La Vida at Mission Viejo

I am very impressed with Ivy Park Mission Viejo. I researched and toured multiple communities to find the right place for my in-laws. My mother-in law has dementia and my father-in-law is in decline, but still pretty clear. This review is for the memory-care building called Evergreen. While touring...

I am very impressed with Ivy Park Mission Viejo. I researched and toured multiple communities to find the right place for my in-laws. My mother-in law has dementia and my father-in-law is in decline, but still pretty clear. This review is for the memory-care building called Evergreen. While touring the first time I was impressed by how the staff was engaging the residents and there were very few people sitting in their rooms. I quickly learned that this is what happens there all day - every day and I can tell you that this is NOT what happens at other communities. They have activities all day long and really try to get the residents involved. We moved my in-laws from NY to be near us and the staff went out of their way to help us with this difficult move. My in-laws were welcomed in like family, the staff is attentive to their needs and they even received welcome gifts. They now live in a beautiful suite where they can be together. Per my father-in-law, the food is very tasty and I've seen that the variety on their daily menu is impressive. There are urns of both plain and fruit infused water out and available for residents to have 24/7 because they know how important it is for residents to stay hydrated. (Other communities don't do this.) Snacks are also available if a resident gets hungry between meals. They have a great doctor that comes to Ivy Park (which is a huge help for families) and they bring service like lab work, imaging and physical therapy to Ivy Park to reduce the need for residents to have to go elsewhere for such services. Finally... the staff. You'll never find a more caring group of people from the front office to the aides. I am so thankful to each and every one.

We selected La Vida at Mission Viejo. We like the size of the apartments, the location to our home, the amenities, and the decor, and it was upgraded. It was on a golf course and we like that. It was a nice view. The rooms were large, airy, had high ceilings, and upgraded and a lot of them had views...

We selected La Vida at Mission Viejo. We like the size of the apartments, the location to our home, the amenities, and the decor, and it was upgraded. It was on a golf course and we like that. It was a nice view. The rooms were large, airy, had high ceilings, and upgraded and a lot of them had views. The hallways weren't exceptionally long. The staff that we met with were over-the-top, hands down, just fantastic people. We met someone who was doing entertainment during the day and the activities director. The woman who was taking us around was fantastic, very knowledgeable, very kind, and very patient. They had a movie theater, which I thought was well done with comfortable chairs and little tables. Mom would be able to access them because the chairs had arms on them to help push her up because she had a hard time with stability and strength. The decor was nice. It also had a game room, an art room, which I thought was pretty cool because I didn't see that everywhere, and the art room had easels and all types of different art that the residents could partake in. When you entered, there was a living room that was very inviting and that's where they had a piano and a fireplace and they were doing activities and trivia in there. They had another area that they were doing games in. The residents were playing dominoes in a separate area that had a bistro attached to it where they could get snacks and drinks during the day. They had a massage room, a beauty salon that did nails and hair, which we liked, a nice library, and a fitness room. It was great. It's fantastic.