Dignity Senior Living at Oceanside

ReviewerAT1023

We went to Dignity Senior Living at Oceanside, they were not expecting us when we showed up, and they don't do in-person tours. I was a little bit frustrated, because it was about an hour from where I live, and we really want to see it. What they did was we stayed outside, and they walked us through the part of the parking lot where you could see the other side of the building, and they talked to us, so I did get some information from them. I could see they were more affordable and less expensive than the other place, but I didn't see the inside of the facility at all. I did like that they said that when they wanna make changes inside, like to the menu, or were kind of things that affect the seniors who live there, kind of have control over, that they let them vote on what they wanna change, and like what changes they wanna make. It's an older facility, but they actually had a disinfection station, like for all of the workers to go through right at the entrance, and that was the first thing I saw. It was nice because you know the pandemic and those older people are for sure high risk, and that was cool. It's very nice, like in nature, it's surrounded by forest, you're fairly close to the beach, so if a family member wants to come and just take you. I mean the driveway is a little bit long, but once you get off the driveway, it's just across the street. It's kind of a cozy, comfortable place. They have a lot of services, there's transportation that takes them to and from doctors' appointments, they also have a physician onsite if you want to have your care done there, and they also have a physical therapist there. They also have community time activities for the residents to come down and participate, and one thing I really liked is the meals are included with your room and board, and unless there's some kind of medical thing going on with you that you have to stay in your room, you have to physically come down and sit with everyone to eat. If you are like, "No, I don't want to sit down with everyone and eat," then they charge you for that meal, you have to pay for the meal. I could see that with my dad. I would want there to be things encouraging him towards not being depressed, because you're not living with your family, you're living with a bunch of people who you may not know.