What residents and families like most about St. Margaret’s House.
The L. Family
Thank you so much for making and maintaining my parent’s home so safe and comfortable from their first steps to their last step in St. Margaret’s House for almost 30 years.
Often children worried about their aging parents’ health, financial situation, safety and social isolation. This was not the case for me because of St. Margaret’s House’s professional and caring staff. They often go above and beyond their job description. There are many senior apartment communities, but they pale in comparison to St. Margaret’s House’s leadership and staff.
Please accept our thanks, gratitude, and appreciation for all St. Margaret’s House has done for our family.
The T. Family
Our mother is currently 92 and has been living at St. Margaret’s House for the past 22 years and loving it. She made many longtime friends, sharing laughs, meals and house activities. St. Margaret’s House provides creativity with a weekly painting class, health benefits with a number of weekly exercise classes and for fun, there is dancing and movie nights.
The building is very well kept and if there’s any maintenance service required in an individual apartment, it is handled promptly and professionally. Our mother has come to love the staff and we, her children, have relied on the staff to keep us informed of her well-being and safety. They are absolutely wonderful.
Our mother has always loved her apartment which looks out to Brooklyn, with the East River, the South Street Seaport and of course the Brooklyn Bridge all in view. What’s not to love and we are all extremely happy that she is still so happy living at St. Margaret’s House.
Thank you St. Margaret’s House!!!
The Y. Family
St. Margaret’s House has gone through several evolutions since my mother moved into the senior residence shortly before 9/11.
My mother saw the fall of the 2 towers, the move of the Fulton St. Fish Market to the Bronx, Sandy flood out the Seaport and the surrounding financial district, with the South Street esplanade revitalizing the east river from Fulton St. to the South Ferry Terminal.
Throughout this time, St. Margaret’s House has been a stabilizing factor for my mom. In the beginning Trinity Church and the nuns were intimately involved with the daily activities.
There was Bingo, art class, computer classes during the week. The residents’ activities were all dominated by the restaurant and the dining room. My mom used to come and go independently.
Today, St Margaret’s House has become a village setting for my mom suffering with dementia.
Her neighbors almost all have home care aides, my mom heads down to the atrium most days and passes her afternoon amidst a waterfall and garden.
Since the beginning of 2016 there is tai chi, aerobic exercise, yoga, painting and ballroom dancing during the week.
St. Margaret’s House is helping my mother socialize now that her activities are becoming smaller and lesser.
Everyone down to the security guards helps my mother transition with her illness. They are her friends as well as the front line defense preventing her from wandering and getting lost.
St. Margaret’s House is a real guiding light for seniors and with each year that passes it is a safe place that gives its residents life giving energy.
