Saturday, April 6, 2024

Normandy Farm Estates Acts CCRC (4/5-6/2024)

Friday, April 5, 2024 (continued)
This visit is to our 23rd Acts Continuing Care Retirement Community/CCRC. Normandy Farms Estates opened in 1983, on 100 acres, with about 339 independent living apartments, 26 carriage homes and 25 villas, 58 assisted living units, and 64 skilled care beds.
Normandy Farms Estates port cochère
Reception desk in the lobby
Lobby from the other side
The bed is right there when you enter the guest apartment
Guest apartment kitchen
Guest apartment bathroom
Typical corridor
Typical apartment doorway
Rare doorway with some space for a table
Laundry room
Other half of laundry room
Check out the water- catchers of these potted plants
Lounge-like space at the elevator (included a sitting area)
Metal railings on the balconies except at
the front view of the complex; note the silo
of which there are many like this around the campus
Pool and large hot tub
Women's changing room had only one shower
Fitness classroom
Fitness center
Part of the huge library
Rest of the library, which had a collection box for shredding
Copier with an honor-system cost
of a dime per page
Part of the workshop, which we assume continues
through the doors that appear lighted
The Chapel was large enough for Bible study classes
Inside the elevator
Auditorium
An actual bank branch
Club room/card room
Club room [wine] bar
Ping pong table squeezed in a room next
to the billiards tables
Billiards room
A little more than a third of the mailroom,
which includes the cubbies
Notice and activities board
Movie notice spot
Normandy Farm Estates' Heart House
Memorial notices by digital frame
Package room was labeled by building
Veterans Memorial Board with individual names,
service branch, and years of service
Resident art gallery
Dining room lobby
Dining room lobby
It seemed one of three dining rooms was in use
Fireside Grille, fireplace side
Fireside Grille
Ice cream bar and beginning of the steam table;
note the sign on the left about cookies always available
Soup and salad bar
Desserts and drinks
Beverages and coffee on the left, three
types of fruit on the right
Deck off the Fireside Grille
Craft room
Craft room sewing supplies
Stone and frame barn appears to be used by maintenance;
Gross Dank Herr is supposed to be Großer Dank
an den Herrn
/Great thanks to the Lord?
Garden plots
Shuffleboard
Screened gazebo, and a wheelchair accessible grill?
Mini golf course; there is also bocce and horseshoes
Normandy Farms Estates is 4.2 miles from the nearest hospital, Suburban Community Hospital, but only 1.4 miles from the Montgomery County Community College. It is 40 minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport.

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