed her initial 30-day service plan and revisited her needs/wants. Mike Burdick, the executive director, did an excellent job of conducting the meeting and Mother was pleased with the outcome. Now that she's gotten used to the services provided for her, she's very comfortable with where she is, especially appreciating the medication administration, assistance with showering & dressing and personal laundry services. She feels that she's able to still maintain a good portion of her independence though living in an assisted living residence. She's especially appreciative of the Resident Assistants' friendliness and aid.

This was a great place -loved the independent living option and option to transfer to Assisted LV later. Am hearing that that process is not as smooth as it appears. But great location in terms of diversity , activities, rations etc.

I enjoyed the tour of the facilities. The studio was quite small and more expensive than the other two I visited. It was clean and inviting with quite a few amenities.

It's a nice facility but I didn't like it as an option for my mom. It looks pretty but they had no care as far as what she would need for her dementia. They were saying they would have the care but they didn't.

I'm not there anymore. It was okay. They had a bunch of activities like exercise and bingo - just the normal things they have at a retirement center. The food was okay. The had transportation and housekeeping once a week. They were friendly. I wish I would have stayed.

The Montecito was very nice, but we just didn't feel like we would have had the space that we needed. The rooms were very small. The staff was friendly though, and answered any questions that we may have had. I would have moved in if the space wasn't an issue.

The facility is beautiful, people were especially nice, but having to move when assistance becomes necessary for only half a couple is not acceptable.

Everything is fine. My mother is very happy there. She's in assisted living and the care is fine.

The cost differs from one bedroom to two so it could be from about $2800 to $4200 a month and that price includes meals, which are good. My mother-in-law doesn’t participate in them much, but there are activities available to her if she wanted to participate. They have all kinds of things going on.

They were nice. The reason we didn’t pick them was they didn't have any bedroom units available, which is what I was looking for. They only had studios.

Very pretty, lots of trees, friendly staff.

Showed us around the facililty & introduced us to Anita their nurse.

We kind of got messed up on the room we wanted and it's funny because I would say this was the only place I wanted mom to go because of the layout, it was better. Looking down, when you come down Pickett Rd., it looks like a hotel, the room we wanted was overlooking the pond, but the girl rented it out while we were deciding, but it probably wouldn't have made a lick of difference anyways.

It just seems like we didn't' get much understanding about the situation. It was just too much money and he only stayed there one month. It was on the 3rd that we put in his notice but since it wasn't on the first we had to pay for the whole next month that he wasn't there. We moved him out because he wanted to get out of there. He didn't like the people there. I think it was the other residents he didn't like. They were in the different frame of mind that he is - he's a loner. He just didn't mix. It was just a personality conflict - it wasn't their fault.

I do thing it's less expensive but I'm in Redland so when I go to my office in Modesto, the other community I was considering was more convenient for me to pick my parents up. This place is quite a ways off the freeway. I would dread having to go all the way to pick them up and I wouldn't go visit as often. The lady was very nice and very helpful. It's just that for me and my parents I felt the other location was better.

I liked it, but they didn't have a lock down, the staff seemed to be real nice and I liked the way it looked but it didn't have what he needed. It was nice and it was way more expensive, about 2,000 more than Sping Arbor

These past two weeks it's been good, two days ago the med tech somehow didn't show up so the two floors didn't get medication until late. I asked them what happened and they said she didn't come in. They have a new girl, poor girl, Kimmy, they put everything on her. It's very clean, the food is good, they have lots of activities, they try their best. Last week they had an indian dance with indian food and they bring someone in to play the piano. He's at a level four plus they give him a little bit of a discount because he was in WWII plus he gets long term care so that helps.

My aunt was there when it was still Merrill Gardens and I really liked it she had to move because she couldn't be in independent living anymore. They were changing hands at the time and I know some people were not happy with that. I liked it. It was a small, intimate place.

My brother Jim and I really like the tour given to us. We were given very good information to how we can approach our mother's future in a care facility. Ther are steps we need to take before we can place her in a home.

They have one nurse but they have could use one more. Some insurance companies won't cover this community. I really like the amenities and what they have here. I really like the looks and smells of the community, it doesn't look or smells like an old people community. The rooms are very nice and spacious. The general location is very convenient for our family; it is right off the freeway and located in close proximity to restaurants and shopping plazas. They could use more parking but overall we are pleased with them.