Countryside Senior Living of Jacksonville

Martha

I'm at Angelina House. I like all of it, the way it's organized and the way it functions in an organized manner. It provides activities for all levels. They accommodate each and every need that they may have. The staff is excellent. There are some better and there are some not as good. The food is wonderful. It's a well-balanced diet. It is planned by experts in nutrition and it is excellent. I have not found anything that was not palatable. It's clean. Somebody's cleaning the floors and cleaning the rooms. There's constant cleaning going on. We have devotion, dominoes, bingo, and any other kind of games that anybody chooses. We have different games in the activity room that people can choose and go to a table and have their own Bridge or whatever they want to play. They keep us so busy. We have exercise every morning. We have daily devotions, and we have Christian singing. We have hymn singing. You can go any time you want to go outside for a walk. You just have to tell someone what you're doing and you're on a level where you can take care of yourself. There's a swing out there. You can sit and enjoy the outside. There are sidewalks all around. You can walk safely. We have preaching twice a week. We have a preacher come with a pianist, and they play and sing those old hymns. We don't have to go out to attend church. The preacher has a church right here in Jacksonville and knows most of the people here. We have other entertainment that comes in. They play the banjo. One lady came in with her recordings of singing the old hymns. We have volunteers coming in from the area to sing to us and to have activities with us. We're busy. I was paying much more where I came from and I was not getting near what they offer here.

Mary

I went to Angelina House. I wasn't impressed with that one. The activity room was small. I asked about the food, and they said that they were just changing their program for meals, and it was kind of wishy-washy. I didn't get good answers. I didn't see monthly menus for meals, and I didn't like the way they charged everything. I didn't see any group activity going on. I saw a studio, and it was about the same as all the ones I saw. It is a little older place. It's not as new as some other places I looked at. I think they ought to set up visitation at a certain time and make sure they're ready. There wasn't much space in the activity room.