Holiday Middleton

Friend

We currently have my friend in The Jefferson, and he seems to be OK at this point. It's well furnished and has courteous staff, so we're happy with him there. It's a beautiful site. The landscaping is excellent. A shuttle is provided for going to town.

Richard

Everything seems quite good at The Jefferson. My friend is new so he's learning how they operate and what he is allowed and not allowed to do. Everybody's very friendly. They're trying to do what they can to help him when he has questions. It's a positive experience. I've personally been very happy about it. He seems to be getting along well. The only one person that I wasn't totally happy with was their maintenance man who had promised to help set things up and do things and then said, "I can't do that, I'm not supposed to do that." Maybe it was a misunderstanding on my part, but the rest of the staff has been great. The facility seems pretty good. The one thing I was concerned about right from the start is there's only one elevator and it probably could hold four people, but they have it restricted to two people with the virus going on. I don't see how people on the third floor are gonna get out of their if there's an emergency. I looked at other places and this one was the least expensive of the bunch. They're not cheap though. It's a reasonable value given what the cost of going to one of those homes is and what they do.

Jim

I chose The Jefferson because I liked it the first time I visited. It's easy to get into, the staff is very helpful, and the service is good. The have a library, an exercise room with two or three equipment pieces in it, pool table, TV room, barber shop, and so on. The meals are very good. I pretty much live here and go other places. There's a bus that takes people shopping. They also have activities designed for people whoare considerably older than I am. The price is kind of high.

Thomas

The Jefferson is out of town, on the fringes of Middleton, and there were farm lands around it. The staff was fine and friendly. The couple of rooms I saw were reasonable; the larger ones had kitchens, but most of them do not. It's very reasonable.

ReviewerRD12122020g

We're at The Jefferson. It's strictly independent, so we really have no help at all. We get three meals a day, which has been wonderful during the pandemic because they deliver three meals a day right to our apartment. We're so thankful for that. The Jefferson is pretty nice. They have a lot of things that would be offered in any senior community. However, they have very limited transportation. Actually, what we have is, they will take you Monday through Thursday to your medical appointments on a very limited schedule. The bus leaves here at 9:00 a.m., and you have to finish your appointment and be picked up and back here by noon. That's pretty limited. Then in the afternoon, sometimes, they will take you for a very quick trip to some of the nearby grocery stores. I think all of the staff members are caring people. We had lived in several different senior communities in Arizona before our family insisted that we come back here, and in all the ones we lived in Arizona there would be a staff person for whatever the thing was, like we had a person in charge of housekeeping, and we had the same housekeepers. It was always the same person. However, all these people who work here in The Jefferson interchange their duties. One day you may have them in the dining room, and the next day you may have them up doing housekeeping. It is so different from anything we have been used to. Maybe that's the way it is in a lot of places. Some days the food is wonderful. Other days, I just don't eat it, and I will eat something that I have saved from some time before. Food is OK; it's pretty good. My husband thinks it's wonderful. I'm more picky than he is I guess. Activity is quite limited since COVID has set in. Prior to that, and even right now with COVID being as bad as it is, they're trying to have a maximum of ten people at a time for a session of bingo like a couple of times a week. We had bridge in Arizona, but they don't have bridge here. They show movies nearly every night a week. They have a room where they show some movies. Both my husband and I have not been in the best of health since we have been here, so we don't do a lot with the activities. Before, they would have musical entertainment or some local people who are musicians who would come in, which was entertaining. The beauty shop has excellent people in it. Based on the rent that we pay, I don't think we're getting what we're paying for. Also, we have one elevator for all these many residents here, not only one elevator to get the residents from one spot to another, but only one elevator for people moving in or out. They don't even have a freight elevator.

VB

The Jefferson was rather small and much more limited than some of the other places we looked at, although the location was perfect. We were just looking for something with quite a lot more activity. The place was perfectly pleasant, it just wasn't quite what we were looking for. They need to be much bigger to have the resources to meet the standards of some of the other places we saw. Also, when we looked at the menus they offered, it was clear that there wasn't anything in there that I was interested in eating since I'm vegetarian. My husband wasn't impressed either. It was kind of Wisconsin comfort food, like burgers and meatloaf.

Marion

The Jefferson's main area badly needed new carpeting. The man who was showing us around was not dressed professionally. Some of the staff was very obliging to talk to, though. It wasn't really bad, but it wasn't really good. They had a small workout room and had a hairdresser come in. People were friendly, and the chef seemed interesting. They had outings on a little bus. The building itself looked nice on the outside, and they had a big foyer. The grounds looked beautiful.

Magda

The Jefferson is a beautiful place and we enjoyed it very much, but it's not for us. They have nice rooms, but we can't afford it. They had good food though.