Assisted Living Communities in Delaware, OH

"I have been to several Assisted Living communities over the last month or so, looking for placement for my Mother. I visited Danbury last week and I have to say, I was very impressed. First off, I love how they decorated the entrance with the fall decor. The staff there were very genuine and helpful. My tour went very well and I felt very informed about the services offered. The head chef even introduced herself and invited me to stay for lunch. I chose not to but the food looked amazing and very appetizing. The residents in the dining room seemed to really enjoy it! The atmosphere throughout the community was very warm and caring. After visiting other communities, we have decided to make Danbury our Moms new home. Thank you Danbury for making this an easy decision for me. "

"I toured Dublin Assisted Living Memory Care. I visited it six years ago for my mother, and I love it now. There's nothing I don't like about it. Aside from being beautiful, it has great outdoor spacing. It has a dog on site, a therapy dog and I appreciate that for the residents. They have a tremendous activity director. But it's just not the right fit for my mom, I suppose. The staff, he's very new to doing the touring job, but he was great. He's been with the company since he was 16; now, 10 years later, he's moved up the ranks, and I thought he did a great job. Any questions I asked that he didn't have answers to, he said he would get back to me. They have a hair salon and a coffee bar. They offered activities, transportation, and physical therapy room, and a wonderful art room. The dogs are a huge amenity. Lots of beautiful outdoor spaces and gardens, vegetable gardens, and flower gardens. I think their pricing is good; it's right on track."

"What really impressed us about Brookdale Trillium Crossing was when we went into the entryway, there were people walking around. Some of them were on crutches, with wheelchairs and walkers, while the other places we visited were kind of deserted and people weren't conversing or talking to one another. So, that made this place kind of a nice and comfortable place to get into right at the beginning. The staff we met were very courteous and professional. They answered our questions in such a nice way. We walked into a two-bedroom and it was a little more spacious than the other places we visited. The living room and the bedrooms were a little larger. The only drawback was the laundry facilities. There was no washer-dryer in the room, but on every floor there was a laundry room where you could take your clothes."

"We went here and the staff was wonderful, very friendly, very warm and welcoming. We saw a model room that was decorated really nice. It was a beautiful one-bedroom. It was really nice. There's a variety of rooms. They had big open spaces. They had a patio that overlooks the equestrian farm next door. They also had a bar or pub area, which was really nice. I felt that their outdoor space was lacking. They had recently expanded, and they took away a beautiful patio (which kind of disappointed me). They had a library. They had nice common seating areas, comfortable furniture, and the buses would take them to their activities."

"Bickford of Worthington was a nice facility. It was an older facility, but the people were very friendly. We are not ready to make a decision at this point yet, but we will keep them as an option. They showed us an empty room with furniture. It was very adequate. It did not have a shower in the bathroom. You have to go to a common shower outside the room. Their reason for it is that they thought sometimes the residents might try to get in the shower without any attendants helping them, and that might be a problem. They had an outside patio, and it had a security fence around it. The staff was very pleasant, knowledgeable, and did a nice job."

"I went to Alpine House of Columbus. It was a great experience. The staff was lovely. The place was lovely. I liked everything that I heard. It was a nice facility. I liked the stairway and they had an elevator, too, so that's a plus. They offer the laundry and help you with your medicine, and they do housecleaning. As far as I could see, everything was nice."

"Sterling House has assisted living and memory care. It's a small facility but very clean and well-taken care of. They have nice rooms. I saw a room with very large closet and pretty good-sized bathroom and another room where the bed and the living area were. I've talked to some of the residents and they're very happy there. They did have activities going on with the people. The community did have a lot of staff and they seemed to be pretty friendly. We also went into their memory care, which was a lockdown unit. I was really impressed with it because they did have a lot of staff for their memory care residents. They only have nine residents but they have two aides to one at all times. Overall, Sterling House is a great community! "

"The Village of Westerville was a nice place. I would live there. They have everything you need. They have transportation, and they take you to grocery stores if you don't have a car. They have little stores inside. They have a little mini-mall area actually. The staff was extremely knowledgeable and very nice, but I just kind of felt rushed. It was all centered around. The apartment seemed kind of small, but it had a huge, nice bathroom. The kitchen was nice. They have no food service at all."

"We're happy with Oakleaf Village of Columbus. It's a good environment for Mom. She likes that the room size is fairly large for a studio. She has a full kitchen, which is something we were looking for. She has a full refrigerator, stove, and microwave. They serve three meals, but you have to buy the third if you want it. They have laundry, medication services, bathing, and clothing assistance, and they have a nurse there that will come in and check your blood pressure and weigh you daily. They provide trash collection and they have transportation to doctors' offices. I've eaten there and it's good. They have a lot of activities."

"I went to Walnut Crossing. I think it's absolutely wonderful. The residents were very, very open, and walking around and talking, and they just seemed so happy. The place was very neat and clean. I didn't get any food, and I had to ask for something to drink again like in the other places. I went into the office with two people and I said, "Could I have something to drink?" And they had a refrigerator right there and they pulled out a bottle of water, which I thought was very good. Both of the ladies that talked to me were absolutely wonderful. I enjoyed them. When I left, the residents were playing bingo, and when I was given a tour there was a huge calendar on the wall, and from the time you got up to the time you wanted to go to bed, there was something for you to do. They had a nice library. They had a nice room to workout/exercise. They had a person who was in charge of all the activities. They had a quilt group for those that liked to do quilting. I absolutely love that place. If I could move in there today, I would do it, but it costs $3,600 a month. Once a month they have a happy hour, where residents can get a beer, or a mixed drink. They had popcorn on movie nights. They just have something all the time."

"I toured Westerwood. I like everything that they're offering. They have several amenities that I like. They have an art program. They have a wood program that you could go in to build things. There would be an artist there all the time. There's an exercise facility where they have exercise equipment, and they have somebody that man's it all the time. The staff was very friendly and very helpful."

"My mother is now at The Forum at Knightsbridge. It has been fine so far. The people seem friendly and take care of my mom. My mother has a studio apartment, which is plenty large enough for the few things she has with her. She gets three square meals a day. Yesterday, they had a USO show, which was great. She has been playing a lot of jigsaw puzzles. So far, it has been working out. They have a small library. She does physical therapy, so she is keeping in shape. They are making sure she gets her dinner and that she goes for her meals. They have given her medicines daily, too. There is a doctor who sees her once a week. Everything is good."

"The staff is very caring and compassionate, and the facility is very clean. They are even providing farm to table food. I am so blessed that my parents are living here."

"The Coventry Senior Living was very pretty. It's only been there for 14 months so it was the newest with the biggest rooms and the most activities. I met the woman who gave me a tour, I met two nurses, the chef, the dining room supervisor, and the receptionist. All of them are very friendly. They stopped at the table where we were talking and chatted for a few minutes. All of them stopped, except the receptionist, because she had to stay in the lobby. I did not eat there but I talked to the chef. He said that they don't open cans and they don't freeze their vegetables. All of their vegetables are fresh. That's the only place where I got any information about food. I just don't know what it would cost for my cousin to go there, and that was the drawback. They were a little vague. They said they're willing to do an assessment, even if we haven't decided she's coming, like on FaceTime or something, because my cousin is not local. So, they said they could do a long-distance assessment, then they could tell us which level of care she would be in. If I were younger and had unlimited time, I could do all these assessments and find out exactly what it would cost everywhere, but I'm not younger. They've got a beautiful library and three dining rooms connected to each other. It's beautifully laid out. It's in a busy neighborhood, a construction zone, so I wouldn't give the neighborhood a high mark, but the facility is beautiful. There's a parking garage."