Cascades of Grants Pass

Sandy

My cousin will be moving into the Cascades of Grants Pass. I have always liked the facility. The tour was great. It was just a great experience, so that's where my cousin wanted to go, and that's where she wanted to move in. The place was clean and beautiful. The apartment was nice, just a really good feeling about it. We toured a couple of other ones, and we selected Cascade. It is just the nicest. Friendly staff and everything. I have nothing bad to say about that place. We had lunch there and the food was good. It's 24-hours, you can go down into the dining room and get something to eat if you want. They serve the regular breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but you can go in at any time to get coffee or food or whatever. There is a beauty salon in the independent living, and you can use it, too. They have beautiful grounds. It's lovely to sit outside. From the window of the apartment that they showed us there was a beautiful view of the mountains. It's just a lovely facility. It's an excellent place. I highly recommend it.

ReviewerFC052323B

We went to Cascades of Grants Pass and we looked at the suite. We basically kind of walked through. We didn't observe activities. The people were friendly enough, but it was nowhere near the same level that we found at the other place. The room was nice, but Mom would have had to share a bathroom. My mother doesn't share bathrooms real well, so that was going to be kind of a negative for her. They had a little bit more flexibility with their meals, so they kind of served at some general times. If you miss a meal, you can go in and order a sandwich or order something from their menu, which I appreciated. If my mom slept in late and missed breakfast, she would still be able to go into the eating area and order something to eat. It wasn't a bad place. When I initially looked at it, I thought it was OK, but when we saw the other place, that was it. We did go in and talk to the director of that memory care and her office was such a mess and it was so disorganized and distracting. It was a little difficult for me to understand how somebody could have that messy and disorganized office and then run a home efficiently. That kind of spoke to me and I was not comfortable. My mother is an absolute neatnik, and it would have probably driven her crazy to walk into the director's office. When you're inviting prospective residents into your office and there's kind of chaos everywhere, it wouldn't bother some people, but this isn't going to work for us. Tara gave me the tour and she did a beautiful job and she followed up. I liked her a lot. I just was not impressed with the director. Tara was very helpful and very nice.

Hope

My uncle has moved into Cascades of Grants Pass. The staff seem very knowledgeable. They are all nice. It is a nice clean place. They also were available. We had to get him into a home as soon as possible after he left the hospital. I talked to them before, so it just kind of went that way. His room is smaller than where he was before, but it is nice. He has a window. They have a dining and living area with television and stuff. It seems really nice. It is all on the lower floor. He's not upstairs or anything, like he was at his other place. He shares a restroom with one other person, but the room is private. I did not taste their food, but I did see several of their meals. They looked very healthy, very delicious, and very well set up. The dining area is nice. There are different neighborhoods (as they call them), and so not everybody dines together. Each neighborhood has their own dining area. The folks that live in that one section dine together. It is close to their rooms, so they don't have to go a long way. I think that is nice. The atmosphere is pleasant. Everybody seemed in a good mood and smiling. Everything was very tidy and clean. The staff all seemed to be in good moods and very helpful. They have different activities for them. Each day they have the activities listed on a monthly calendar. They do different things with them. My uncle was a preacher for years, so he had a little Bible study he did at his other home. They are going to help him if he wants to start that here. They have television, and they have crafts sometimes. The first day my uncle was there, it was ugly sweater day. They all were wearing their ugly sweaters, and they had a little contest.

Lisa

We have selected two places and one of them is the Cascades of Grants Pass. The employees looked very professional. The CNAs and people working in the building were dressed professionally, and that wasn't necessarily a suit or tie, but the scrubs were clean and uniformed, and people didn't have a ton of tattoos or piercings showing. I know that sounds terrible, but when you're dealing with people in their 80s, they have a preference. The rooms were generally very well kept up and clean. The campus is very large with very well-maintained walking paths. I thought the food was fine, maybe just a little bit institutional. I thought the apartments were a good size, but the only thing is none of them on the campus have a full kitchen. They only have a kitchenette, a refrigerator, a microwave, and a sink.

Megan

My mother is at Cascades of Grants Pass. She is doing great there. She's an active senior, so it's a good community for her. It allows her to get out and do things with friends without having to drive. She's made lots of new friends there and she likes it. The food is very good. There are activities every weekend. She participates in a wide variety of them. They'll go out to dinner or a play or a movie. They have options to go shopping every week. She's done all of those things.

Jill

We chose the Cascades of Grants Pass. We went to see it and we were very impressed. I liked the friendliness of the people there and just the feeling of the place. It was very quiet. It's very well decorated and the rooms were big enough for our furniture, which we were worried about. We thought maybe the rooms will be too tiny. It was close to different things that you might want to go to. The kitchen is not very big. They have a hair salon, a library, a hairdresser, and things like that.