Grand Living in Hernando was beautiful, but you're stuck there. Your whole life is in the building. I liked that they had three different restaurants you can choose from and at different times. The building itself was beautiful. The apartment was very nice, but you're in the middle of nowhere. The staff was wonderful. The food was very good.

I was at Grand Living at Citrus Hills. It's quite a large chain. They have them scattered all around (at least in Florida), and I liked it very much. My biggest problem was the fact that they had the assisted and independent all living in the same floors. They were just mixed up all the time. It was not quite as comfortable. It's better to be separate. They probably had at least as many assisted as they did independent, but they were all together. They ate together, and they did all the activities together. Everything was together. The room was very similar to the one I have now, except that it did not have a furnished kitchen. It just had a refrigerator and a microwave convection oven. It was so confusing, so I didn't use it at all. Otherwise, the room was about the same size and about the same floor plan. The activities were good. The physical fitness was very good. We had a very good director. Most of the time I was there, it was Covid. We were restricted much of the time. We would have to stay in our rooms anywhere from one to two weeks if we're exposed to anything. They had to take our temperatures before every meal. They had to do it, but it was a very uptight situation because we couldn't mingle at all. We had to stay separate. We had to eat in our rooms for about six months. They brought our food to us in our apartment in Styrofoam. I got there, and then two months later was when Covid started. They had three different dining areas, and they were good. I cannot really compliment the food, but I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that everything had to be turned upside down to make room to do the to-go meals. They didn't have a kitchen big enough to prepare them. They had to do it in the dining room and use make makeshift dining room tables for the working area. Everybody (including the residents) was uptight because of COVID. You couldn't mingle. You couldn't go outside. You couldn't go anywhere. You couldn't have any guests whatsoever. None of us saw any of our children or our family. It was the same everywhere, I think. I had a daughter that lived 10 minutes from me, and I never did see her the whole time inside. I could just look out the window and see her. I couldn't go to her house; she couldn't come to mine. It was a good experience under the circumstances. I did some activities, but they had to cancel most of them because we couldn't mingle. They had to keep everybody separate 6 feet and all that kind of thing. They didn't have any of rooms open where they had crafts or that kind of thing: no games or bingo. We couldn't have any of that kind of thing. They just had to cancel everything like that. They had church services they would cancel. Music had stopped because they couldn't do it outside because it was too cold in the winter. In the summertime, you couldn't put many people in the room more than just a couple for fear of being contagious. They did the best they could under the circumstances. The staff was pretty good.