Waterstone at High Ridge

Michelle

The tour I had at Waterstone at High Ridge was informative. I liked that place because it was brand new. All the facilities felt updated and exciting. Everything was top shelf and the rooms were beautiful. The dining area was fabulous. There were just no available rooms. You have to get on a waitlist and at that time, we just could not do that.

Martin

My mother has moved into Waterstone on High Ridge. She chose the community for the fact that it was halfway between my sister and myself, and she liked the facilities. It is brand new, and it is spotless. It's almost over a year old. The people are very nice and very friendly. She likes the food, which is important. For institutional food, it's very good. Personally, I like better quality, but that's me. In terms of amenities, they have everything. They have a gym, a pool, and classes all the time. They are constantly grabbing my mom to do classes. They are pushing her to do them, which is great because when she does them, she enjoys them. There is arts and crafts. They have cards. They also have two libraries and a little art gallery there. They do a lot of movies. They have a lot of lectures. They have a lot of cooking demonstrations, which she enjoys. They celebrate a lot, too. They have cocktail hours and parties. For holidays, they do special foods. She's enjoying it. The staff are wonderful. We looked a lot of places and a lot of them were very nice, but for some reason, my mom chose this one over the rest. She seems to be happy there. As long as she's happy, I'm happy.

Chris

I went to Waterstone at High Ridge. A very nice facility, brand new, the food was very good, they invited us to stay for lunch, and the food was excellent. The staff that we met were all quite professional, very dedicated to their roles, and the residents. All that was good. The primary reason we didn't go there was they separate the people who need assisted living from those who are independent. They did separate those who needed memory care. That's perfectly understandable. But the people who need some manner of assisted living versus those who are independent were put in separate communities that had some common spaces, but I thought that was unnecessary and frankly, it was unattractive to my mother. So that was a negative. I think they probably only had a third to a half of the residents' rooms booked. So it was not a very large community as far as the number of people there, not that we're looking for a large community, it has the same fundamental capacity as the other place, but it was half full, and that's primarily because they've just opened their doors. I didn't think my mother would do well in a facility with not a lot of people. I think she would enjoy having more people around. So that was another negative, but that wasn't their fault, it was just because they just recently opened their doors, so they will eventually fill it. I did think they were a little pricey for what she got, or a little pricey for what my mother would use it for because there were some facilities there that she would never use. They had a very expensive gym. They have a swimming pool. Stuff like that, which at 95 she wouldn't be taking advantage of. So I felt we would have been paying for things that we wouldn't have been using.