Assisted Living Communities in Cranston, RI

"It was very nice and homey. The dining area was set up like a restaurant. They do quite a bit, they go on day trips and do stuff like games they could play. The neighbourhood was nice and it was 3 miles from the hospital. It was easily accessible. The staff did a great job. "

"I am so thrilled and content to see my mother safe, cared for, entertained and happy - she just moved into the Memory Care unit. Sarah is awesome and a wonderful unit director!!! The staff is caring and the facility is lovely! I walked in to see my mom singing to Sweet Caroline with a local musician. Life is sweet now that she is in Bay Spring. Thank you to Sharon and Susan who were very supportive during her move. "

"My sister moved into All American Assisted Living at Warwick. The place is great. It was the cleanest place I had seen. They handled all the care I needed for my sister. The staff is fabulous and very, very helpful. The food is very good. My sister's eating three meals a day plus snacks. When she was at home, she wasn't eating at all. She has a private room, and it's a great size. The grounds are very well-kept, very well decorated, and very clean. They have a lot of things for activities. They go out for rides. They were picking apples one day. They play cards. She's always active there. They have like 10-12 activities per day, so she can pick whatever she wants to do."

"Wingate Residences on Blackstone Boulevard was fantastic. It's a great facility. We liked that they were the only ones with an early-stage memory center. They have a nice movie theater, a therapy area, and a nice private kitchen that they can use to cook. The staff was also really nice."

"Anchor Bay at East Providence was very nice. It was a beautiful place and everything, I just didn't like that you have to furnish it yourself, and then they had that $3500 one-time fee you have to pay upfront. If you have to pay that, then your monthly thing, and then you have to buy all your furniture, I just think it's a little too much right now. All the staff seemed very nice, and even the residents that were there seemed nice. There were activities. There were some games that they were playing. The size of the rooms was good. We saw the dining room and the kitchen. It all looked very nice. It was well maintained. "

"Our experience with Anchor Bay at Greenwich was excellent. The staff was also excellent. The rooms that we saw were larger than we expected and were very clean. We saw their dining area which was also nice. It was like a restaurant type. There were menus and you get to select what you eat."

"I toured Smithfield Woods Senior Living. The room is a decent size for a couple and could be a little bit bigger. It was very well-maintained. The two people I spoke with were polite and courteous and answered most of my questions."

"Dad is at Brookdale Centre of New England. He was in assisted living for a year and we had some issues with the management of medications. I felt things weren't charted or written down properly or completely enough. So, if there's a resident who has meds from the VA. and they can't get them free from the VA, they're not calling the VA and getting them ahead of time. Instead, they're calling the local pharmacy and then asking the family member to pick up the medication OR they wait until the medication is completely out and then inform us that the medication is out when they're supposed to do it like 8 to 10 days ahead of time. So, I found that that was a little tough. Other than that, they've always been good with my dad. They've always made sure that he gets to his meals and his clothes are clean. Any time that there was ever an issue, they always got on it immediately. Communication between the nurses and myself was always good. I could always reach out and get help no matter what. My dad loves it there actually. They have a daily calendar every day for activities. He went to the movie center all the time to watch movies, they had Bombshell Betty who was an actress and she'd come and sing, and Tiki Tuesdays, which he loved. A family member could go with him if there weren't any COVID concerns. So, that was always fun."

"My mom has moved into Chapel Hill Senior Living. She is in the memory care unit, which is a small, closed-door unit with no more than 30 residents, somewhere between 25 and 30. When I went there, everyone was so warm and friendly. They call it a Montessori approach to memory care. They keep it as social and as active as possible; some people are more active than others, but my mother is in the middle, and she can still participate in things. The activities they have are quite varied. They have arts and crafts, and I couldn't believe the things they provided for them to do. I saw some of the products, a little birdhouse that they paint, and I saw a rabbit probably about 12 feet tall that they could paint and put on the door. They play bingo and they have music at least twice a week. They take them on what they call mystery rides. I think the reason they just call it a mystery ride is that if you tell someone in memory care where you're going, they're going to hold on to that. The first mystery ride that my mother had, she went to a petting zoo, and she was thrilled. They bring in therapy animals at least twice a month. Some of them are farm animals and some of them are just dogs and cats. The women that run the place as the activity directors are lovely. My mother was braiding Bella; she is one of the directors. Bella has pictures of my mother putting all braids in her hair because my mother used to do that for her grandchildren. They're very skillful at finding the things that they may be interested in. I was so thrilled with this particular place. They have a lovely courtyard where they do cookouts and you can sit out; it's all fenced in, so it's safe. I was so thrilled that I didn't need to look anyplace else. I had seven on my list for that day and I canceled the other six; they didn't matter because this place is more than fine. They have a 24-hour visiting schedule, you can go anytime, it's an open-door policy. The dining area is adorable. It looks like a mini restaurant, a nice restaurant with tables, tablecloths, curtains on the window, and a nice floor. I've had three meals there and the food is very good. From what I understand, everything is baked on the premises and cooked fresh. They use the herbs from their garden. Their chef is supposed to be a five-star chef; I believe it because the food is good. The person that helps you get the placement there, assists the families in coming to Chapel Hill. She's the one that told me to get my mom into the rehab facility, and she also facilitated it. She went to the rehab place, had a meeting with the director, and got my mother in for rehab before moving in here. I would like to give accolades to Bethany, she helps above and beyond anything. She's just a lovely human being that wants to make sure the families are well taken care of, and that the memory care patient is happy."

"We toured Brookdale Attleboro. It was very nice. It was on the small side, very compact, but everything was there, whatever we needed. They had a little courtyard, which would have been adequate. The people who took us around were all very nice."

"We checked out Clifton Assisted Living. It's a beautiful place, but it's way out of my parents' price range. They have all the activities for them. They have exercise for them. They have a 'Yum-Yum room' with snacks, cookies, and other treats all day long for them. They can come and go as they want. If it weren't for the price, I would like my parents to go in there. The residents even let me go into the two-bedroom apartments to look at them. They were very nice. My parents would really enjoy that. My mom didn't have to cook anymore if she didn't want to. All their meals are there. They have a kitchen downstairs, and she could go downstairs and cook if she really wanted to, because my mother really enjoys cooking. So that's a plus. I took a bunch of pictures when I was there. They have a library, an entertainment room, and a bar where they serve drinks. They have entertainment that comes in. They can go down there and socialize by the fireplace. They had bingo that was going on. They have an exercise person who comes in. Seven days a week, they have a nurse and nurses' aides 24/7 in there. The staff I met was very nice. They even had a slushy machine in their Yum-Yum room. Family can stay there for a week, and they won't charge you. So that was a nice feature, too. Like a family will stay the night before to get them ready the next morning to go to a doctor's appointment, and I thought that was really nice. That was a plus. They're not too crazy about having dogs, but I understand that. A lot of people have cats, but dogs are another problem. They have everything. They even have a hairdresser and a hairdresser's place."

"We toured Brookdale Sakonnet Bay. It's just down the road from us. There was a very popular restaurant there, and they've done a wonderful conversion of that property for the venue. I enjoyed the very comfortable and welcoming feeling you get as you walked in the door. I'm very attracted to the swimming pool and the hot tub, but I enjoyed the additional services they offered along with the excellent care like the 24-hour call. The young girl was very informative and let us in a few "secrets" which was very nice, it was very enjoyable, and she was so open. Most of the people that I encountered made you feel that you belong there. You just feel very welcome."

"My mom moved into All American Assisted Living at Wrentham. I chose it because it was like the first one I went to, it was close to my house, and it was very clean. Everybody there is awesome. My mother has not complained about the food. She eats every meal. There's a lot of activities. They give a flier every day and they do them all day long. They do exercises, bingo, bowling, arts and crafts, and puzzles. They play games, like a Jeopardy type thing."

"I went to see the assisted living facility of All American Assisted Living at Raynham. The residents were all very mobile, except for the people who were all asleep on the front porch in the rocking chair, which was absolutely awesome. They were out there enjoying the sun, and it was one of those nice warm days in October, so most of them were asleep. Everybody was taken care of, and everything just looked perfect. The decor was wonderful. I'm sure they hired somebody really wonderful to do the matching of the decor, because it works. They had everything you'd ever want. They had rooms for physical fitness, art, playing games, reading, and just about anything you could think of, and they had a place for it."