My mother is at Grand Living at Tamaya. She's been doing much, much better there. She's out with people. She's socializing, and there are things for her to do. She goes down to dinner, and they have an excellent menu. I would say it's a four-star restaurant. They have a pool. There's something for you to do all day long. She has PT every day, the nurse comes three times a day to give her, her medicine, and the doctor is there all the time. If you look at the pictures of that place, it's like living at the Four Seasons. It's that gorgeous and she gets very good care. They're handling her prescriptions and her refills. They're handling everything for her. She's moved there permanently, but they give her nursing and physical therapy. There is not one thing I don't like. I had dinner there with her the first night she moved in. My mother had a Caesar salad, some salmon, and some butternut squash. My sister had chicken marsala and a Caesar salad, and I had French risotto and a Caesar salad. It was beyond excellent. There is a library there, a gym, a salon, and a gift shop. It's a place all encompassing and it's gorgeous. The second day she was there, she went to a musical concert. She goes to the library there. The staff is amazing. It's expensive and I couldn't afford it, but my mother can afford it, and she deserves it. It's topnotch. My mother's apartment has a kitchen, stove, refrigerator, microwave, and dishwasher. Her living room is quite large and it has a balcony. Her bedroom is very large and she has her own furniture. It has a really big bathroom, a laundry room, and a lot of closet space. I would move there in a minute if I could afford it. They have regular yoga, senior yoga, Pinnacle, and mahjong. They have card games, movies, a gym, a spa, and dance lessons. They give you a calendar for the month of what time and what day things are, and it's literally full. There are tons to do there. My mother is getting a lot better since she moved. She has to get up and go downstairs to the restaurant and there are three or four of them. She meets people. The residents and the staff are always talking to her. There's interaction. Last night, my sister said that when they got on the elevator to go down to the restaurant, one of her neighbors was going to eat at the same time, so they ate together. When she was going back up to her room, she was met by some nurses and said, "You're new, aren't you?" There was a couple of residents there, and they all stood there and waved at her as the elevator's door closed. It's a very friendly place. I think people thrive there. I think they have won awards for their restaurant. It has nice linen, nice silver, nice china, and wonderful waiters and waitresses. They have a beautiful menu. We told the waitress, "My mom is diabetic. Can you put that in the computer?" because they order from an iPad. She said, "Just about everybody here is diabetic." All of their stuff is diabetic friendly and it's delicious. I could not find one thing wrong. As a daughter, you want to make sure that you're putting your mom somewhere that will take care of her and it will be lovely surroundings, and it is. It's very value friendly.

The staff at Grand Living at Tamaya was very nice. There were lots of people. It was extremely fancy and maybe a little too formal for my father in his condition to appreciate. It probably is designed more for people that are still pretty ambulatory, although they have a significant number of wheelchair people, and a lot of ambulatory people as well. Their dining room looks like you're in a grand hotel. It's pretty nice. The thing is they don't have as much selection and room availability. They're pretty full. I don't think they're designed for long-term care at all, but they have different levels of care. They don't have a doctor on-staff. They only have one nurse who's on-call for the entire place, and it's a big place. It just wasn't quite right for my father. They have a swimming pool and a really great rehab area. They have a pool in the rehab area that you can go down to on a lift chair, and then you can actually walk on the treadmill in the water. It was really interesting. I've never seen anything like that. They had two huge rooms, one for exercise machines, and the other for classes and individual therapy, and then the water therapy area. There's a lot of physical therapy there.

We visited the Grand Living At Tamaya. There were a lot of things that I looked at. The location, it's perfect for us. The facility itself is amazing, really great looking. We were just really impressed. The whole family was. My mom-in-law's going to move in on the 15th. The rooms were so much more above. It was more akin to an upper level hotel than it was a nursing home or an assisted living. We toured the assisted and memory care. She's not there yet, so everything else wouldl be a little difficult to actually say at this point. I didn't meet any of the staff.