The Best Continuing Care Retirement Communities Communities in Middlesex County, CT

"My daughter is in Apple Rehab Cromwell for rehab. They are well-equipped and staffed. She's in a private room. They have a dining hall and activity room. It's an older building. The staff is fine."

"My uncle was a resident of Essex Meadows. If I can afford Essex Meadows I'll live there. I mean, it has these little cottages that you can be in or you can be in a condo kind of situation, or they have a main building for acute care and they have a helipad there if you need to be taken. They also have doctors and nurses on site. My uncle said the food was excellent. They are surrounded by a golf course. It's good for people who are still active not to have to drive to a golf course. They can go out and play golf right outside their facility. They have activities like other places. The value for money is top-notch."

"I toured Masonicare At Ashlar Village. I think they had some of the nicest rooms that I've seen. It was a clean facility. The people were very pleasant. The food was good. They offered a lot of activities. The staff members were very accommodating and attentive. I felt it was a quality facility."

"Evergreen Woods was fabulous. I liked the congeniality, the food was terrific, they had a private dining room set up, and we could have steak or anything. I have two cats and two dogs, and the CEO came down to me and said, "Don't worry, we'll have all your pets." Everybody we saw was lovely and willing to help; that was very nice. They had everything, and everything was spotlessly clean. It made sense where everything is located -- everything was near to your room or your apartment. The quality is just really good."

"My dad has been a resident at Middlewoods in Newington since August 2015. Since my mom passed, my sister & I were looking for a place where he could maintain his independence while being under a watchful eye. We are beyond pleased with the administration, the nurses and all the assistants who get my dad through his day. Each employee is friendly, upbeat, patient and engaging. The activities each week are excellent (great parties, too!) The dining room is lovely & shares a very attentive staff who make quite sure that the resident is satisfied with the meal. My dad's apartment is clean, comfortable and just the right amount of space. I highly recommend Middlewoods of Newington!! "

"Elim Park Place is extremely nice, extraordinary, and high-end. It is very expensive. It has everything and anything you would need. There are three or four restaurants and some cafes. It's a very large place."

"So far, I haven't found anything that I like least about Jerome Home & Arbor Rose. What I like best is they are very understanding, willing, and very helpful when it comes to working with my mom and she seems to enjoy the other residents. The staff is very accommodating, very helpful, and extremely friendly. The facility is extremely clean. Some parts of the building are older, but it's still beautiful. My brother saw the activities and he was impressed, and he's the kind of person who is hard to impress."

"My mother is in Ellis Manor. I think it is serving her very well. They are taking good care of her. However, it is struggling like a lot of the nursing homes. They’re struggling right now because of funding, and it is not their fault. However, the overall care is excellent. They’re taking very good care of my mother. She needs more care now than she did before. My mother has her own her room, but she shares a bathroom with somebody else. It is not spacious because it’s a nursing home, but she has a TV and her bed. It is nothing like living in a facility, but they are taking very good care of her. Right now, they’re in the process of changing how they do care for people there. They’re dropping their staff for one thing, and they’re also putting a new thing at the place, that if you’re walking by and somebody needed your help whether you were their aide or not, you are to go in and help them no matter what. I think they’re upping their care level. I think they’re trying to do the best they can. "

"I toured Avery Heights. It's a beautiful place, it looked like they have a camaraderie there among the guests. It was very well kept, and it was beautiful inside. The staff was very nice. The rooms were very well laid out, it was spacious enough."

"The rooms are spacious and clean. The nursing staff is attentive and caring. Physical Therapy team is professional and work diligently to meet the goals of each patient. The kitchen staff work nicely together to prepare good home cooked meals and serve the residents with care. Activities are always in place for residents. Overall a great facility with approachable administration and nursing staff."

"We visited Middlewoods of Farmington and my husband is not qualified for that, but it's wonderful. The director there was unbelievably wonderful. She has contacted us many times and she has referred us to other places, which I have on the list to visit. My husband is not eligible because he has a level of dementia and they said they don't think that they can take him. I've toured the bedrooms and I've toured the whole thing, and it's wonderful. The staff during the tour was very, very knowledgeable. The bedrooms were very nice. We looked at a one-bedroom unit, and it has a little kitchen area. We wanted something larger than that, but it was not available to visit. The one that we looked at was very adequate and well equipped. The only thing that you didn't pay for was cable. They've sent food over, and it was really good. They have physical education and somebody comes in and does that. They take people on trips, they have movies, and they have a lot of things going on. They have cooking classes, they have games, bowling and television bowling, and bingo and my husband was going over there for penny poker, which he loved."

"Right now, my brother is in a nursing home at Village Green of Waterbury. We were there before, and then he was out for a couple of weeks, but now he is back there to get strength. My brother is still weak, but he is getting physical and occupational therapy there. He is also getting manual dialysis four times a day, but he is not able to do much more there until he gets stronger. The staff's work ethic is very good. The rooms are very fine; they're roomy. With regards to food, if you eat in the dining room, it is very nice, but if you eat and get it from the floor below, it is always cold. "

"We moved to The McAuley a year ago and love the independent living here. We continue to live our lives as we did before we came, visiting friends and families, but not we also have the friendship of the other residents. And we are free of the troubles related to home and condo ownership!"

"My mother has been in Welles Country Village for a couple of days now, and so far everything is great. The food is good. The room is spacious and pretty. It is newly painted and has new carpeting. It has a living room, a bedroom, and a kitchenette. We coose it because you can stay there once you run out of money. "