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People beginning to consider retirement communities often say the same thing. “I’m not ready yet.” Residents at Paradise Valley Estates consider themselves planners, and most describe the move as the best plan they have made for their own future and their family’s.
Residents at Paradise Valley Estates move in while they are fully independent. Assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing are located on the same campus should they ever be needed, so care comes from people residents already know, in the place they already live. What sets Paradise Valley Estates apart is that although most residents never expect to need those services, the cost of them is predictable. Residents know what care would cost and where they would receive it long before the question arises.
No two residents arrive for the same reason. Some are thinking of children they would rather not leave with a difficult decision. Others have no children and want the choice to remain their own. And for couples, the case is often strongest of all, because one spouse can move to a higher level of living while both remain in the same community, near each other, which no house of their own could offer.
With over 20 different floor plan options, independent living comes in more forms than most people expect. Cottage and apartment residences are spread across 76 acres of open ground, with the Suisun Valley hills on every horizon. It is a walking campus, close enough that neighbors run into one another on the way to everywhere and open enough that each residence has land around it.
A fitness center and walking trails run the length of the campus, the wood shop is rarely empty, and residents built and largely teach an adult learning program called the College of Exploration. Committees run by residents shape most of what happens here, including decisions that management makes. Just past the front gate, Suisun Valley, voted the country’s best wine region by USA TODAY readers, offers family wineries and farm stands.
Mather Institute and Northwestern University followed more than 8,000 residents of Life Plan Communities over five years. Residents reported greater social, emotional, physical and intellectual wellness than people their age still at home, and 69 percent said the move improved their social lives.
Paradise Valley Estates opened in 1997 and has remained a single-site community, among the larger of its kind in California. It is now undertaking Paradise Reimagined, a vision for the community’s future that will change how it delivers housing, hospitality and health services, with several elements that will be the first of their kind in the state.
Visit pvestates.com to learn more about Paradise Reimagined or to schedule a tour.