Independent Living Communities in Clearwater, FL

"I toured Stratford Court of Palm Harbor. It was very nice, the staff was very nice, and friendly. We decided if we were gonna go that route that would be the place we would have chosen. They have a pool, a library, and a common entertainment area."

"Good facility, no bells and whistles, but good services and good food. Highly recommended, especially if your financial resources are pretty limited. "

"Sunstar Village is an awful place. It's small. I think they have like maybe 30 people. They can only handle up to 50, but they are about half full, and I can see why. The place is old and dingy, and they have very limited staff. I found that the security is not very good. They did offer me a private room with a nice bathroom, but everything is older. I met the owner. He was in his office, and he's a young guy. It needs a lot of help. It's pretty run-down. I saw a lot of residents in wheelchairs slumped over. I saw that in every room. I didn't find it to be very inviting or anything like that. The staff was kind of distracted, like she didn't really want to give the tour, even though I scheduled it. She obviously forgot because I showed up and she asked me why I was there. She was nice enough, but not upbeat, just kind of going through the motions. All I saw was the outside place where the smokers go. They have an activity room that doubles as a dining room. They don't have a separate wing for memory care. They mix them all up."

"Lake Seminole Square is a beautiful place. If I had to go to an assisted living home, this would be the one if I can just afford it. The staff was very friendly. I like how the marketing person presented the place, and I could just see by the reaction of the residents that they were completely happy there. The rooms were nice and large. Each room had a beautiful view of the place with a lot of landscaping and grounds. "

"I live at Coral Oaks. I have a slightly larger single bedroom, and so it has a one-and-a-half bath. But in the half bath, you have your own laundry. You don't have to go to some basement laundry area. You just do it yourself whenever you feel like it. They provide a refrigerator and a cooking range. The only thing you had to buy for yourself was a toaster if you wanted, and a countertop microwave. Other than that, everything is provided. You bring your own furniture, of course. I don't have any problems with the staff. They also provide housekeeping services. They come in once a week to polish and vacuum. There's all kinds of things going on. Even twice a week they have Happy Hour where they provide drinks and you have entertainment."

"I took advantage of Freedom Square's mini staycation and found the facility to be extremely clean, well cared for, the staff friendly, happy residents, and the food delicious. Joey, the GM, is very hands on and it is evident how much he (and staff) cares about the community. I didn't think I would like the property as much as I did. So much so, I put a deposit on after just a few days. There is an indoor heated salt-water pool and I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time in that. Many exercise classes, events, and trips. So much more than like communities provide. Major shopping and beaches close by made this an easy decision. So glad to call Freedom Square home!"

"When I visited American House St. Petersburg, I was very pleased with the walk through. The place was very clean. The staff was friendly and even the residents were also friendly. I liked the fact that my father is in a shared room, but even though he's in the shared room, it's almost like private, because he has a separate door and the roommate also has a separate door. They just shared the bathroom, and that was impressive to me. The staff has been very good. They keep me informed and when I come to visit him, they already know who I am. If they have something to tell me about him, they tell me right away, like whether he had a good day or a bad day. They eat in the dining room and they get my father out of the room for all of his meals. I haven't been there to see what type of activity they do, but they have different activities for the residents, because when I first walked in there, I was impressed with what they were doing, a cardio drumming exercise. They have a common area for the exercises. I think they exercise in the same area where they have a common area for eating. They have a television and you can take them outside if someone is with them, because with it being a memory care, the doors have to be locked. The meals looked very appealing. Like I would even want to eat a meal there."

"Brookdale Bayshore was clean. The residents and workers were friendly. The location was very nice. The staff was very knowledgeable about everything that they did. They seem to have everything that they need. They have exercise classes, a salon, a pool, and a lift area for the pool for people that can't get in by themselves. They have pool exercise offered through a person at the YMCA that comes and does it. They have movies, a book club, and a lot of amenities."

"We liked Allegro. My sister liked the apartment. She liked that she had a water view when she looked down. We saw the restaurant. They had a bus. They took them out to places. They took them out to dinner. They had pool, a hot tub, and a workout room. It was very nice. "

"My Mom has been a resident at Tampa Gardens since 2012. Initially she lived in the Assisted Living Area. She is now living in the Memory Care Area . The staff have been great with my Mom. Rosamand gets her to do things that Mom won't to do for me. She also gets Mom to transfer from her chair to her wheelchair. She gets Mom to walk to the bathroom instead if taking the wheelchair. Mom does it happily for her. Rosamand challenges Mom and Mom trusts her. Staff are always willing to support Mom and keep her safe. They manage her medications, provide three meals a day and monitor intake. The staff also complete Moms ADL's and if there are any issues they will let me know and alert the nurse practitioner. I have been very pleased with the care and support Mom gets at Tampa Gardens."

"Amilcat care Home LLC is fantastic the staff very nice. I liked it here very clean mrs. Yvrose she's so helpful I like everything here the food is so good the staff is very "

"It is a very big community. They have several floors. It is the best one I've visited. It's very clean and very well structured. The staff was very nice and seemed to be concerned about our situation. However, in the end, they couldn't help us because of my brother's criminal record in the past. The dining area was set up like a hotel. The private room was nice and roomy, and it had a bathroom. The residents all seemed happy and engaged in whatever activity they were doing."

"I toured The Meridian at Brandon. It was very overwhelming. It's a very large facility and it's incredible. It's beautiful and very well decorated because it's geared more towards people who are non-dementia patients who expect to be able to take care of themselves for the most part. They offer different levels of care, but they also charge for those different levels of care, and that was one thing I did not like. It could get very expensive very quickly. It was very tall and very, very long. They had hundreds of units there, but they had lots and lots of scheduled activities. The scheduled activities were just out of this world. They had chef-prepared meals and stuff like that. The only thing is that, because my mother has COPD and she can't walk very far, that was the downfall of the place. Just to go eat in the dining room, if her room wasn't down the hall from the dining room, she would have to take an elevator and then walk all over the facility, which is ginormous. They had studios, one-bedrooms, and then they had two-bedroom companion suites, so they had a lot of floor plans to choose from. The staff who toured us was very professional. Everyone that I encountered was very professional. It's not as friendly or family-oriented as with the other place because they were a very large community. The price was out of my mother's range. They catered more to affluent individuals and couples. "

"My husband and I liked the Osprey Heights Gracious Retirement Living. We had lunch there and met some people living there who were very friendly. I wasn't really comfortable with the girl who took us around so that's why I wanted to go back and see the person who we had talked to one other time when we just drove by there. I felt like he might give us a little bit more information. I think she said she was afraid to overload us with a lot of information. Another problem is that they also didn't have assisted living. Independent living is the only thing they have. We did feel comfortable there, though, and I could have easily moved there, as long as it was something that wasn't expensive and we could afford it. The place was nice and clean, the food was good, and everybody that we talked to was very nice. What they offered, I thought, was very nice, too. They even had a kitchen there if you wanted to go and make something special. I also felt comfortable there. We had lunch and I thought the food was very good. They served us well."