Independent Living Communities in Peoria, AZ

"We toured Adobe Country Gables. It's a beautiful, massive house. It's a regular home, but it's big. It's a mansion. It's like eight bedrooms. It's very well put together. That wasn't the selling point. The selling point was the owner. The guy that owns the place, was so good with the people that live there. He has a great setup. He's been doing this since he was a kid. He's very good. He knows exactly what he's doing. He has no qualms about any of the jobs that need to be done. He has little routines that they do. He'll take certain ones out to do certain things and the other ones to do other things. He's very structured that way and they like him very much. There is like one little tiny closet in a room that would be perfect for somebody who was getting arrested or something, but the rest of the rooms were beautiful, they were big, they had big windows and interiors, bright colored ceilings, and it was fabulous. I loved the place."

"Location is one of the main reasons why we liked Vista del Rio and the other is it seems like a very nice facility. Everybody seemed so friendly and helpful. It was spotless. We had one meal there. It was not spectacular, but it was good. They have a library and a pool, and then they talked about how they have different programs and entertainment from time to time. It seemed like a very congenial place."

"I toured Thunderbird Senior Living. I did see their menu and everything seemed good. It's like an all-day kind of thing. It's open all day. The facility was clean and nice. I was impressed. It was very well-maintained. The rooms were nice. I'm interested in the studio, large, it was a pretty good size, and it'll work for me. The staff was very friendly and informative."

"My mother is in LifeStream at Glendale. I moved her into a two-bedroom and got her a 24-hour caregiver. Physically, she's pretty good, and sometimes she's lucid, but for the most part, her mind is gone. They do not offer dinner. They offer a continental breakfast, and then her main meal is lunch. She's very happy where she is now. She's on the second floor and has a balcony. Their cleaning service leaves something to be desired. They won't clean any flat surfaces unless everything is taken off, including pictures and coasters, and everything. You need to pretty much clean before they come. They have a free laundry, but it's my understanding that there's no hot water for the laundry. We live in Glendale, and the water never gets cold, cold. She plays bingo, and they have Bunco. Somebody came in and played the piano and sang. They go to the grocery or Walmart once a week, but they go at like 9:00 in the morning, and that's too early for her, so she doesn't partake in that. Pretty much, she waits for me to come and get her and take her places. They have a hairdresser that she goes to and gets her hair cut. There are some wonderful staff members, and there are some mediocre ones. I've not run into any bad staff. They have a very consistent turnover, especially in their restaurant people. Their housekeeper is never the same person all the time. Their maintenance people are wonderful. When you call and say there's an issue where she can't work the TV, they come right over and fix it. It's not a holding tank for dead people. You don't have parades of wheelchairs and scooters lined up. People are doing things. They have groups that do gem art. They play cards, they have a Pinnacle group, and they also have cornhole, where they throw beanbags or something. She seems very pleased with the food. I wish they offered a dinner, even if it was an additional cost, because a lot of times she'll take part of her lunch home and eat that for dinner, but now her caregiver is actually cooking some meals. There's a lot of fast food in the area that they could Uber something in or DoorDash or whatever. She's paying less than $2,500 for a two-bedroom."

"This is exactly the place we have been looking for! My Nan seems to be very happy with the services and the staff. Food is delicious (sometimes we have it instead of wasting it in case Nan wants a change from their food). The staff are friendly and professional and just what you would expect from a place like this!"

"LifeStream at Youngtown has a lot of facilities and is more open. The other place is a four-story building, so it is all very confined. LifeStream at Youngtown is spread out, and I kind of like that a little better. The only person I saw was extremely nice and helpful."

"My mom is a resident of Solstice Senior Living at Sun City West. She likes it down there. When you walk into the door, the greeters are nice. The front desk and the kitchen people go around and greet all the residents, and that's good, too. They've got lots of activities that she enjoys. She likes the food. The nice thing about it is if you don't like what their main thing is, they give you options. They care about their residents, and they're always checking in to make sure mom's okay. The facility is very nice, big, and airy. She likes to play cards, bridge, and bingo, and enjoys using the bus to go out."

"My mom is a resident of MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge. The staff is very considerate and very helpful in everything. They give you a variety of food, but it doesn't taste like anything. It's bland. It's a good atmosphere, very nice, and kept clean. They had a lot of stuff. They do help her out on certain things. She did have a pendant that she pressed, and then somebody would come. The money was decent, and then they raised their rent for the first year, so that's why my mom had to go where she had to go."

"I moved to Glencroft Center for Modern Aging. The people are so patient and understanding. They were so patient with me and helped me out and explained everything. So it was a very good experience. I've just been in my room. I'm still putting things away and getting set up, but I haven't gone out and used any of the other facilities yet. I've seen all of them. They look excellent. They were holding on the day I moved in, a Cowboy barbecue event. Things are going on all the time."

"I thought Holiday Vista de la Montana was lovely. I wanted to go there. It was just so warm and inviting. The staff and all the people who live there were all excited. I thought they had a lot of great amenities and a lot of interactions. Just the way they greeted me and everything, they seemed to be a five. I liked the staff. We checked the rooms, and I thought they were a decent size, and I thought the ability to move around with a wheelchair was very nice, too."

"The Park at Surprise was beautiful. It looked expensive. It looked like a very high-quality place. The lady staff member was very nice and very personable. Her name was Shannon. She was awesome. I got to have lunch there that they prepared for me, and it was free. They have a very nice restaurant and a shop. They have a little bar there, and I got to eat in that area. There were other people that lived there that I could see, like the age group of people that would be my peers. I only had contact with two of the workers. One was a lady who gave me the tour, and the other one was the manager. He was coming in when I was coming, and I asked him for a walker, because I hadn't brought my walker, and so he went and got me one. He was very nice also. There were two people having lunch, and there were a couple of people in the pool area, so I didn't really see a lot of the activities. Nevertheless, I was quite impressed with the place. I felt very comfortable there, and if I could afford it, I was like, "Wow! This would really work for me.""

"We toured Westgate Village, and it's beautiful, too, but it's different. It is more of a larger community. The one at the other facility was very homey and small, but the one in Westgate Village is very large, and their apartments are all out of this world. They are beautiful. They've got washers and dryers in them. They're nice, big apartments with full kitchens, too. Their amenities weren't nearly as nice as the other facility. They did have a movie theater area, but it had regular chairs, and the other facility had an actual movie theater. The amenities were very simple. It was nice, unlike other places, but the apartments in Westgate Village blew the other facility, like blowing it out of the water. They didn't even compare. So, as far as the apartment goes, it's way bigger and way nicer. Tracy did a great job. She's nice and very informative."

"My mother has been in Park Terrace at Greenway for two years now. She enjoys living there. She likes the people who work there. She likes the residents. She likes the apartment that she has and the activities that they have going on. It's just overall a nice place for her to live. She has a one-bedroom apartment. They have movie nights, and they have a little vendor thing that they do once a month where people can come in and sell their knick-knacks and stuff. They always have a lot going on for the residents. The staff is friendly and very helpful. I've never heard her complain about the meals."

"They were very pleasant and very helpful at Fellowship Square Phoenix. They answered questions. The rooms were adequate. They were nice. They had kitchenettes, and that was good to see. The kitchenettes were nice, too. There was a room that had books and stuff in it, and they had an activities room. Some activities would be held in the dining room if they were larger activities. The courtyard was smaller, but it was nice. It's a larger community, and there is a lot of independent living housing there. They also have a memory care unit. The inside was very nice, and we liked the fact that it was a guarded community. They have a gate with a security guard."