I love Rosewood. When I first moved in, my husband was deathly ill. I just couldn't take care of him at home anymore. I was very appreciative of living here. We could get exercise and get all kinds of help. I didn't have to cook anymore, which was absolutely awesome. It lightened my load extremely well. I love the apartment. My husband is deceased now, but he was very happy here. Rosewood has all kinds of activities. They have the swimming pool and exercises every morning. There is yoga and regular exercises run by our physical therapists. Rosewood is a three-tier residence. We have independent living, assisted living, and full care. I had physical therapy here as well. We have movies, travelogues, and parties here. They also help us with our computers, phone, or whatever. We have a store we can go and buy stuff, so we don't have to leave to buy necessities. The pandemic has just done horrible things to our staff, and we are not full right now. Sometimes, if we don't have enough staff in our dining room, we do grab-and-go. If there's enough staff, we can go in the dining room again. It's really been very difficult. Overall, our staff is very good. This is a buy-in, and it's a nonprofit. If I ran out of money, they're still gonna take care of me the rest of my life.

We went to see Rosewood in Bakersfield and I would not recommend them to anybody. It was a horrible thing. The person who gave us the tour told us that this was a bad neighborhood. My mother lived in that neighborhood for 54 years and that's not something you tell people. That was really, really bad that he said that because it's not. They have this system where you pay, for example $110,000 or a certain amount of money, and then you don't really have to worry about much of anything after you do that. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. They were very rude when we went inside, both the way of their system signing in and the receptionist. It was just a rude experience and I was totally turned off by that. He didn't even show us into the main building. I guess he didn't have any rooms available and just didn't show us anything, but we did go into their independent living. It was kind of a cottage and it was pretty much the same type of thing that we had seen at the other two facilities that we visited but more expensive. I think the main thing I'd like to stress is their mode of payment. It's not like a monthly fee to have all these wonderful things that you can do. It was more of you giving them $110,000 and you have some kind of security from that. He couldn't even explain it. There are steps to go upstairs into the units on top and that makes no sense to me at all. Why would you do that when you have elderly people who can't walk upstairs? This was in the independent section.