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. "

"We were impressed with Anchor Bay at Greenwich. It had a nice little enclosed garden that attracted the sun, and a lot of people were sitting out there. It seemed well-equipped and well-run, but we couldn't come to terms with the money, so we did not choose that. We met a number of the staff who were always smiling and helpful. The food seemed to be good, according to a couple of people there. Everybody seemed happy and involved."

"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."

"I live in Atria Senior Living in Lincoln, Rhode Island. It's beautiful. We get excellent care from all of the departments. The food is good, but COVID is doing a job on all these homes that I don't like. We don't have independence anymore, it's terrible. The place itself is well run. The workers are great. They go out of their way to keep us happy. The staff is wonderful. My God, they couldn't be any better. They bend over backward for us. Of course, they had to let people go because of this COVID-19, and it's been a lot different. When it's normal, it's a beautiful place to stay, the trouble is it costs a little bit of money and I'm running out of money. Actually, you can do either independent living or assisted living, but right now I'm in assisted living because I need help from the nurses here. I'm putting in another claim with my long-term claim insurance, so they should handle that very soon. The food is good. We have several good chefs here. They're very good. The activities were very good. In fact, since COVID-19 has taken over, we've missed them terribly, but we have no choice. The director here is excellent because we never had one case of COVID-19 and we're so proud of that. He's very strict and I'm glad about that. I think it's expensive. I'm running out of money and that means I have to look for another place to live shortly. I think I pay $4,400 a month for a studio. I have a nice room. The staff is excellent. They're the best. We all have housekeeping once a week. They change my bed and wash the sheets. Any time anything goes wrong all we have to do is call the desk and they'll send someone up and they'll do whatever they have to do. They're very efficient. I don't participate in too many activities. I just go to the serious meetings, but the people who go for the activities, they love it, and they can't wait for them to come back after COVID is all done. We have to wear masks with everything we do. We can't go outside for a walk around the building unless we have a mask on. We have to sit far away from each other. They're excellent. They're taking excellent care of us. If you're a person with a lot of money, the value is excellent, but when you don't have a lot of money and you go wondering how long you're going to stay here; it's a little bit high. I'm an average resident here. We have had several people that had to move out because it was getting a little bit too high. If they put up the rent again this month, I'm out of here, and I mean it."

"I visited Chapel Hill Senior Living. They were very nice. We very much enjoyed them. What I liked about it is it's a one-floor memory care unit. The staff definitely knew the residents. They called them by name, and then they had conversations as we were walking around. It was very clean. I also liked the fact that they had an area in the back with a garden, and it was not locked, so residents can go out if they want and come back in, and it's all gated. For my dad, who's a little bit more cognitive, to be able to actually go out into that area is very nice, because if it's locked, I think it makes him feel like he's in jail a little bit. The staff was wonderful. Cristina, who gave us the tour, was awesome, very friendly, very knowledgeable, and very helpful. I was super impressed. They had a patio and a courtyard."

"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."

"My mother-in-law has moved into The Branches of North Attleboro. It's beautiful, she loves it more than the last assisted living facility she was in. She said the food there is better. The staff that she deals with is very helpful, and very aware of her needs, and assisting. The bureaus are built right into the wall, so she didn't bring one. She can bring a bed, but we didn't have to bring it because they put her in the hospital bed. The bathroom is very elderly and handicapped-accessible. It's very open; it's an open plan, so there's plenty of room for them to move around. They had happy hour every day. They have between five and six different activities every day throughout the day. It makes everybody happy there. They have a cooking class that they all tend to do. They can have their nails done; they have a hair salon. They have a pianist come in and play music. They have a fitness area where they can do exercises. Usually, that's in the morning. The dining area is open. She's already met a friend where she has all her dinners with. They pair you up with somebody that you should get along with, like a buddy. It's beautiful, very good, and very well maintained. It's only been there for two years; it's a pretty brand-new facility, and it's very well kept. It's a little on the pricey side, it is an out-of-pocket facility. They don't accept state assistance or anything like that, Medicaid, or Medicare or whatever."

"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."