Life Care Services LLC

It seems to be the right compromise between price, service and requirements for our mother-in-law. She is in assisted living, and the food is great!

Best location and marvelous. We will plan a tour when my aunt can come in from East Texas to visit. The only drawback is it doesn't qualify for military wife supplement, as I understand it, which would make it perfect.

My aunt lived here and she seemed content in the assisted living. They offered a higher level of care if needed so that if one person needed to have more care they could still be together.

I was going to go to the Presidential. They wanted me to buy a bed and a dresser and pay $100 a month for diapers and you brought your own sheets. I didn't want to do that. I liked other than that. Really nice place.

I found the staff helpful and efficient. Since my mother has memory lapses, however, the support literature could be more specific and sequential for her use. She also does not like the telephone system. Over all, my mother seems quite pleased with the facilities, and especially the staff at Bellingham.

Beautiful! lovely staff nice grounds. no spanish speakers!!

The Glenview is a very nice CCRC located in Pelican Bay. The residents and staff appear friendly and welcoming. The community is nicely decorated and is always clean and well maintained. Unlike most CCRCs, the Glenview is a co-op that offers a percentage of equity when the residence is sold. It is a bit pricey, but does offer good value for those who can afford it.

This is a beautiful facility but it's much too large of a community for my mom. She wouldn't be able to get around very well.

Visited. Very beautiful. The Independent living would not work, as the waterway is right outside, and many places to walk to right out the door. Don't think the highrise would be a good fit for Dad.

We've had no problems so far. They have activities like games, trips, going out to eat, shopping, people that come in to speak and other entertainment. So far, things are going well.

They served alcohol with meals and I'm glad that she told me and she was upfront about it because my uncle did not need to be there. It was also quite pricey, it has a reputation for being more upscale over and above the others also.

This place is beautiful but too expensive. I liked the layout of the place, the size of t he rooms, the whole prop was beautiful but it was just out of our price range.

They have a really expensive upfront fee, I think its 10000 upfront. Of course it's just beautiful, but they didn't have any private rooms available. You could go in semi-private and be on a waitlist and they're just really geared for their residents who are already going to be there long term and I was really just looking at the nursing part there. They do have a memory care but it only has 10 rooms I beleive they said.

We were looking for a place for my brother where he could grow and start to become more independent since we had been caring for him at my sister's house and giving him time at his house eventually after a heart attack. Emeritus provided a community where he has access to a lot more activities and people to make friends with but still in a safe place where wouldn't worry about him or need to drive him all kinds of places to receive services or bring them in. They were really accommodating to our specific needs and spent a lot of time listening to us and really hearing what were saying.

Good meeting with Ms. Hart and nice tour. Will keep this facility in mind

very nice facility. Only the laundry room was not in the individual apartments.

Mom didn't want change, but that's what she was forced to deal with. The doctors were talking hospice, but she insisted on rehab. Things went very well as long as she was actually able to participate in rehab, but when things did not go well for her medically, things came to a grinding halt and the nurses were left holding the bag. They realized we had problems, but their hands were tied until they had the doctor's input. I felt the on-staff doctor really dropped the ball and did not provide support or the counsel we needed as we transitioned to hospice. I'm sorry our crisis happened on a Friday afternoon, but that sort of thing can't be worked into a schedule of convenience. I particularly resent that I was summoned to the facility for a one o'clock meeting that did not happen until four, especially when my mother was suffering so much. The crisis had actually begun the night before. My mother had been fighting nausea for several days, but they called me in the middle of the night because she became so sick. I went to sit with her until she was prescribed a medication that eased her enough to sleep. I went home to get some sleep myself and while I was still having coffee, they called me and told me to come back, because the doctor wanted to see me around one. I returned immediately, but the doctor didn't come for several hours after the promised time. Thankfully, we had an exceptionally good relationship with my mother's personal physician and were able to fill the gap that way, but we were unwilling to dump my mother on the emergency room when there was nothing emergency services could offer her. It was apparent that the staff physician did not approve of our choice, so we were on our own. Several of her comments bordered on callousness and we didn't need that with the difficult decision we were faced with. Because it took her until five o'clock to give us her analysis, it was after five before I called hospice and my mother did not get any relief until almost nine pm. Had I not already done the paperwork "just in case", it might have been the next day. The next three days were very difficult. Hospice sent round the clock nurses and the floor nurses were very kind and helpful, but we stuck out like a sore thumb, because we weren't on the "right floor." The floor we were on was not staffed or equipped to deal with our situation and we were reminded almost hourly that we were on a "recovery floor, not a nursing floor." I felt like we were totally in the way, but since the social worker wasn't there on weekends, that's where we had to stay. Monday we were assigned a new room and were told we'd be moving Tuesday morning, but Tuesday's staff was completely out of the loop. Please understand that I was not eager to move my mother in her frail condition, but the 72 hour round the clock hospice care was over and I needed more help than I was getting on the recovery floor. I finally had to get downright mean to make the move happen, but at least when we got to the "right" floor, we started getting help that matched mother's condition. I'd like to emphasize that I am not complaining about the quality of nursing we received. The nurses and aides were stellar, but their hands were tied by management and the on-staff physician. Our discomfort and frustration falls completely in their lap. I'd like to say that ours was an exception to the rule, but I know of another similar situation that happened recently, so this is some systemic flaw. Once we made it to the "right" floor, things changed dramatically for the better. The last few days of my mother's life are marked by the excellent care and attention she received. And not just her, me too. The nurses on the floor took me under their wing and did everything they could to make a difficult time as easy and pampered for me as they could. The recovery floor did an excellent job offering a place to recover and my mother loved the food. The nursing floor did an excellent job of caring for my mother and myself. The three days in-between were an awful experience that I hope no one else has to suffer.

I am very pleased with Foulk Manor North. The staff is helpful and polite. My loved one is happy and is adjusting very well.

We visited here but my mother-in-law never lived here so I don't have that much experience with them. It was nice but very expensive with the buy in.

It's a very slow process, it's better now than it was in the beginning and I think the staff is working on getting them to participate. My loved ones just aren't happy that they're there. They feel like they lost their independence, they don't have their own transportation anymore and they have to follow someone else's rules. It's just going to take time and it has nothing to do with Emeritus. The food could improve according to my parents, but I can't say because I've never eaten there. The staff does communicate a lot and I'm not concerned with my loved ones safety at all but it's just going to take some time, it all depends on the personality and being able to get through the transition period.