The Best Assisted Living Communities in Burlington County, NJ

"We got Mom over at the Riverview Estates. She loves their food. It's gorgeous. It's very clean. The maintenance is good. They just had a whole bunch of renovations. It's pristine. The view of the river makes you feel like you're on vacation versus in a senior living home. They have this beautiful atrium with rocking chairs so people can sit and just look at the river. It's a beautiful ambiance. She's very happy there. They have religious services six days a week, which my mother loves, and bingo, which she loves. They bring in a lot of entertainers, like a lot of singers. On Christmas, they brought in a choir. She hung up on me the other day to go play bingo. She's happy that they have the Hallmark Channel in their TV room. They have a giant screen TV with a bunch of chairs and that makes her very happy, even though she has a small TV in her room. They're very attentive to her needs. When she misses a meal, they come up and they try to get her down for meals. If she can't make it down because she's in too much pain, they bring her her meals. Whenever I called the facility during the first couple of weeks when she was getting acclimated, they called me back very quickly. They work to get her needs met. I think the value for the money is great. I wish she would call staff more often, but that has nothing to do with their rating. She has a habit of not wanting to ask for help, but they know to come look for her, which I find important. I'm very happy there."

"Oakwood Residence was the cheapest one I found compared to other places. But they couldn't take me because of my money, and because I weigh 450 pounds. They said that if I fell, they wouldn't be able to get me back up again. The atmosphere of the place was nice, but the bathrooms in the rooms look like they were too small. I use a walker, and I don't know how I'd be able to get in there. The rooms were nice, and I would have to go in with another person. They had all kinds of things and activities like bingo, and they go places. I was able to meet the one person that runs the place and she was very helpful. The facility itself was very clean, I just think the rooms could be a little bigger."

"Everything at Oxford Crossings was amazing. Carlen was extremely helpful and just had nothing but a ton of information for me, and it was all very helpful. The place was beautiful. The staff was amazing. The facilities were top-notch. It was a newer facility and had very high standards. The staff was just completely professional, very courteous, and very friendly. I was unable to sample a meal but they did show me a menu, and it seemed to be a rotating menu. They said special requests were also provided within reason, but it seemed like they go above and beyond for their residents. I was very impressed. I did meet the event coordinator, and she had a full list of activities."

"Spring Hills was fantastic, except for the community fee. It was the nicest place I saw, so far. It was very classy, very beautiful, and clean, and had a hotel feel to it. It had a nice ice cream parlor. It was really big, so I think it was more suited for independent people or people who can get around. There were stairs when you first come in and marble floors, so it was beautiful. It wasn’t a good fit for my father because of the layout. "

"A friend of mine is a resident of Brookdale Evesham, so I go there every other week. We also toured the assisted living for my brother-in-law. It's very clean and they do lots of various things. Every day they have all kinds of activities. They interact so that the residents aren't alone in their rooms. Even if they're non-cognitive, they want them to be at least out in the public area so that they can see other people, and it's not like they're in senior jail. The staff members have been very nice when I go up at the front. The various different ones at the front desk don't know my name, but when they see my face, we say our hellos. They don't want guests coming into the dining room when the residents are in for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. If the residents are having some family members over, they have a separate little side room that they let them go and sit in if they want privacy. There's only so much seating, and they can have it for maybe two hours. My brother-in-law is still doing his own things, like his pills and showers, but they have people there who would come to help if he needs it. They also said that if you need more care and go from independent to assisted, you don't have to be moved to another wing or to another floor. You could still be in that room, and they would have it set up so that they would come to you, which is also very nice."

"Holland Village was a bit dated. It needed some repairs, which is very visible. The staff was nice. I think we met about three of the people. They were accommodating with the food, but I did not get the chance to taste it. The rooms were probably three stars. We didn't know what we were getting for those rooms, like one had carpeting. It was just hard to tell."

"I toured Philadelphia Protestant Home. The staff was very courteous. They have great facilities. They have a gym. They have all kinds of things for seniors there. But the cost factor came in. It came into play with me. The place was very large. I have no problem with the place. It's just the financial outlay would be drastic for me and I couldn't do it."

"Wynwood have been very nice, helpful, and they do anything for my uncle. The place is spotless, and I'm very happy with it. The rooms are a lot better than the other places I visited. The people seem nicer, too. They have daily exercises, group meetings, and I believe they sponsor trips. I like that it's so clean. "

"I visited The Landing of Hamilton. They were just opening. We were able to do an in house visit because there were no residents in and they were booking people. It is an attractive place, although I would not necessarily look to use it as a memory care unit, just because it's a big facility. It's a nice facility, but again, for the most part, it was so big. The rooms, I thought, were a little smaller than what the other facility had. It was nice, but when I took a look at the price point, the memory care was a greater amount than what I was paying for mom. The room was slightly higher as well, but again, the problem I had with them was, they weren't open and I have been talking to them since August. When we did our onsite visit at the end of September, it still hadn't got their New Jersey certification yet. My goal was to get my mom into an assisted living facility by mid-October, I had no guarantee that she would be able to get in there in enough time. It was gorgeous, it was kept very well. Again, there was nobody there, they were just accepting applications for reservations. It was huge. It's a big place, had two floors, gorgeous place, brand new, and little bit more expensive. That was an option. I had a certain dollar amount, so I priced out how much it would cost over a period of time, as I planned a two and a half years of care based on the amount of fund that she had, and she would not have had enough fund to stay at The Landing, it would be less than two years. I talked to the sales person, unfortunately, there was no staff. The tours were done with the sales people and not necessarily the care givers or the program people. When we did the online tour and the online conversation with the other facility, not only was the sales person was on that call, but so as the director and also the program director. They had the chance to interact with mom so it wasn't just sale. We went to The Landing and they really weren't staffed up either. We didn't have the opportunity to talk to a director or any of the program managers or even the staff that was going to be available, because they hadn't been staffed up yet and they hadn't been occupied. They have indoor common areas. They isolate their type of care that they provide between floors as opposed to the other facility where they do it by wings. On the second floor and the first floor, they had separate dining. They also had the cooking facilities. It was a gorgeous place, very attractive, the problem being again, it was brand new, which also meant to me that it was going to take some time for them to get their act together. It would be a great place as a facility. It was clean, but it wasn't staffed. It was also the fact that for the first couple of months, as they started to ramp up their care facility, you'd end up running into the typical bugs on any company that does as a startup, or any facility that does a startup. The sales person that I talked to knew the pricing. She knew the facility and then they have a whole pamphlet area, but frankly, the price point is important, so as the rooms, the facility, and what they offer. I would rank them a four only because, I don't want to say it's brand new, but they're trying basically to sell a facility that had no history. Some questions couldn't be answered because stuff wasn't in place. I think it's a great place, but some of the rankings I also based on the price performance. Their community fee was relatively a problem right where it is, I just thought that their memory care increments were a lot higher from what they offer. It's tough to tell for that they offer, in terms of memory care because frankly, they had no history. When I calculated for mom, the memory care for The Landing would have cost her $1900 versus the $1200 she's paying at the other facility now."

"The staff at Brookdale Echelon Lake was nice. The contact person was very helpful to me. The rooms and everything else were excellent. The cleanliness of the place was very good. They had a nice area at the back. It's on the lakeside, and you can go out there and sit. They had a little patio with grass and everything else. They had movies and a bus to go shopping, medical appointments, and the drugstore."

"It is close to where we live and it would only take me about five minutes to get there from home thus the main reason why I chose this facility for my husband. The place is clean and everybody seemed to enjoy working there. His room is always clean and if he needs anything they were always there to clean it up. The staff cleans his room a couple times per day. The staff are very nice and are always there if he needed anything. They were always running in and seeing if everything was alright. If he pushes his button, they were there within a couple of minutes. They didn't let him wait. I love the food. It was very good. They had activities like sing along. They also had special people come in and do games with them and sing. They are really accommodating and my husband is well taken care of."

"I liked that The Terraces at Lawrence is close to me because I'm the one who would be visiting my sister there. We spoke to some people and they were very friendly, and helpful, and went out of their way to try to accommodate my interest and question. Linda gave me the tour and she was great. The rooms were fine and the dining area was attractive. I especially liked the chapel that was there. I didn't see many people, but it seemed pleasantly friendly. They have games and outings to go places and movies."

"My friend was a resident of Fountain View at Logan Square. They do get you up and around and they don't want the patients to be laying in the bed all the time, and I thought that was very good. The problem is, it's a very good facility, but it's out of a lot of people's reach. I did look at their apartments and it was attached to the rehab center, which I felt was great, but it was pretty expensive. I'm sure there are ways of working it out. I did speak to the person who was in charge of social work there, and she was pretty helpful. It was very nice. They have group sessions, which I felt were very good because she was able to socialize. It was a nice facility. It was just very expensive. I thought this one was one of the nicer ones, mainly because it was also an apartment. They kept it up very nicely. The apartments were very nice, everything seemed to be running very well, and the patient care was very good. Their staff was very good."

"We toured Spring Oak Assisted Living of Berlin. It was very open, bright, and well lit. There's natural lighting and welcoming staff at the front. Just knowledgeable. It's a very upkept facility. There were a lot of nice amenities for the residents. They had a movie area for them. Just the community that was there, and the way it was explained to us, it was a very home-feeling there. They did what they could to promote everything that the residents did to support the facility. They were more proud to talk about the residents than about the staff. It was a very nice facility. The staff members were really helpful. Even as we talked about our specific situation with my mother-in-law, they helped us in ways that we weren't even asking for help, and gave us recommendations on how to handle the situation we were in. They're very kind, caring people."