Brookdale Boulder Creek

This is such a beautiful building and has an amazing outdoor area for the residents to feel at home. I would recommend this Assisted Living home to everyone!

We have a wonderful experience here at Brookdale Boulder Creek. They work very hard and we’re very fortunate to have the people that work here. I would recommend this facility to anyone because it has everything that you could imagine as far as quality of living goes.

We visited Brookdale. It’s very pleasant, and the people were very nice. The room was small but pleasant and had a balcony. The food was reasonably good. The people working there were very communicative, friendly, and very nice.

Brookdale Boulder Creek seemed fine. They had nice-sized rooms; the facilities seemed nice and very clean but not as updated. It was a larger facility, and because my mom has dementia, I was concerned that it would be too big for her that she wouldn’t feel comfortable. I talked to one person, and he seemed nice. They had art classes, bingo, and bridge.

The staff was excellent at Wynwood at Ridge Point. The lady that showed myself and my friend around was wonderful and very nice. But the facility itself is like going to a motel, and the price was less, but not that much less. What turned me off is I am still able to drive and I have a car, but the folks sitting around and playing basketball with a balloon -- although it’s kind of exercise -- it is not something I want to deal with.

Brookdale was beautiful, and I thought that they were more for high functioning people. Since my mother had pretty involved memory issues, I didn’t think it was right for her. The rooms were pretty spacious. The food smells delicious. It was more expensive than the others.

I moved my mother to Wynwood at Ridge Point, and I'm not terribly happy with it. Her room is very clean, and the place is clean, but they are not very good with the laundry. They went to a play today, and they have some trips, bingo, exercise, and crosswords. I've eaten there, and the food is good, but it's frequently cold. There was a petition that went around signed by a lot of the residents about how poor the service of food was. It was served cold, it was late, or it would take forever, but they are improving on that. There is a lack of staff, and my mother came close to dying because there was not a caregiver there. Fortunately, I was there, and I knew how to do the Heimlich, and the director said, "Your mother wouldn't have known how to push that button anyway." I don't like the director; I think she is way in over her head, and I'm not the only one that feels that way. I would love to talk to the owner of this facility.

I'm in Wynwood. It is very professionally run. Everyone is happy doing their jobs, which makes the whole place happy. The food is quite good. They come around every meal and take your order. You get usually 3 choices of entrees and then a couple of alternatives for lunch and dinner. Our chef came from owning her own wine bar café and she's really excellent. She really understands meal preparation and just recently this past month, we did themed entrees. Last month was France and starting in August, it's going to be Greece so that's kind of fun. I started out in the respite apartment that was completely furnished and renovated. When I decided to sign the lease, they even renovated a little more. All the units are being renovated to meet the new toilet heights. My unit faces the inside courtyard which is landscaped with a fountain. When you open your windows at night, you can hear the water. Very relaxing. Several apartments had balconies. My apartment has a private bathroom. They have 2 buses and for today, their main activity was to go to a very popular street with stores for shopping. It was unique and it is reasonable -- prices that retirees can afford. Several people on the first floor have pets that can go out into the courtyard, which I find to be very nice. They do charge quite a bit for the animals. I think a cat is $200 a month and a dog is $400 but that includes walking the dog if necessary. If you can't get out for the day, the care people will come and walk your dog. For the cats, they'll clean the litter box and feed them if you're ill. That's part of their fee. The caregivers are happy and their activity director is just really dear. She leads several classes and rides the bus to various outings. She's in her 40s which is a real nice change for most people in their 80s. I'm in my 60s and we're all hanging out with a woman in her 40s. We have a lot of interaction, a lot of fun going on. The executive director here is in her early 40s as well and very enthusiastic about her job, which is nice.