I would recommend Cornerstone at Hampton. Olivia, the Executive Director, is really on-point and very caring. She has a wealth of background in Geriatrics, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Patricia, who heads the Memory Care unit, is very passionate, very caring, and very hands-on. The staff is very caring, very passionate, and very knowledgeable. They do care and they are very professional. If somebody is in my position right now on the sea coast or in that relative area within New Hampshire, I would recommend that they look at Cornerstone at Hampton. The facility is beautiful and new. More importantly, it has a lot of natural light, which is incredibly important for people with Alzheimer's. Whoever the architect of the building designed it in such a way that memory care was at the forefront. They had a beauty salon and a barber shop on site. I saw the menu and I witnessed the food they were putting out, they had fresh fruits and it was absolutely a stunning menu. The other thing on the menu was that it was geared towards a Mediterranean diet. They also try a holistic approach to memory deficits and stuff.

We're keeping my dad at the Cornerstone at Hampton. He's familiar with everyone there, and we don't want to disrupt him from his home, and that's his home now. We've made the decision to just keep him there. He is at the Compass memory care unit. It's a brand new facility. It's in a style that's very homey, yet you're kind of a like in a hotel. It's beautiful, they have big day rooms, and they have an open kitchen for snacks that's like a little cafe if they want to grab something to eat there. They have a dining room in the assisted living where they can order their own food. For the memory care unit, they have a couple of choices for the patients. They may not always remember food items, so they tweak the different items for them and they get to choose, which is phenomenal. They have extracurricular activities that they do with them. It's fabulous because they keep them engaged. They had entertainers sometimes coming in, but not right now. The grounds are beautiful. It's a gorgeous facility. The staff is attentive. I did some research and thought they kept increasing the price, but they were well within the means of market price. In fact, they've actually done a little bit better than this other nursing home with a memory care unit that costs $11,000 a month. Cornerstone is below that and for what you get, it's definitely worth it, which is why we decided to keep my dad there.