Assisted Living Communities in Swansea, IL

"I toured Cedar Trails Senior Living Community. It was nice, but it wasn't as nice as the other facility. The rooms were nice. The staff was nice, too. The dining area was nice. It was clean and they were very professional."

"Rooms are spacious for number of guests in room. Food is good. People care about you and a friendly."

"My mother stayed at Garden Place Waterloo for an entire year. It was wonderful. The entire team treated the residents like their family. They have private entrances from the outside, so they all have their own patio which is nice. The care, the staff, and the food are just topnotch. What's pretty cool about them is that each resident gets to select their birthday dinner and then it's served to the entire community there. You can choose whatever you want. It could be steak, it could be lasagna, it could be fried fish. It could just be anything that your little heart desires, and they will accommodate that, and everyone can have that. If they don't want that, they can have something else. They always have an alternative option. There was a time when my mom was having a difficult time getting to the dining room, she was in a lot of pain, so they brought her meals to her room and were always just very attentive. Leah did a phenomenal job as the director, and Barb, her assistant, was amazing. And the rest of the staff were superb. "

"My mom is in St. Louis Hills Assisted Living and Memory Care. It has been very good. The staff there are very caring. It's well staffed and very friendly. She had a real hard time adjusting at first, and they were very patient with her. They really helped her through it. Now she is involved in more activities. I think she's doing well. I go once a week and spend a couple of hours with her. We have lunch, and it's good. She enjoys it. They play bingo twice a week, and she really enjoys that. They keep them pretty busy. They have outside trips. She hasn't participated in any of that yet, but they do that at least twice a week. They have some music. They have chair exercises that they do every day. It's very clean. They've been doing some renovations. They have a nice little outdoor patio. I really don't have any complaints at all. They have a minister that comes every other week, and she really enjoys that."

"It was modern and new, and they were very friendly. It was a nice mixture of people and everything, but they don't have skilled nursing there. As I get worse, I'll have to find some other place to go. Other than that, I was very impressed with them. They stopped by my house, they asked me some things about myself, and I told them I like to color. They stopped by before I even came and dropped off a coloring book and markers. After we'd been through there, they came afterwards and dropped off cookies for me and dog cookies for my dog. It was excellent. It was impeccable. Everything was new. They had a lovely choice of all kinds of artwork. They impressed me a lot."

"I toured Promenade Senior Living. Terry did a good job. She was enthusiastic. The rooms were small. It looked good, and they got a good job keeping it clean. I looked at the dining area, and it looked nice."

"Friendship Village Sunset Hills was a beautiful place. They showed us two-bedroom with a den and one-bedroom with a den. The rooms were very nice. They have a person who will take you to your doctor's appointment, and they have a doctor who comes into the place. Housekeeping and linen laundry are also part of the package. The staff was very informative and really wanting people to come back for a private meeting."

"My wife doesn't see very well and The Mary Culver Home is designed only for visually impaired women, and they've been in business for 150 years, so I like it. It's a small home. It only got 27 private rooms, so she gets a lot of one-on-one attention and they're very good. They are very attentive towards her and I would highly recommend anybody if their spouse is visually impaired, because that's the one requirement to get in. I like the fact that the patient to staff ratio was like 7 to 1 and the food's good. My wife seems to enjoy the food and they do activities with them all the time. So, they try to get them involved in various activities and I'm pleased. The rooms are small, but they're all private, and they have a private bathroom in them. It's plenty and big enough to get around. I think the home was built in 1966, I believe, so it is an older home, but it's well-maintained. They have a dining area and they kind of wait on them like it's a restaurant. They'll come up there and take their order, and whatever they want, they'll cook it for them. They have exercise classes. They do tours of different countries and stuff like that. They listen to those kinds of tapes and then discuss them. The other day when I was there, they were doing Martin Luther King's history and life. So, they do something like that all the time for them."

"I thought Garden Place Senior Living was very nice. They probably are excellent also. I just thought that for my sister, they were not as expensive, and they gave better services for assistance because to help you in the showers and do things like that, that was extra. They had a lot of extra things; different things cost you there. They had like a buffet where you would get your own food and had to walk, and sometimes old people have walkers and stuff, which they said that they would bring your food to your table. I just like the other facility better. "

"I've chosen here for my mom, and she has moved in there. It's been great. It's very clean. The people there are very nice, and they seemed to actually care about the residents there. I feel comfortable with my mother being there. They keep them occupied to a great deal. I appreciate that as far as just sitting in her room, they've got stuff for her to do every day."

"We recently took a group of students for a mission day to volunteer here. I found the staff to be very friendly, the environment was welcoming, and all the residents were pleasant and seemed to be enjoying life. It was a wonderful experience for the students, especially the love they shared for the memory care residents."

"Amy was wonderful with assisting my mom with making the transition to assisted living. She helped with tours, answering questions, etc. She also continued to visit and contact my mom while waiting for her to decide about making the move. I was extremely happy with how the Villas kept the family informed and Amy showed genuine care for my mom. Since moving my mom loves the activities and doing social events. Her room is quiet and her neighbors are so sweet."

"I toured the St. Andrew's Assisted Living of Bridgeton. I looked at a studio apartment, and it was spacious. They also had studio apartments that had wider doors for wheelchairs and things like that. It's based on what the needs are. It was clean, and the staff I passed through were very nice, friendly, and attentive. It was close to the highway, so it was accessible. It was right by everything, like a grocery store and a hardware store, so the amenities are there. You're not situated where you can't get to anything. They also had transportation to take the residents anywhere. I told the director who toured me that the place would be a good option, and I would recommend it. They don't have a stove or a microwave in the apartments, but they do have dorm-sized refrigerators. They said the clients can request some specific meals, too. It was clean, and I didn't see anything that bothered me. The rooms that they let me see were display rooms, but they were maintained well. The hall was clean, too."

"In the last 12 months Town & Country Senior Living, has had: 2 Executive Directors, 4 Director of Wellness, High turnover of staff, Unable to get direct email for staff (had to go through main line), Poor communication between residents, staff, family and in house doctor, less than a year it has changed ownership again."