Family information sessions & tours
The first step isn't a contract. It's a conversation — your family in the room and the practical questions on the table between you. Come and see the apartments, ask the awkward ones out loud, and take the pricing guide home with you.
Two of you, one conversation
Most people arrive here as a pair — the person who would be moving, and the adult child doing the searching. So we've written this page as a pair too. Read the left column out loud. Read the right column quietly.
If you're the one moving
You still want to make your own coffee, keep your own hours and lock your own door. You'd just rather not be the one driving when the roads are bad.
If you're the one watching from a distance
You want to know someone notices when a day goes sideways. When you visit, ask how a day actually runs — the ordinary Tuesday, not the tour version.
If you're the one moving
Mornings are better with a table to sit at and somebody to argue with about the crossword. You'd also like a door to close when you've had enough of people.
If you're the one watching from a distance
You want to walk in and find your parent mid-conversation with someone their own age. Come mid-morning, and you'll see the common rooms in use.
If you're the one moving
Not tonight, not next month. But you'd rather understand now what changes if the help you need changes, instead of finding out the hard way.
If you're the one watching from a distance
Independent living, assisted living, memory care — different needs, different settings. Ask what happens here on the days you can't drive over.
If you're the one moving
You've run a household for decades. You'd like to see the monthly picture plainly, without anyone lowering their voice about it.
If you're the one watching from a distance
You may be comparing a mortgage, utilities, groceries, insurance and the cost of help at home. Ask for the pricing guide — plain numbers, no sales pitch attached.
What families ask
So here they are, answered before you ask. If yours isn't among them, bring it to the session — that's what the conversation is for.
Earlier than feels necessary. A visit while nothing is urgent is a much calmer afternoon than one after a hospital stay — and nothing you do today commits you to anything.
Please do. A tour, then lunch a week later, then a family information session with your brother on speakerphone. Everyone makes a better decision on the second visit.
Then take the pricing guide home and put it in a drawer. It keeps. People come back to it months later, and we'd much rather that than a rushed decision.
Whoever is part of the decision — one of you or all of you. Bring the sibling who asks the hard questions. They usually turn out to be the most useful person in the room.
You sit down with us, usually over coffee, and we answer what you ask. You leave with the pricing guide in your bag, and there is nothing to sign at the end of it.
The practical answers
Services only mean something once you know why you'd want them. So this comes after the questions, not before — six things on offer in Wenatchee, and what each one is really for.
Your own door, your own kitchen, your own hours — with neighbors around you and help kept in reserve.
A suite with everyday help built in: meals, bathing, dressing and medication reminders, at the level you need right now.
A quieter part of the community, with steady routines and familiar faces, and space for family to visit without it feeling like a hospital.
A short stay — so you can try the days before deciding anything, or so your family can take a proper breath.
Rides to appointments, errands and outings, so winter roads and parking lots stop being the whole argument.
Care under the same roof as your apartment, without a drive across town for every appointment.
Mid-morning in the common room
Start here
Book a community tour if you'd like to walk the halls and see the apartments. Book a family information session if you'd rather sit down first and just talk. Bring whoever is part of the decision, and neither one obliges you to anything.
We hold sessions at the community in Wenatchee, Washington.
One sheet of plain numbers: the monthly picture, what's included, and what isn't. Take it home, put it on the kitchen table, and read it with the person who'll be doing the sums.
Download the pricing guide