Pacifica Senior Living

I am in the process of moving my mother into this community from another close by. In comparison, I am thoroughly impressed! At the last community, many things fell through the cracks, but here, the attentiveness of the staff shines through. They are all very experienced and that shows in their work: they pay close attention to detail and my mother’s specific needs. They are also very accommodating: the original room my mother was going to move in to suddenly became unavailable, but they pulled some strings and made it so that she could move into a similar room at relatively the same cost. I was also very impressed with the amount of activities available. There is a monthly calendar posted with all of the coming activities. They are also very conscious of the wants of each resident. For example, there is a multitude of different religious services available. Overall, I am very impressed with this community, and I cannot wait to have my mother settled in! A great improvement from the last place!

I spent two months at Monte Vista Village visiting a friend and had no idea what to expect. What I found was a pleasant surprise. The grounds were lovely and well cared for, the residents were friendly and interesting, and the food was great. The staff was attentive and always willing to do whatever they could to provide high quality service. Special activities were frequent and fun and included many areas of interest. When it is time to consider a Senior Living community, that would be my first choice. A happy place.

Mom and Dad have found a real home here. The staff was very helpful during the transition. They love the food and we love knowing that they are being well cared for.

We were very impressed by this facility and the sales staff. Mark & David spent a lot of time with us talking about our difficult situation and whether or not it was appropriate for my parents (it was not) and for that we were really appreciative. They recommended another facility (not run by Emeritus) that ended up being a good fit, so they have a lot of credibility with us. We also liked the open campus setting and location was beautiful. It had a very "homey" feel both in the assisted living and memory care units.

I'm a retired navy officer and recently placed my mother at The Arbors. They are amazing; I can't believe the quality of care she is receiving. Tiffany, the Director, went out of her way to make my mother feel welcomed and help her with the transition to assisted living. There are always glitches, but The Arbors quickly addressed them and worked with us to resolve them in the way we wanted. Outstanding! I can't speak highly enough of the care my mother is receiving by the staff. They are friendly and supportive of her and she is happy she's staying at The Arbors.

Staff is VERY attentive, helpful and friendly

They are very clean. The staff is extremely friendly, I would give them a ten. Some of the activities are geared a little towards the older population. The food is quite good. It would be nice to have a swimming pool. We chose them because of the friendliness of the staff, and because we really felt at home, and the apartment was spacious.

They have an exceptionally friendly staff. It’s ten times better than where we had our loved one before. They’ve been able to get my loved one involved in activities. It’s just independent living so you can’t age in place there, but for independent living they are an exceptional value for the money.

It’s a nice, good, and clean facility. The care staff are really nice and they do their best. The food is most of the time good. And just overall my mother-in-law is very happy. It’s a small community with only fifty-eight rooms. There has always been good parking. We haven’t had any issues with laundry services.

It was personnel related. Everyone was very diligent in their work and very attentive to the seniors living there. I would recommend them certainly. There is enough parking. The staff was very good. The staff recently changed at the top and they were really working hard and remodeling much of it. They were putting 100% effort in to making things better. They were doing construction in the offices to make them more efficient.

OVERALL, THE FOOD IS GOOD BUT SOMETIMES, TOO FANCY. WISH WERE MORE ORDINARY. SPHAGETTI AND MEAT SAUCE WOULD BE NICE. MISS SAUCES. PEOPLE ARE WONDERFUL. SERVICES GREAT. STAFF GREAT. LOTS OF ROOM IN OUR APARTMENT. CLUBS ARE FUN.

They are great! There really isn't anything that I would like to see improved or done better, except maybe the price. They were in the same range as everyone else though. My mom chose this community over others because she just liked the feel of it better, the overall atmosphere.

This community is a very comfortable place. It really did feel like home. Everyone was very welcoming. It felt very easy to take my mom there. I was very pleased. I looked for many weeks, at many, many places before we made a decision. I was very satisfied, even though her stay was short

Are they set up to take full care of my mom? Seems like Independent Living, and we need nursing or assisted. I like very much and would like to visit.

Very nice! Everyone was very nice. Patti was amazing. I think we have found a new home for mom! The gift was yummy!!! Thank you so much!

I am living at Bixby Knolls Towers , independent living, in Long Beach, California for almost 4 years. The apartments here are beautiful. There are Studios, 1 bedroom, and 2 bedroom apartments and all of them also have fully equipped kitchens even though they serve 3 meals a day in the main dining room. Lots and lots of closet space. Rent includes linens, towels, toilet paper, etc., basic cable TV, all utilities except phone. Cleaning lady cleans your apartmet once a week, 3 gourmet meals a day in a luxurious dining room. Laundry room on the premises. Car service to doctors appointments, shopping, etc., many activities. If you become disabled and no longer can be independent you can move to the Assisted Living section which is next door to the towers. This really is a very comfortable place to live and the surroundings are beautiful. The people are friendly. The staff is great. I really like it here and I can highly recommend this place.

I really, really liked this place for Mom.

They do an excellent job here overall. The staff are excellent about communicating and staying in touch with families, which I appreciate since I do not live in the same state. It is a nice, clean facility, the staff are friendly, and they attend to all of my loved ones needs. And, although I have no tried it myself, I have heard good things about the food from relatives.

I'm so glad that "A Place for Mom" helped me find The Meridian at Lake San Marcos! I did not know about it and it has turned out to exceed both mine and my mom's expectations. Mom says she feels this is living "a normal living style" versus a typical retirement community. She thinks this is why the residents are so warm and friendly, let alone the terrific staff that learned her name immediately. All of the family love coming to visit her and dine at their fantastic restaurant, where you have a wide selection of menu options and can eat any time the restaurant is open. And it's nice you can actually order a drink - that's really a classy retirement community! The Meridian also turned out to be the best price of all the locations I researched (12 different facilities). It was also important to me that the "Independent Living" buildings were separate from "Assisted Living." At the Meridian, both are beautifully appointed and managed.

The facility is wonderful. Feels more like a resort hotel than a residential living facility. Meals are good. You see a lot of happy residents here. They have numerous activities and there is something for everyone. They even have a doctor on site on Wednesdays. After looking at several other places for my mom this one won hands down. Only complaint is with the marketing department. There are some new people that have not been fully trained so there were some issues on move in such as working cable boxes not provided. Items in model that were not in actual unit we got but were expecting to have. I would suggest asking for a visual inspection of the unit you have on hold. Wait time was reasonable for availability.