Assisted Living Communities in Media, PA

"The tour at Merrill Gardens at Glen Mills was excellent. It was very beautiful. The staff was gracious. They made you feel welcome. The person who did the tour was wonderful and very informative. They were very helpful, very pleasant, and very accommodating. What I've seen of the food, and what was I told about the chef and all, if I chose that place, I would be very happy."

"The staff seems nice and pleasant, and I feel that it is the right location and right facility for my uncle. We've tried the food and it was great! My uncle's room is fine and he's happy when he moved in. "

"The Quadrangle was very warm, welcoming, and beautiful. Everyone was very nice. I liked the apartment that they offered me. The food was excellent, and the staff was wonderful, knowledgeable, and explained all their plans and showed me every feature that they had there. It was just a wonderful tour. "

"I am a resident of Bellingham at West Chester. It's a very nice community, and very well set up. I love the way they have their meal plan set up there. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all available. For dinner, it's a white tablecloth restaurant that you go into. You can get a five-course meal at dinner if you choose or you can take and get a pizza or wings if you would like to. Compared to other communities in this area, it offers a very good value. It was completely redone for me before I moved in. The kitchen is small, but the kitchen has all new appliances in it. The luxury vinyl tile was put in the kitchen and living room, bathrooms, and a new very low-cut pile carpet was put in the bedroom. The entire apartment was painted. The apartment does have a balcony. I am at wheelchair level, and I can take and access the balcony with no problem with my wheelchair. The bathroom is not an issue. It was well designed with ADA standards which is very well incorporated into the bathroom. The people there have been very helpful. The sales manager has been tremendously helpful as far as getting me in and because of my situation, I haven't had any way to get much of my stuff moved, and they were able to take and provide me with the furniture and that sort of thing that I can take until my stuff gets there."

"The rooms were small in Ivy Gables. However, it was decorated beautifully and clean. I didn’t see a lot of interactions; I only saw six people, and they looked like they had memory issues. They have a comprehensive program for medication and care, but the price is a little high. The dining area was very nice and looked dignified and classy. "

"I toured Daylesford Crossing. It's a wonderful place, with wonderful people and very modern-looking rooms. The staff knows every resident by name, so everybody is on a first-name basis. They took me to their physical therapy room and event room. They were doing some events when I got there. They were having a magic show. They didn't have the level of care that my parents needed, but it was one of the top ones that we liked. They had a very small library. They had someone come once a week to do hair and nails. The gym was the physical therapy room, so it was a smaller room. It was more like an apartment building."

"Because I wanted to just go away for a week or so, I inquired about Forwood Manor. Everything there seemed very pleasant. However, once I've heard the details of respite care and if I qualify, I didn't get into any real details about the whole facility. The place was very clean and everything seemed nice. The one staff that I met was very friendly. I didn't see any activities though. "

"I visited Sunrise of Haverford, which happens to be a mile away from my family. Their facility is very light, airy, and sunny with nothing dark in it and everybody seems to really like each other, so it has a very agreeable climate. We were very happy with it. In a month or so, I’ll move in. The staff is very agreeable, very likeable, and like each other. I liked them, and we had a great time. They almost forgot to take down my statistics because we were talking so much. "

"My mom stayed for a year in Sunrise of Westtown. Our experience with them had been very good. I have nothing bad to say about it. The rooms and dining room were nice, though I thought the food was not great, just decent. They had someone to come in and play the piano and also had bingo. Sometimes they would work in the garden and sometimes they would bake cookies. Overall, I liked Sunrise at Westtown. They needed to improve their food, but I would still highly rate them. "

"Brittany Manor didn't provide respite care services. Going in there, it was more for people who are mentally challenged. Before I went in, there was a resident already asking me for money while I was sitting in my car, and then when I went in, there was another resident who was asking me for money, and food, and whatever I had in my hand. The person who walked me around was a five. My experience trying to confirm that I had a tour was a one or a zero. I called to confirm, and no one seemed to be able to confirm with me that they were aware that I was coming. They said they would get back to me, and no one ever got back to me, so I just wound up showing up, and the person who gave me the tour was very friendly. However, she wasn't necessarily prepared to provide a tour. The place was very disheveled. Whoever owned the place before, that signage was still up there. The facility smelled as soon as I got in the door. The staff pretty much mentioned this is for people who have mental disabilities. The room I saw wasn't dirty. It's just that everything looked old. Everything didn't look like it was maintained properly. That's not a place I would recommend for anybody. It didn't seem like the patients were even well taken care of. The people that I talked to on the phone were not professional in my book, and telling me that you're going to get back to me, and then you still don't get back, that was very concerning."

"We visited and it was just comparable to the other facilities we visited in terms of food, care and the staff."

"Sunrise of Paoli is the best we found for mom. She's been there for 2 months now. Its 10 minutes away from my house. We had some food, it was nice. They have multiple choices. The food is served well. They take the residents on outings. For indoor activities, there's music and cooking classes. This place is excellent. "

"Arbour Square at West Chester's rooms was nice, new, and clean, but the rooms were too small. The staff seemed fine."

"Symphony Square was lovely. The rooms were rather small but very pretty and comfortable. They didn't have enough activities for me though. I did see some amenities there, but I'm not ready for this place. I was with my daughters, and we all thought that it was lovely. Even the food looked good. If I needed a place like that, I would go there; I would not hesitate, but I'm not ready for it."