The Avenue

Really Nice view from the rooms here, really nice staff, really nice living space, also they have a menu with a variety, nice dining room setting. The residents are pretty nice as well

The Avenue has good service and good physical accomodations expect some of the caregivers speak very limited english.
My mom stayed there for 10 days and after she died they charged me for an extra 30 days at 250 dollars a day + other charges. The contract was out dated 1÷05÷09. On april 6,2012 there is a standard admission agreement
which took effect which via the california health and safety code. There is a rule
that allows a refund back So make sure you get the standard admission agreement (cdph327) contract when entering this place other wise you will be
subject to rules that may be illegal.

The worst assisted living ever! I used to work here as a caregiver last year.

FANTASTIC assisted living care facility! My granny checked in here a couple of months ago. Of course it was hard at first bc she begged and begged to go home. But now, she LOVES it. She’s even too busy to hang out to chat with me when I visit! She rather hang out with her buddies or take a yoga class or go to her drawing class! Where’s the love granny???
The facility is really really nice. You feel like you are walking into a hotel. Serious. We did some major shopping around for nursing homes and assisted living facilities. This was the best one around. By far. A lot of others had all the old people crammed into one room. I mean come on, how you gonna stick 10 peps in one room? Most places we checked out were HELLA depressing. Peps were just waiting around to die.
But of course, for such a nice place, you pay the price. $ 4500 A MONTH (Might I add that she is LOW CARE so this is cheap). Thank god granny pushed out 8 kids to help out with the cost!

If you’re over 80 and would like to live as independent from your family as possible, then I would highly recommend the Avenue. Upon first entering this place, I thought I was in a 5 star hotel. Completely beautiful décor throughout the atrium, lobby, hallways and dining room area. I believe each floor has a large living room area…5^th floor has a balcony/​patio with an area for outdoor gardening. The meals area really good… for outsiders it’s $ 12 for lunch or dinner and $ 6 for breakfast. They have a private dining room sectioned off that can be rented for festive occassions.
Each tenant has their own studio apartment: 1 room with fridge/​microwave/​kitchenette and a bathroom. Service workers wander the floors 24/7…so there’s always someone there to help.
**Interesting view of Crunch Fitness… I can see all the way into the gym… and it’s not pretty. Upon visiting my gran, I had an inner dialogue running as I watched herds of tourists entering the Mel’s Diner across the street. «NOOOOO!!! DON’T GO IN THAT CESSPOOL! They serve shit in there!”**
This place rocks. It mocks the other facilities I’ve checked out in the City… but you do pay for it… the monthly rent is above $ 4,000! First 2 floors are lock down levels for severe dimentia patients, so the workers are there literally on call 24 hours a day… I guess that’s where the moolah flows to.
Why pass on the good life when you’re old and withered? Putting your parents/​grandparents in places that provide senior care (when back in the day, it should’ve been the oldest sibling that took that job)…is hard enough. But at least give them a place that offers sincere and honest care *plus their clam chowder is the bomb!