Great Oaks Senior Living

Before moving my 90 year old mother to Great Oaks, she was in good health with a strong appetite despite living with dementia. We had a prescription for ativan to make the airplane ride easier, but told the Great Oaks staff the she was not to have any more, it seriously diminishes her quality of life. A non-medical employee scheduled a doctors appointment without my knowledge or consent, and had a prescription written for an evening ativan dose, also without my consent. About two weeks later the same employee scheduled a second appointment with a different doctor, who was unknown to me, again without my knowledge or consent, and he removed her regular medication and prescribed a morning ativan dose, again without my consent. During this time I was told that my mother was not eating well. Of course ativan, besides being a debilitating drug, is an appetite suppressant. A week after the second appointment I was told that her medication was out of balance and she needed hospital care to re-balance it. This was from the doctor who removed her regular medication! I got her back on her regular medication, and tried to get her off of ativan, but it was too late. After 32 days of care with Great Oaks, my mother was admitted to a hospital suffering from malnutrition and dehydration. Within six weeks my mother had died.

They are doing very well, we are very happy with them. They are taking great care.

Too far away from family. Cancelled our appt there.

My Mother is a complainer, but when we moved her to Great Oaks in Monroe, she was thrilled. All she has is praise for her room, the people, the care and the food. My family was very pleased. She us kept active with all the activities. When the weather is good, they have a gardening area where the residents can actually plant flowers. This is perfect for my Mother because working in the flower garden was one of her favorite things.

The value was horrible for what we paid and no more care than we got. We wanted a one bedroom apartment, comparing the two we went up a little bit to get the one bedroom apartment for him. The activities were good, it's just that they didn't really participate or not in the activities because he was in the memory care so most of the time he was in his room and would just go out on the patio to smoke. He thinks he doesn't need medication and he needs encouragement to take his meds so the nurses gave them to him and we didn't have a problem with that but he got kicked out while we were trying to tweak his meds.

Toured with director and had lunch. The place is very nice and a bit larger than we were looking for but the price is better at 2600. Pharmacy on site and a lot of activities.

Mother's choice.