2 Communities in Salem, Virginia

Joan

I love it. I think it's great. It has helped my mother quite a bit. The staff members are all very nice, caring, and very helpful. We got the smallest apartment to start out with and she thinks it's too small, but I'm eventually gonna move her to a bigger one. Other than that, it's nice. I'm happy with the place. She has all kinds of therapy. They have this nice little patio they can go sit on if the weather is nice enough. They're up on a hill with beautiful views. She doesn't like the food. She just likes old country food. She thinks it's a little too fancy, and she has some problems with not having any bottom teeth, so she has trouble eating. She doesn't like the fact that they're very careful on how much sodium she gets, but that's for her own health. She's supposed to be low sodium. She thinks some things taste a little bad because it doesn't have any salt in it, but that's just the fact of life that she has to live with. She hasn't signed up for any of the activities yet. With the Covid, they're not doing a lot. They have little things inside the place, like one day they had food set up and all kinds of little snacks for them to have between the meals, but she didn't partake of that. They have bus rides where they can take them out, but she hasn't tried that yet. They have introduced her to a few of the other residents, which has helped, too, because she's slowly beginning to make some friends.

Del

I thought the tour was good. They have nice apartments that are very adequate, very clean and very spacious. They have good facilities and good amenities. They have a very good library also. The lunch was good. I met a couple of the staff members. They were good too.