I visited Canterbury Inn and that's the one we are going to go with. The staff was very friendly and helpful. I liked the dining rooms. I liked that mom had options. They had two different dining rooms and different feeding times, so she had more options there. I also liked that everything was right there. She's pretty independent, but she's going to start needing more assistance. She's 89, and then the memory care unit is also right there if she deteriorates into that. I liked where she could stay forever. We wouldn't have to move her around to different places. That was probably the biggest thing. The independent and assisted is kind of mixed together, but she is more independent, and then they will just assess her. She hasn't done the assessment yet. They will assess how much help she needs, but they don't think she's going to need very much help at the beginning. I was there late and they didn't hurry me or anything, and I really appreciated that. The staff member during the tour was very friendly and very observant, because she showed me one room, and I think she realized I was pretty disappointed. Then the next room she showed me, which she wasn't going to originally because the person had just moved out, and it wasn't ready to be shown, but she did anyway because she thought from the comments I had made that my mom would like that room, and she was correct. It's a great room for my mom, so I liked how she kind of went off the offer set plan when she met me and talked to me and was able to switch it up. The food smelled really good because it was dinnertime, but we didn't have any food at that time. We're going to eat there soon. My mom will be here and we'll go over together.

The place is nicely kept, the helpers truly care about the residents and easy to talk with. The current covid situation has some residents upset at not being able to have visitors/go out with family, but the restrictions are totally appropriate to the covid situation. I have not met the current administrative staff so cannot speak about them. My stars are based on comments of my family/friends living there.