3 Independent Living Communities in Murrieta, California

Lana

My parents are in Vineyard Place. It's probably the cleanest, nicest, most beautifully decorated facility overall. It's a brand-new facility and newly built. They really enjoy the little courtyard that they have. They have a mini-golf or putting green, a lot of activities, really good food, and there's a chef who comes in. It's really just top notch. When my mom got in there, she was put up with a female roommate, and when my dad went in he was set up with a male roommate, so they have their own rooms. They have a beauty salon, they had a gardening day where they had little elevated planter boxes, and they have cookie days where they're rolling out or making cookie dough. They have activities for all the holidays, like if it's Valentine's Day they make Valentine's Day cards. For visits, they had to have scheduled appointments ahead of time. The visits are forty-five minutes, and they are in a room that's divided in half by a six-foot table -- they have a series of those. It's like the setup in a board room. At the beginning, they did all of their visiting outdoors and just recently returned to indoors. The staff is very friendly. They have performers come in, they have dancers in costumes, and they have musicians come in; it's really well done. Even though it's expensive, they're still probably $2000 cheaper than anyone else.