Jag Bhargava

Review of Asbury Methodist Village

Where you live can make all the difference. Asbury...

Where you live can make all the difference. Asbury Methodist Village (AMV), in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is an incredible campus with beautiful 134 acres of green pastures, rolling hills, lovely flowering trees, and two great ponds with paved walkway around the ponds. This 1400 residence campus of continuing care retirement community has five high-rise apartments plus an assisted living apartment, and a nursing facility, Villas, and Courtyard Homes. How one ages-health, cognition, strength, balance, happiness-is determined primarily by the lifestyle choices made not genetic make-up.
My wife and I made the transition to Asbury ten years ago. After living in one of the apartment building, Edward Fisher, moved to the Courtyard Home. We were able to watch our house being built from Edward Fisher. We moved to the Courtyard home in May 2011. While many people relocate to retirement communities after they leave the workforce, some Americans are moving to one before to stepping away from the office. I for instance, live at AMV and continue to work for the Federal Government full time.
There are so many factors played into transitioning to this continuing care community. The most significant is that the Asbury residents are never asked to leave due to outliving their resources through no fault of their own. The others are the design excellence of the lovely Courtyard home. Courtyard has large enough to various plants, outdoor table and chairs, large enough for our son and grandchildren to play games and cook-outs, when they used to visit prior to COVID. We quite often get together with our neighbors, having social hour, pot lucks, parties including Christmas party. COVID has not restricted us to get together in pergola on Fridays following social distancing, and social hour with zoom on Tuesdays.
There are several main features of this 2 bed rooms with a den, two car garage courtyard home. The natural light pouring in every room, including great room with double glass door to courtyard, the den with five windows looking at Asbury campus and courtyard. Another great feature is the spacious two car garage with some store above ceiling and storage shelves all along the three sides of the garage wall.