34 Assisted Living Facilities in Bucks County, PA

Brookdale Northampton has a lot of employees. They are very caring people and there’s tons of activity for the residents to do (a whole calendar full every month). My mom intermingles with the other people and she has a special friend that she has her meals with and she’s very satisfied. She has a sink, a little refrigerator, cabinets, a bed, a rocking chair, two other chairs, a full bureau, and a TV in her room. The staff is just excellent. Their facility is exceptionally clean and very well taken care of. (read less)

My mother is doing good at The Birches at Newtown. We like it very much. They all take it very personally. They treat my mom like their grandmother. The staff members are good. They take care of everything. They clean, they do her laundry, and they give her, her medication. I don’t have to worry about anything. The food I had was good. They have bingo, arts and crafts, sing-alongs, and karaoke. Today, they had a chef demonstration. It could be a little bit cheaper though. (read less)

I had many visits/phone calls with Iris and Tom trying to get my Dad a room at Woodbourne Place. Unfortunately, my Dad passed before we were actually able to move him in. We did tour Woodbourne and several other senior living communities in the area and Woodbourne was, without a doubt, the nicest, cleanest and friendliest of them all! Anyone looking to place a loved one in an assisted living community should keep Woodbourne at the top of their list. Thank you Tom and Iris for all you tried to do for my family! Joyce N. (read less)

I went to Holland Village. It was very sterile and hospital-like. They were in the process of doing renovations, and they were taking up the carpets and using a tile floor instead. It gave me a very hospital feel, and did not give me a feel of welcoming, or a place that I would want to live. The staff member, she was fine and, you know, we kept asking where all the residents were, because like nobody was out. We saw two residents there. She just kept answering that they just had breakfast and they must be all in the rooms. It just seemed odd, compared to the other places that no residents were out about, except these two, but seemed like they were there to give the place five stars. They talked it up whenever we saw them, but it was really like just the two people. The rooms were OK. They were nice. They had kitchenettes, but they were not large rooms. We looked at a studio, and also a one-bedroom, and I think this is the place where the refrigerator was right next to the bed, and I figured that would be very disturbing to somebody to have a refrigerator humming in their ear all night. They’re all private rooms, they have their own bath. The dining area was a very large room, considering that if they just had breakfast, they must have cleaned up really fast because it was clean, surprisingly clean. If they just finished breakfast, I would expect more people walking around and cleaning up. So, it made me wonder if they actually eat in the dining room. They had a library, the dining hall, hairdressing, all the standard amenities you would find. She even took us down into the basement area where she was telling us that there was also more shops and stuff, but it was like behind a locked door that we never got to see. At that point, I wanted to leave the place anyway. It’s not some place I would put my mom. When we checked out the community bathroom, there were a couple of stalls, and it wasn’t clean. Everything else was clean, but the bathroom wasn’t. (read less)

It is beautiful and very clean. The grounds are beautiful; it’s very green. The staff was very nice and the menu looked diverse. They were doing some kind of an exercise type of activity with a large ball when I was there. They also had a game room. It’s two floors, and each floor has a little living room. There were fireplaces too. I’d like to go and live there myself. It was really nice, so I picked it for my husband. (read less)

Wesley Enhanced Living Doylestown was a great place. It seemed like they had everything that my parents needed. We visited independent living and assisted living. The staff was very nice, very helpful, and very welcoming. They had a salon, a big library, a pool, and a rooftop deck, which I thought was awesome. They had a restaurant area that had a pizza oven and you could get all sorts of sandwiches and hamburgers. They had a movie theater watching area that we thought was pretty nice. They had a lot of things that were very nice there. When we were touring, there was a group of employees having lunch in an area where they do arts and crafts and stuff. Everybody was super nice, friendly, and welcoming. We were interfering in their lunch, but they were super nice. They explained a couple of things to us and answered questions. (read less)

The Solana Doylestown was a nice place. We just looked at the assisted living there. We only had interaction with a couple of staff members there, but it was super nice. We visited there twice. My husband and I went once and then we went with his parents. It’s a very nice facility. The rooms were very updated and very pretty. The actual common areas were gorgeous. They were super, super warm and cozy and nice and updated. My parents felt the room was too small, but it was very nice. The bedroom had carpet, the living area had a laminated floor and the kitchen area was just like a kitchenette kind of thing. I thought there was a lot of wasted space in the room. It was a one-bedroom that we looked at and they told us they only had four two-bedrooms there and they were all taken. I had told them if one opened up to give us a call because I liked it a lot. The bathroom was nice. The shower was nice and easy to get in and out of, and there’s seating in the shower. They had a little salon there and a nice common area up on the second floor with the movie theater room and a popcorn machine. While we were there, they had some musicians singing and playing guitar. We toured on Valentine’s Day and they were fixing to have a Valentine’s party. They had animals in there, which I find inviting and homey. They had a nice art room that I thought was pretty cool and a nice little library area. The first time that we visited there, they were having a little afternoon wine and beer party, and people seemed to be enjoying it. At the front entrance, there was a nice little bar area. I liked the dining area there, too. When you walk in, you can see right through the dining area and there was a nice outdoor space. It was a smaller facility, so they were aware of their various residents and their needs, and they seemed to be very thoughtful about that. That was something I like there. The staff who gave us the tour twice was awesome. She’s lovely, really explained things, answered all my in-laws’ questions and they’re memory-impaired a bit and they kept asking the same ones and she was so patient and very, very nice. It was a very nice facility, very clean and very well kept. (read less)

The Assisted Living facility Heartis in Yardley is a lovely community. The staff are so friendly and the facility itself is beautiful. As I consider options for my future, I think that Heartis in Yardley is the type of community I would choose. My thanks to the dedicated staff who continue to work so hard to provide such wonderful care. (read less)

After what I saw & my family experienced, I would not in good conscious recommend Chandler Hall’s rehab wing/nursing home, or assisted living wing to anyone (I can’t speak to their independent living area as I have no first hand experience with that portion. My father, who suffers from dementia, was at Chandler for close to a three week period. He had two rehab stays, each lasting a week long, as well as a 5 day respite stay in the Hicks Memory Care assisted living unit in between his two rehab stays. Over this period I was very disappointed & shocked by the lapses in basic care by the staff, here are some of the many issues I encountered; 1. during my father’s first rehab, I arrived three days in a row by midday to find my father not wearing his dentures and not knowing where they were. The staff neglected to make sure his dentures were in before he was taken to breakfast so he had to gum his food three days in a row. I had complained to staff including the nursing director after the first instance and yet it continued for two more days. One of the days I found his dentures in the pocket of the pants he wore the night before which were in the hamper waiting to be laundered. (note: staff assisted with undressing and dressing my father each day and did not check the pockets obviously). I’m glad I found his dentures before his clothes were taken to be laundered or who know if we would’ve found his dentures. 2. One day came into my father’s room to find an industrial dryer on the floor drying the room’s carpet. At first I assumed they had done a routine carpet cleaning but upon finding my father’s socks sopping wet in the hamper, I questioned the staff about it and they informed me that during the night the sink pipe had burst and flooded the room (Note: I had spoken to the same staff a short time earlier yet they had chosen not to inform me of the flooding until I questioned things later). 3. One day I arrived to find my dad’s beard had been completely shaved off by staff. In 40 years I had never seen my dad without a beard. I was at Chandler Hall for 7-10hours a day, every day, yet staff never thought to ask me how my father likes his facial hair kept & took it upon themselves to shave him during the small window of the day I was not by his bedside. They could’ve just looked at the multitude of photos we had put in the room of my father…all of which showed him with a beard to see he wears a beard! When your loved one has dementia they are confused by a lot of things, the last thing you want them being confused about is the face their seeing in the mirror. 4. One day I arrived to not find my father in his room, I went to the big TV room to see if they had wheeled him in there as they had started to take him there after breakfast (even though he preferred to remain in his own room where he had his own personal TV). He wasn’t in the TV room either, I was heading towards the physical therapy office to see if they had brought him down for a session and out of the corner of my eye I saw my dad’s legs sticking out in another room. I went in to find my father fast asleep in another woman’s room/bed. Somehow my father was able to get himself down a different hallway, into this woman’s room, get out of his wheel chair and into her bed and fall asleep…all that time and yet I am the one who arrived at Chandler mid-day & found him there before anyone on the staff (who are up & down the hallways) noticed he was there. 5. Every day the call-button phone outside the nurses station would be ringing continually throughout the day. I watched on numerous occasions as Staff would just walk by the phone not even glance at the phone to see who in what room was calling for help. Why even have call buttons and chords in rooms if staff is just going to ignore them when residents use them?!? I also watched as other residents in wheel chairs would verbally ask for the help of staff as they walked by, only to have the staff ignore them and walk past. 6. Mealtime in the nursing home dining room can be described as a very inefficient, disorganized, mess. You have to witness it firsthand to understand fully. 7. During his 30 day respite stay at Hicks (which I cut short after only 5 days), bringing things to the attention of my dad’s main "personal care giver" when I witnessed very odd or alarming behaviors from my dad often just got a very nonchalant, dismissive response from her, with her often saying "the dad you know is slipping away", "it’s a whole new ballgame now", or "all the old rules no longer apply." While that may be true to some extent, I know my father’s better than anyone and would hope that if I’m alarmed by something I’m seeing and I bring that to the attention to staff, it would at least get investigated and checked into before being dismissed. 8. Chandler is very aggressive at getting agreements signed and making sure they got paid promptly on day one (which I was fine with) yet when I ended my father’s respite stay early due the all the deficiencies In care I had witnessed, they take 30 days to refund our money back to us. In addition, I had to call after 30 days had elapsed because we had not received the promised refund check in the promised allotted time only to be told that someone had forgotten to submit it so we had to wait an additional week for their next check run. 9. In two different rooms my father stayed in, the sink dripped 24hrs a day. In general the place is showing it’s age and is a depressing environment Not all is negative at Chandler, there were some positives, I really liked the Physical therapy staff who are there onsite (note: they are employed by an outside company…not by Chandler). The Lunch Cafe, which is located in another building separate from the Building that contains the nursing home/rehab & Hicks Memory care unit and is where many of the staff eat is awesome. Matt the head chef & his staff do an outstanding job! I wheeled my father there for lunch often as it was a much more pleasant environment (and much better food) for him & I to have lunch together at. There were some other very competent and good staff members I encountered but unfortunately the bad far outweighed the good and in good conscious I couldn’t continue to have my father there. It’s a shame as due to his and my family’s familiarity with the place (his grandmother spent her final years there in the 70s) Chandler was where we had hoped my dad could spend his final months/years. But I saw too many lapses in basic care and too many substandard issues which to me indicate a bigger overall systemic problem going on over at Chandler as opposed to just a couple of substandard employees dropping the ball, so as a result we pulled my father out of there and got him into another facility which has not only been much better care wise, but also surprisingly less in cost than Chandler. I encourage anyone looking for a facility for their loved ones to investigate & look around as there are other places doing a better job than Chandler is doing currently. (read less)

My mother is living in the Legacy Gardens of Bristol. She seemed to like it. They have doctors on staff, so she doesn’t have to leave the facility to go see a doctor. They need to upgrade their activities for the seniors. Everybody is very friendly. Besides watching TV in the common area, they do have social activities for the seniors. They have a salon and a lady that comes around who does their nails and stuff like that. My mother gets a veteran’s benefit, so that will help her out quite a bit. (read less)

Pickering Manor looked beautiful, but I think I only spent five minutes the whole time there. They didn’t even really want to show me around. I was only able to see the rooms because I forced them to show me and I thought the rooms were beautiful. I just found it a little rude that it had to be me saying, "Can I see a room? Can I see something?". That was my main problem. I live in the same neighborhood, so I found it very rude that I am in the same township. (read less)

Everything with Allegria at the Oaks has been good. I worked with Leah, she’s one of the directors there. Any time I have questions about anything, she calls me back and they give me all the answers. They’re on lockdown right now because of the outbreak, so they’ve been Facetiming my dad with me. He has dementia, so he has his good days and bad days, but all in all, he’s good so far. So our move-in experience has been good. They have two different parts, one is just care and the other one’s memory care. He’s not used to eating the facility food. It’s very, very clean. I’ve never seen an assisted living or nursing home so clean. I like that there’s not a lot of people, they have about 90 people in total. Right now, they just went back to activities because they had a COVID outbreak. They have bingo, music, and they play games. (read less)

We chose Heartis Bucks County, and my sister is moving there. It was brand new and the people were very friendly, and they answered all my questions. The rooms are adequate. The dining area was beautiful. They have a lot of activities going on all the time, gardening, movies, and chair yoga. The person who gave the tour was excellent. (read less)

Juniper Village at Bucks County was nice, and the inside looked lovely. Each apartment had a screened patio with a lovely view. There were trees everywhere. I have a small dog, so they said I could have an apartment on the first floor to let the dog out on the patio. It seemed very nice. The kitchen was nice, and the surroundings were lovely. They’re going to redo my bathroom because I want a roll-in shower. The staff member who toured me around was great. She was very knowledgeable and very caring, and I was very comfortable talking to her. The dining room was very nice and had restaurant seating and restaurant-quality food. (read less)

We came in for a scheduled tour with the Admissions person. The receptionist was very nice and offered us something to drink while we waited. The Admissions person, came out and immediately said that we don’t have a scheduled tour and she is too busy to tour us now. This was not the first impression we expected from a senior living community providing services to our elderly Mom. We explain that we set something up with her last week and she continued to deny it. We pulled out a copy of the email she send to us and the confirmation. She apologized, but we also were embarrassed cause her rant and belittling was in front of other people, including other elderly patients and staff members. Several of the staff members apologized to us before the Admissions person did. A couple said she is like this a lot of the time, one joking said, she used to be the activities manager. Oh my God. Needless to say during the tour, we were very rushed and her reaction to her own issues made the tour not comfortable. We are not placing our Mom here, mainly due to the Admissions manager at the Assisted Living. (read less)

My mom has moved into Pine Run Lakeview. We pretty much got her in there, and she loves the food. The staff is fantastic. They have excellent food. The room she has is perfect for what she needs. She’s very happy. She does physical therapy there as per her doctor, but they have a lot of activities to be involved in. There’s something to do every day. The dining rooms are beautiful. They’re very aware of the COVID situation; you’ve got to have your temperature checked when you walk in, and you have to wear a mask when you enter. It’s clean, beautiful, and it’s perfect for her, So far, so good. As we were going through this process, we looked at a lot of other places. For the money we’re spending, it exactly fits into our budget. There were others that we couldn’t afford. I mean, we could have, but it wouldn’t have lasted very long or money. (read less)