This is a terrible place to go. I tried calling a friend of mine at Wolk Manor to tell him that a friend of his had suffered a stroke and they refused to connect me to his room. For security reasons they said. This is like the a police state. Whys should someone in a nursing home not be allowed to have people call them unless they have the number? Any hotel in the US will connect you to a person's room without giving out the room number. I called twice and left messages for this person and he never got them. What a nasty place to live.

We went to see The Summit at Brighton. I did not like it at all. First of all, you have to give a very large endowment. Also, it is all apartments, and I didn’t really care for the layout of the apartments especially for the cost. And it’s very spread out. If my mother wanted to go from her apartment to the pool, it was quite a long walk. It had a more nursing home feel than independent living. They were very friendly, though. They had long corridors, and the apartments were far away from the dining room, but it just didn’t have that homey feeling. I would give the staff a 5 because they were fantastic.

We visited The Summit at Brighton, and I found the staff very pleasant, accommodating, and knowledgeable. They have variety of apartments to offer the residents. They also have assisted living and nursing care facilities so there is a continuum. We have sampled the food, and it’s very good. They work in conjunction with a couple of colleges, so they bring in musical groups and all that. I think they really do a good job at that. They also provide transportation to the residents.

I visited the Summit with my parents a few years ago, when my grandmother was considering moving to the area and was weighing the pros and cons of assisted living facilities. Although she did not end up residing in this facility, to me it seemed to be a wonderful, warm community with a great number of top-notch amenities, friendly and active residents, and an extremely competent staff. One thing that seemed to be very well-planned about the Summit was its very close proximity to a nursing home, meaning that, should residents eventually need an increased level of care, they would not have to be greatly uprooted from their homes, and would still be able to maintain relationships that they had formed with other residents. On the whole, the Summit seemed to me to be an excellent community, with a great number of features that made it stand out from the rest.