Camellia Place Assisted Living & Memory Care was excellent. I love Alisha, she's awesome, extremely thorough, and very professional. It was great.
The facility is nice, newer, and clean. It's a different structure than most assisted living facilities, where most of the apartments are kind of just the apartment itself. In this place, the whole thing is houses, with various people in their own apartments in the houses, and then the living area is communal, as opposed to most of the other places where basically you had your bedroom separated with a living area where you can kind of watch TV. But here, the apartments were a little smaller in that regard, because everything else was communal. So it was interesting, very different — with various houses with ten different apartments and a communal area within each of the houses.
Each house had its own food and dining area. It wasn't a massive place, but each house had its own community. It was accommodating to whoever the residents were. It looked fine and didn't seem that you would've been overcrowded with people because every house had its own kitchen.
Most of the activities, either they were already on the bus going to the local shops, or the grocery store, or nothing was going on at that time. In this facility, they were very thorough and organized. They had the menus for the food, and a calendar of events that were going on throughout the whole month. It looked pretty jam-packed with the different things to do, whether it be karaoke nights or Margarita Mondays or whatever it be. There were events bringing people in, speakers, and storytellers. It was pretty thorough.
During these scary, unpredictable days, Camellia Place is such a blessing. While the virus seems to rage on the outside, we can rest assured that our loved ones are safe, secure, and well cared for within this wonderful community. The many activities keep the residents engaged and smiling. The dedicated and caring staff have become an extension of our family, and we can’t be more grateful. Thank you Camellia Place!
They had individual group units called pods. You had a centralized area where everybody would gather, eat or have activities, and do things together, but everybody's living facility was off of that pod and my father did not like that. The ability to be able to go wherever you wanted and whenever you wanted and not to be inside was not a good idea. He likes to be able to go outside anytime he wants. He was not comfortable there. It's not for him.
It seemed very nice, and the rooms were very nice. It's fine for people who like that quaint feeling and a small group of people that you get to know. Everybody's under one roof in a pod, and the rooms are in different areas. Everybody comes to this little dining room, and they bring in the food in the centralized area. You might only have 12 or 20 people in that pod. It's not like having a huge dining room, so that if you don't like who you're sitting with, you can go and move someplace else. It was just too physically confining for what my father needed. He needed the openness and the ability to be able to come and go whenever he wanted.
The staff was very nice. It's a perfect fit for somebody else, but not for us. They had a very nice, large bedroom, they had a good sized closet, and a very nice bathroom, and it was accommodating for handicaps. I saw activities. They were having a singing activity and people were having a good time in the central area that they had, but that central area was not big enough for everybody. They could go out into a gated courtyard, and they had a library. If I was looking for a place like that, it would've been very nice. They served delicious, fresh-baked cookies when I was there. It was very nicely laid out.
