Brookdale

There was no familiarity there. I didn't feel like you were at a home. It felt like you were staying at hotel. The way a hotel is set up is like you're living with strangers, so the doors are far apart and things like that so there is a detachment from a community environment, I thought. The head nurse there didn't even know where the rooms were. She couldn't find the room we were supposed to be looking at so that was a little worrisome.

The building was nice but we were not comfortable with the location. There was a park across the street that homeless people seemed to be hanging out at. It just didn't look safe. Our choice didn't have to do as much with the building or community as it did with the location.

I moved father in there and we are not one hundred percent satisfied. The food isn't good. I agree with him! He does some activities. He does bridge. They have a pool but they only offer swimming one day a week. They've already closed that and it is disappointing. Physical structure is not good. It is a quarter mile to the dining room. I liked the other place but he wanted to keep his dog. He is on the corner so he can take the dog outside. They wouldn't let him walk the dog through the building. The kitchen is not updated. There are 80's cabinets in the kitchen. More expensive - he got a "deal" for $2900 then will go up to $3800 after 18 months. He has a two bedroom. He gets a maid once a week in independent living but that is it.

Beautiful facility, but too large -- felt my mother-in-law would 'get lost' among so many residents. Liked the different levels of care available in one location.

Nice tour but high price for small rooms. To far away for us to give mom the support we are interested in

Visited. 26 yrs. old. 280+ units, mostly independent. 40+ cottages. 1100 sf felt cramped and old styling with popcorn ceiling, vinyl floors, laminate counters. Includes car port. Lunch OR dinner plan. Can try for a week. Pretty grounds! Good for the dog. Location OK, about 30-45 minutes for me. Price comparable. Ages 55-100. Some there for 20 years. Met with Debbie.

This facility was nice but too large for my sister. They accepted her but we felt her needs could not be met being far from everything which was why Oakmont could not keep her. The price was reasonable.

This was one of two memory care facilities we visited. It's not my favorite place but I also know people who have their folks there. I think memory care is a very difficult thing to face. It's taxing and it's sad to think that my mother may need it.

Very friendly staff. A bit dated. Clean and roomy. I don't like the physical separation of independent and assisted living. They offered to do an evaluation of my mom that will be shared by the other facilities.

We looked at 10 places before I moved my mom to this facility. It is nice but, she is not happy there. It seems like there is not much to do. Also the $3600 just pays for a roof over her head and 3 meals per day. If you want or need anything else, there is a added price and the add-ons are very expensive.

They came out and evaluated him, they thought he could do more than he could. So they moved him because he couldn't do what the other patients were doing, he didn't like to play games and things like that, he was walking constantly.

It was small and I had my debates about that because it was very quiet and the energy wasn't that great. They had those big garbage cans out in the hallways. The cost was considerably less but here were just too many things that just turned me off about it.

I didn't like place. It was sad. The people there were very nice but the facility is old and when I walked in I got the feeling that it's a place where people go to wait to die. Again, that nothing to do with the staff. The people were very nice, friendly and very open and gave me a tour and followed up with me and everything but this just wasn't a place that I wanted to put my mom.

This was a little higher up than a nursing home, they were going through a big maintenence repair thing there when we toured. They had rain get into the place and ahd a lot of stuff going on there. The residents were just sitting there staring at us, I didn't notice anything good or bad about the place but it didn't seem as friendly or comfortable as Tallgrass did.

It's hard for me to rate the care because they really didn't provide enough care for him and I'm not going to say it's their fault or not because this was my only experience with this situation, I don't know which one of us should have known that. I'm not going to blame them for anything because I didn't know what kind of care he would need either. It was a convinient place, it was relatively small and the people I met when I was looking there were really nice. It's kind of a chaotic place, I mean, it really is. Of course, I can only speak from my personal experience and i'm not going to say they aren't a good place because my experience wasn't good. Figuring out what someone's needs are to come there has got to be extremely difficult if not an impossible thing to do. So probably, if they could improve something, helping people with better expectations of how their loved one's going to be cared for would be helpful, but for someone who's never dealt with this, you need a lot of guidance on what to expect in reality.

It was cookie cutter. It seemed to be very corporate and not as friendly. I mean, it was nice, but if you had to sit there and pinpoint to say something good or bad about it, you wouldn't find much bad, but you would find it indifferent to good. It was clean, but the furniture seemed a little outdated, it was eclectic, but it wasn't warm and friendly, it just kind of looked thrown together. The young lady that gave me the tour wasn't the person that was supposed to because we came at off-hours (something we were trying to do). She took the time to give me the tour, but it wasn't her deal.

My mother was here for about 18 months and it was not good, that's why I moved her. The care was deficient, the price for the care that she was getting, there was no value to it and most of the staff didn't have a command of the english language which made communication difficult.

This seemed more insitutional and kind of had that old person smell, I just met with one person, didn't get to see any staff-resident interaction, and she sort of just walked me around. It felt like a nursing home basically, just a couple of people to a room and a room with a bed.

Actually, it wasn't so much as on our desires but my mother's. My mother actually went to Monroe Square before she was supposed to go in and she thought the facility was dark, she thought the hallways were small and crowded and she said she didn't want to go here.

My wife and I saw this one, she didn't want to go here. She just felt that she wasn't quite ready for it yet, we needed something more independent .