Assisted Living Communities in Canton, TX

"I was impressed by Autumn Wind Assisted Living Mineola. It was a very nice facility. I didn't find anything that I didn't like about it. Everything that was presented to me was impressive. It was clean and very nice on the inside. All the residents seemed to be happy. I didn't see anybody sitting over by themselves and not doing anything. They were actually in the dining area, getting ready to eat lunch, but they had activities going on before lunch. The rooms were nice. I didn't have any complaints. I was also impressed by the rooms. It was someplace I would like to retire, to be honest. The staff was very friendly and knowledgeable. You asked any kind of questions, they were able to answer them without any hesitation. They gave me a full tour of the place and didn't hold anything back. So, they were great. The structure of the building is very presentable. When you come into the foyer, it is very nice. There's a chandelier hanging in there when you come in. It didn't smell like urine or any of that type of stuff. It had a really good clean air smell to it. I didn't have any faults with them at all. I would have been happy for my mother to stay there. The rooms were decent size. You can bring your own bed, dresser, couch, and TV in there. There was a microwave in the room and the bathrooms were very big for them to get into."

"My brother and his wife will be moving into Arabella of Athens. It was very pleasant, open, and airy. All the staff seemed very nice. They had a chef on duty that cooks meals. They have three different areas. One area is independent living, in which you have a place for your car and a door that leads out from a little apartment. Then they have the assisted living. It also has a little apartment, but it's inside. You can't go outside or anything, and it has no garage. I think if you wanted a garage, you could, but you would not have your vehicles there. We got a 1-bedroom with a kitchen and a walk-in shower. It has lots of flowers and greenery. They have a class three times a week for exercise. They have a green thumb class that you can participate in for flowers, gardening, and stuff. They have a library. There is a movie theater that you can watch movies inside their facility with the popcorn machine. The other types of rooms would be once they go into memory care. I think it was just very good. I haven't tried the food, but I saw it coming out. It was prepared by a chef. They have pretty good choices, and they have selections."

"The staff was very helpful and knowledgeable about the facility and paperwork needed for my mother. The facility was very clean and well maintained, a very lovely home. The food was very nice looked like something you would pay for in a restaurant."

"Cedar Creek Lodge Boutique Senior Living was very nice. The upkeep was nice. Everything was nice about it. The staff was nice. We just couldn't afford it. They had a lot of activities going on and they had a bus. It was fairly new. They were also nice enough to give us some dessert, and it was good. The rooms were very nice. They had hardwood floors. They had two-bedrooms, one-bedrooms, and studios. They had a movie theater and a beauty salon, and it was nice."

"My cousin has been in the Lodge Assisted Living & Memory Care. It's absolutely beautiful. It's very clean. It's very new. It even smells new. The staff is great. You have an option of like an efficiency where your bed is in your living room, and it has a full kitchenette and a big bathroom. Or you can get a small room (around 400 square feet or a little over that) that has a small living room, a kitchenette, and then a separate bedroom. The facility is wonderful. As far as I can tell, the staff is good. But I'm not so happy with the food. I've asked my cousin, "What do you have for breakfast?" And every day it's scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, or oatmeal. I'm not really happy with the food right now and with the price that it is. Like for dinner recently my cousin had chips with chili on them, and I think for that amount of money you should have some fruit and vegetables for your dinner. Or at least I think you should have a fruit for breakfast option. So I have to go buy fruit, and fortunately my cousin has a refrigerator. She can put the fruit in her fridge because her doctor wanted her to eat more fruits and vegetables and less salt (there's a lot of salt in chili and chips). Everything else has been wonderful. I'm hoping they just get the diet fixed soon. I did get a good deal, it's about $4,500 a month in comparison to a lot of places. This facility has just opened in December, so it's brand new, and it is really nice. They have a dementia wing and then they have assisted living. In terms of activities, they don't have a whole lot yet as they're kind of getting off the ground, but they have an exercise group in the morning. It's in this really pretty open area that looks out on a little pond, so it's really nice. They have a smoking area for people that smoke, which a lot of them don't offer. And a lot of these older people have been smoking for a long time and they don't want to give it up now, so they have a smoking porch outside away from all the facilities. It's very clean and very nice. Their maintenance guy is amazing."

"We checked the Oak Wood Place Assisted Living last summer. We toured this place for my sister, but even when my mom was there, I was there pretty much every day, and they had great meals. They took time and really cared for her. All the residents there were really friendly and wanted to sit around and talk. I mean, it was just a really nice place. Well, it was great. It was clean. It's got all kinds of activities and I mean, it's a really good place. I would recommend it. They can go shopping, they have bingo, they have movies, and they have all kinds of activities to involve the residents with, something to keep them busy if they were interested in doing that, and if they weren't that was fine. The food was awesome, it was just like going to a cafeteria."

"My mom has been in Cedar Ridge for quite some time. She was diagnosed to have Alzheimer's disease, and it's really not easy for us her family. That's why we decided to put her in the right place where she will have special care for her condition. We loved the facility and she never had a long adjustment period. She loved to be in this place. They were very supportive and fun. The atmosphere is really friendly. According to mom, the food is really something you will look forward to and I'm really happy about that. They were very wonderful and pleasant. They really helped us so much. "

"Good place to put your mother or father."

"Rosehaven wanted $1,000 a month, plus a $250 deposit. The people were not very friendly and really didn't act like they wanted to assist, to be honest. Just about everybody in the entire place was a mental case, so there's a lot of very crazy people in there. The building was probably about 90 years old, so after a few minutes I told, "I can't do it, I'm out of here." It was a very pathetic and horrible place. I wouldn't live there, and there's no way I would even consider it. The guy who talked to me first was nice, then he shifted me over to the manager of that unit, and she was having trouble finding my hospital records, and they had to have those before they could admit me, and it was obvious that she didn’t know what she was doing. She was eating and talking on her cellphone to people. Nobody was the right person there, nothing was happening, and I wasn't feeling anything good."

"I was very impressed with Wesley House Assisted Living. It's a beautiful place. However, they could not take my loved one because it was very expensive. Also, my loved one takes liquid morphine and she has control of it herself, but they said they couldn't have liquid morphine at the facility. So that cut them out from the get-go. However, if someone had the funds and didn't take liquid morphine, I would highly recommend it. And the community room was very nice. It's kind of like a big living room area. The rooms were small, but other than that, it was very good. And the staff who gave the tour did good. She was very nice."