La Paula Manor

I went there. ALL elderly. No smoking allowed.

This can't be for real! I spoke to Fernand and he made the place seem as if it was too good to be true. But, he said he had to do an assessment. OK. So we scheduled a date for him to come - a Friday. He called that day to tell me they had a great deal of snow. I really didn't see that much, but OK.. he rescheduled for 10:00AM the next day. So, I put my pooches out in the cold, mom got up early for him and we sat and waited. At 11:00 I called - he didn't even leave yet. How can I hand over Mom to a place who can't keep an appointment? No, thanks

At first, La Paula was ideal for my father. It was close by my home and it was a home setting, what he was used to. The aides were good, except for one who didn't speak English well. It frustrated my father even more because of the language barrier with most of the staff (only two of the aides are American). His meds were not given by a nurse but what they call medicine assistant and/or the aides. The meals sucked. They feed them sandwiches and soup everyday for dinner. No variety of wholesome meals like vegetables. Too much pork as well. What were we paying for, just room and board? The activities were not stimulating, as the majority of the residents are advanced in Alzheimers. It is very depressing for my father, because he could not really interact with them being that he is early, mild dementia. In order to delay the effects of dementia/alzheimers my family and I knew we needed to transfer him out to a better facility. One with Nurses medicating him, one that would provide nutritious meals especially with him being a diabetic and one that he could have therapeutic communication with staff as well as residents. My father resided there for 6 months.