McCrite Plaza Topeka

Title: McCrite Plaza Resident & Family Testimonial
Time: 3 min 47 sec

Description:

Hear from residents and family members why McCrite Plaza is so special to them.

Transcript:

they all have a story and they'd love to tell it and the younger generation are so busy but if you really stop and ask them a question they have a wonderful story to tell and they want to [Music] it's always a transition when you give up your home that you've lived in for a long time I didn't want them to live in a community that was like a chain or two big macwrite is just the right size that they feel comfortable and I think within a few days of them being here everybody knew they were is quite a comedian just serious look the edges or something we met on a dating site they call it a wink and that's just click on their picture if you're interested I thought it's a good possibility but he winked at me first it's a wonderful way to have a nice community to call home and we're happy that we made the decision to come while we could make the decision they made it really easy to continue being in love with each other I wanted them to feel comfortable until like this is their home and that's the way that patent Judy makes the residents feel music McBride walk comes to mind this is getting old sort of Montana announces red with all this energy and everybody wanted to talk to her she is Miss hospitality Kat likes to tease he teases my mom relentlessly I think because she understand like to hold hands when they walk down the hallway so he's always saying hey that's not allowed here they just love that they're very very nice family very nice couple a girlfriend I had drawn out and I met Pat how do you think she was pretty and young couple years younger than me I okay five years younger than me and we've been married 43 years and and she is very much a part of our family business and that's what it is the family business you should never be boarding in the thermic right we try to participate in as much as we can have movies in the theater the mana have a coffee klatch and exercise classes we build a happy hour and a stand could stay away long enough we might go and play bingo we knew that it would be an easy move for her to go to the next step we knew that macwrite would help us with that transition for her and we have no doubt that she'll spend the rest of her life here they blossom they come out of themselves and they're about people their own age a lot of people think that they're committing their parents to this institution than their parents thinking all I don't want to go to a nursing home and they come and they're going oh my gosh and most of the time the children are saying when can we move in just because you get a certain age doesn't mean that you don't care about anything that life doesn't mean anything that does we're trying to provide an environment that allows you to grow with dignity and enjoy yourself [Music] any mom would like it here but I didn't know she would love it here and I asked her several times that she's been here do you guys still love it here and she said yes we do [Music]