Senior Living Apartments in Kinards, SC

Even though my mom is at a facility I still feel like I'm taking care of her. I like that it's small. This has been a better fit than the previous place which was much bigger. What I like least is that they seem to always be short staffed. That's when things fall through the cracks. It came down to 2 places and I chose the one with a roll-in shower.

They have lots of activities going and we've joined a couple of them but we're not people that go to everything. I guess the management is only here two and a half days a week and in that, its usually only one and a half days. The maintenence, in my mind, is questionable in that it seems to take a long time for stuff to get done unless you pound them. The other thing is, we've lived in an apartment before, years ago, and they fixed things now, not "later" or "in a week." Here, it seems like the painting in the hallways they need to touch up, we've been here for several months and it's still not done. I don't know if they don't see it or if they don't care but personally, I feel they could do better. It's where you just live with it and hope someone gets a kick in the pants sometime. I do think it's a good place, once of the nice things is that there's an elevator and at our age we don't do stairs.

My experience with Brookdale is positive. It is much more important than I initially realized to carefully match the capabilities of the prospective resident to the level of care the facility offers.