Three Crowns Park

Title: Explore Life at Three Crowns Park
Time: 6 min 21 sec

Description:

Three Crowns Park is a non-profit, non-sectarian Life Plan Community serving Evanston, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. From our beginnings in 1894 under Swedish auspices, we have grown to offer a full range of services and living environments including Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care and healthcare households, complemented by an array of modern amenities.

Transcript:

when we pulled up in front of three crowns it was the summer and the campus was beautiful the flowers the fountain the trees it was like a large home it's like a large family and there's a connection my favorite thing and my partner's favorite thing about three crowns are the people we the people are all friendly and most of them are very interesting they all have had interesting lives and they're wonderful to talk to I've gotten to know the people that live here they're not only extraordinarily intelligent but they've done amazing things with their lives it really is getting to know someone so well that they feel like family they care about staff care a lot about the residents the residents care about the staff could get to know them they get to know their families you get to know what their likes and dislikes which is really important for I think they're living and enjoying life in general my goal is to give every resident the highest quality of life that they can possibly have there's always something going on you can walk out your door and find other people in the hallways or find a group meeting going on we have access to wonderful lecturers artists musicians why they're live in the neighborhood and are aware of us or because of our area we know about them and were able to bring wonderful activities here as well as take the residents out this is an art and music loving community people here love the arts and have been involved in the arts for a lifetime and the programming centers a great deal on art and music and if you have a request to go down the museum of contemporary Agra the art institute or whatever you let the staff know and they will take you down there so I feel right at home I don't feel like I have left something behind it's here with me all the time I say it's living in a research we have a good chef and the quality of food is generally excellent I love being able to invite our friends over for dinner and I can just visit with them I don't have to cook the dinner it's wonderful I think the most rewarding part would be the smiles that we actually give to the residents just our the way that we interact with them the way we handled their needs and their wants I think at the end of the day if they're enjoying themselves and joined a meal and they actually have that smile at the end that's actually the most rewarding part to see at the end of the day I three crowns it's it's you you get to know the residents better and you know more about them and that's just been a really highlight for me coming your organization just to get to know so many you know really neat people continuum is a very very important part of retirement community and that's because you really can get the services that you need when you need it without ever leaving your home I believe strongly in our philosophy akerians about residents driven services and a household and feeling that this is your community this is your home here people come down from health care or assisted living or memory care for the programs and they sit with their friends and if it's their spouse their spouse brings them down for meals and I feel is very important when it's two people to have a place that's right here the importance of having life cares is the peace of mind that you have with that that you know if you need long-term care in the future that you you know where you're going to have that care and you know it's going to be at a reasonable cost here we really look at the person themselves and what their needs are and frame our tasks around them so that you know our philosophy of care is really rooted in that kind of value and also the value of home and the value of community we're still able to live the same kind of life that we lived in our house go to the same grocery stores the same doctors we have our same friends only more friends napkin three crowns it's a wonderful location it's it's really a very beautiful place to be we ride adult tricycles and just riding in this neighborhood is delightful the property itself is beautiful it's wonderful to walk outside their trees and gardens all around with lots of benches it's a really nice life what makes three cars parked different and specials effect that we're embedded in a residential neighborhood right across the street from an iconic elementary school and so what why that's so important is that the minute our resumes walk outside the front door of our of our campus they're not just one of the neighbors so our residents walk their dogs they go for runs they ride their bike they walk up to Central Street but when they do they're no longer part of just a senior community they're part of the broader community here just one of the neighbors and in fact I Reza's get to know the neighbors in our neighborhood so I think that's very special it's all so special that our residents can open up your windows and listen to children playing in the playground and so this is just a fabulous fabulous neighborhood and the fact that we're embedded in that neighborhood it makes three grounds park different and special I would say to you you're gonna love it here