Brookdale Hillsborough has a hotel-like facility. Everyone is very nice and friendly. We were walking around and I was introduced to everyone and they spoke to me. We would stop and take a minute for them to ask me questions and I could also ask them back. I also like the fact that, I don't know if things have changed but my mom has a urostomy so she has a bag and they care for that. That would be a plus for us because not a lot of places care for that. At least, back when she first got her urostomy, just after surgery and putting her in the rehab and the nursing home, I had to teach the nurse who had to take care of her bag because not too many of the nurses would. Only one or two nurses knew how to take care of it. Maybe times have changed and a lot more patients are getting colostomy and urostomy and they're making sure they have trained staff to care for them and that was a plus for me. The nurse that was there said they would have me show them what the routine is with how we care for my mom's urostomy so they would know how to care for it going forward. That was nice for her to say that. They're very caring and they seem to want to provide excellent care for their patients. They seem interested and nice. They were playing bingo in the assisted living part when I was there. In the memory care, there was a gentleman, who said he was an architect or a builder or something like that, and he was building what they call Lincoln Logs. He was sitting there and he was building homes out of it.

We toured Brookdale Hillsborough. My daughter and I both said that when we reach that point in life that we needed a place to go to, we would pick this place. The staff was very nice, it was a spacious, open area. The memory unit that we were looking at is also like assisted living, it was a separate unit. The residents in the memory care seemed very happy there. They were calm, pleasant, and it was a peaceful setting for the memory care unit. We saw the residents, they were walking in the hallway, they greeted us and it was a calm peaceful setting. They gave us a list of the activities that they do, which were the same ones they do in a regular care facility. They have outside groups come in and entertain the residents, they have a library, and they have TVs there.