Water's Edge of Bradenton

Water's Edge of Bradenton is a wonderful place to live. It is a community with three buildings: assisted living and memory, independent living, and activities, which is good. It has awesome activities. We have a great, heated swimming pool. The apartments are big and very well situated. The best thing about the apartments compared to what I have seen is the size and the facilities. I have been here for seven years now, and it's a good place. The food is excellent, and the staff is great.

This facility is terrible. My father was a resident here and they were understaffed and often left the residents unattended in the memory care unit. My dad lost a lot of weight and they didn't always assist him with his meals. The facility was unable to meet even his basic needs, to the point they called 911 numerous times. We had to get ACCA involved and work with an ombudsman. The staff was rude and lacked compassion. We moved him to another state and he was near death after being at Waters Edge for about a month. Stay away!

Water’s Edge is a very nice, new place, but very expensive. The surrounding area wasn’t as nice. The rooms were spacious. I had one meal which was good and the dining area was good, too

My mother is at Water's Edge of Bradenton. It is very nice. She has a fairly large apartment, and it seems pleasant enough. She says the food is good; she gets breakfast and dinner. They have a bus that takes the residents places they can sign up for, church services for Catholics on Thursdays, bus transportation on Sundays, bridge club, crossword puzzle club, and crafts club.

Water's Edge of Bradenton is beautiful, but it is really expensive. The facility is a multistory building. They have a beautiful dining room. They also have all the amenities of assisted living with medication and stuff like that. Even in the retirement area, they have a small section for assisted living, and they have a separate dining room there, too. We have friends at Water's Edge of Bradenton. They love it there. They have been there since it opened up. They’re just regular retired people. They don’t need assisted living. They love everything that goes on there. There are all kinds of activities. They have the same ones as other places, but the facility is a newer building, so the library is more extensive and bigger. I met the director of human resources, and she was very nice. The receptionist was very nice, too. The doorman knows everybody, i.e., who’s coming and going. It is like a gated community but way more expensive. You have to have money to live there, that’s for sure, but we like it.

I very much liked Water's Edge of Bradenton. They have the best selection of spaces and rooms. You can get virtually anything you want there, including separate villas.

I like Water's Edge; it’s close, and it’s a gated community. My friend is going to be with assisted living with very minimal assistance with a companion. They’re very nice, and I know a person that used to live there a few years ago. It’s beautiful like a resort; it’s outstanding, clean, and decorated. It has a gym, a pool, and a library. It has a beautiful dining area. It’s a retirement community, but you don’t see any of the medical staff in nursing homes. You have to have a little bit of financial resource in order to pay, but it’s not really as pricey as all the places are very pricey.

What we saw at Water's Edge was very nice. We did not choose this one because it was multi-level. I thought it would be difficult for my parents to go up and down the elevator and, at the time we went there, they did not have a one-bedroom apartment available. They only had studios available, and that was too small. The dining room was clean and bright. They had a whole lot of things listed including a pool with lots of activities and a library; there were a lot of things. We really did like it, but they didn't have what we needed at that time and, being multi-level, we didn't want the elevator problem. It's a very new facility.