Assisted Living Communities in Richmond Heights, MO

"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."

"Autumn View Gardens is very warm and welcoming. My mom is there right now. It has a family feel, like the residents are part of their family, and they make you feel very welcome and comfortable. There are a lot of residents out that are very easy to talk to and speak highly of the place. My mom says the food is OK. The staff is very friendly, nice, happy, and helpful. They are attentive to what needs to be done. They're going out of the their way to try and make her feel welcome and be a part of the place. My mom invited us all for dinner the day we moved her in, and they put two tables together and served us turkey sandwiches and chips and lemonade. "

"I visited Brookdale Creve Coeur. One of my sister-in-law's requirements is that she has to have assistance to transfer and they will do that, where a lot of other facilities won't. My impression of the staff was good. I have a friend that lives there, and she says the staff is excellent and the food is good. I just went in and looked at the available rooms. They showed me a studio because that's all that they have available. She wants to get a one-bedroom and they might have one open in November. The rooms were spacious. They have transportation, laundry, personal care, and a dining room. They have all the amenities."

"My mother moved into Sunrise of Des Peres a week ago. Our experience has been excellent, so far. They've been very personal, and they worked hard to get to know my mom and her interests and our family's expectations. They went out of their way to help us do all of the paperwork necessary to get her admitted. They've been excellent to work with. They have a lot of acreages. Her room has a large window that looks out onto a scenic backyard view. She has a large handicap-accessible bathroom. There was plenty of storage in her room for everything that she wanted to take. Her closet is a walk-in, so it's exceptionally large. On the first floor, it's very convenient to the dining room and the entrance. The common areas are everywhere. They have lots of small living areas for people to gather, so it makes a very homey atmosphere. "

"Friendship Village Sunset Hills is really nice. It's just too big for what we're looking for. But I felt really good about them. I felt like they had a lot of staff. I was really pleased to see so many people floating around. They seemed to know the clients' names, the people they were taking care of. There were things that they said they had available to the clients that I actually saw that they were available, which I thought was good. The fact that you could go from independent to assisted to skilled nursing there. We just didn't like that you had to go to separate buildings for that. That would be a challenge for my aunt to get there to see my dad if he were to start off in that. Their prices were higher than what we wanted to spend. However, it would have been pretty much all inclusive. It looked like they had everything we needed."

"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."

"My husband is in the memory care unit of Brooking Park and it's near my house. They have single rooms, a room with a living room on the side, and also two people in a room with one bathroom. There are a lot of things going on. They have three or four people taking care of them. They have a slew of activities during the week. They have a lady that comes to sing and they all liked that. They also have grounds the residents can walk around. They have a dining room on the first floor and it's set up like in a hotel. My husband is a picky eater but he eats everything there. "

"I went to Brookdale West County. It's very, very nice, clean, very pretty, with a beautiful big porch on the front, and a lot of pretty landscaping. I noticed that there's a lot of windows. It's very bright. I stayed in the conference room and the dining area, so I was not able to see a room. They were all occupied, and so they didn't have anything available. But everything I saw was clean, neat, and nice. The people were very nice. The lady I spoke with and the receptionist were very nice. The receptionist actually got up and showed me some of the stuff in the dining room, and I looked at the menu for the week. It looked very good, and there was a program for the day. There are all kinds of activities all day long, and I was impressed with that. The lady who gave the tour was very knowledgeable. We had a nice little chit chat and I told her what my in-laws need and what they have available. It's a bit pricier, which could be an issue with the in-laws, and there's a waiting list to get in. And they only have two, two-bedroom apartments."

"It was the place I was trying to get my husband into. It was 5 minutes from my house, and I tried to get him there, but he was too sick for them. It's a beautiful place. We went and toured their memory care and it was very nice and very neat. It was a beautiful place on the inside and outside. The room was lovely and very, very nice. I only saw one and it had a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom, and a bedroom. The staff who assisted us was also very nice."

"We looked at Friendship Village Chesterfield, it was wonderful, but just too expensive for us right now. The staff that we met were very nice, they're very good. They had lots to offer the residents. They had a swimming pool, they had a theater, an events room, an exercise room, a fitness center, and an arts center. We only saw a 1-bedroom at the time because they didn't have a 2-bedroom available, and there was a two-year wait for a 2-bedroom. So I thought that was kind of ridiculous. The 2-bedroom was a little tight, it's a bit on the small side. Their landscaping was very nice."

"Garden Place Columbia was smaller and had less flexibility for the residents in what they wanted to do. We wanted to be able to go over there and visit my sister and then eat with her, which was fine there, but they had to have a couple of hours' notice before we could have a meal with her. Their rooms were also much smaller and fairly dark. There weren't a lot of outside windows or anything, but other than that the staff was wonderful and the residents seemed very happy. I wouldn't have had any hesitation to place my sister there. The facilities were very clean and the layout was easy for someone to navigate."

"I liked everything about The Lumiere of Chesterfield. They had a private chef who worked with the people who lived there to get on the menu what they preferred to eat according to their diet. A lot of these people are diabetics and when they go to another facility, they don't care what they eat, they just put garbage on the menu. This private chef makes a world of difference. They have high ceilings and big, spacious rooms. It's much more spacious than a lot of the facilities I've seen. It makes it feel much more luxurious and much more like home."

"We went to Lake St. Charles Retirement Community. Our tour went very well. I like the layout, and it's got a very good reputation. The staff were very attentive as well. Amenities seem excellent. They showed us the dining rooms, the activity rooms, the exercise rooms, and the barbershop. I was also pleased with the activities."

"The grounds at Harvester Residential Care were clean and neat. The rooms I saw were new (they had just built an addition to the facility). The size of it was satisfactory. The person who did the tour was very helpful. They were preparing food in the kitchen, and we saw the dining area, and it was clean. They have daily activities. They also have a couple of outings in a week that I saw in the schedule."