My name is George and I’m the new Director of Social Media at Pacifica Senior Living. I grew up in Germany and relocated to the US after meeting my wife while on vacation in Florida. As a new hire, last week I got to tour three of Pacifica’s Senior Living facilities in Southern California in order to get a better understanding of what my new employer does.
My mother passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2003. Years before her passing, my father had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but displayed rather mild symptoms. After my mother’s passing, my father’s health declined rapidly to where he couldn’t function anymore without help. After a long and steady decline and struggle with Parkinson’s among other ailments, my father also passed away in October 2011. Prior to his passing, he had lived 3 years in an Assisted Living facility in Southern Germany. At the time, I thought that the care he had received was excellent until I toured Pacifica’s Senior Living facilities: I was simply stunned! Never before had I witnessed such a high concentration of genuinely emphatic and loving caregivers! Selfless caring individuals, fully committed and dedicated to going the extra mile to help and comfort the residents. The ambience was soothing, cheerful and upbeat. The facilities themselves were all beautiful, well-appointed, top notch and impressively well maintained.
The first thing that sprung to mind was my father and how I wished that he could have experienced the same loving care during the last years of his life. The level of care between what my father had received and what I witnessed at Pacifica, sadly, weren’t even in the same ball park. It was an eye-opener and made me very proud to now be a part of the wonderful Pacifica Senior Living team.
