Independent Living Communities in Elkhorn, NE

"The apartments are varied in design. Lots of different floor plans. The food is excellent. We have a dedicated chef who goes out of her way to make excellent menu items and goes out of her way to accommodate the residents. The staff is visible and very approachable. All in all is a great place to live. I wish I’d have moved here sooner."

"Crown Pointe is five all the way. It's just a little more expensive than the other place, and there didn't seem to be any real difference in care. The rooms were a little bit bigger, but we didn't need bigger. We saw a one-bedroom. We saw the atrium, which is beautiful. We also saw the residents in the common areas and the schedule for the day."

"Connect55+ Omaha is an adult retirement apartment complex. They were very nice. We went and met a super nice lady there. She walked us around the community and showed us a nice apartment. It just didn't have quite as many amenities as the other place did. It was also a little bit more expensive, although it was closer to where we live and it's right across the street from a hospital, so that is a benefit to it. My father liked it because everything about it was nice. It was a nice community. He said he could live there. There were individual apartments like a senior living dorm. They all had their doors decorated. There were communal areas on each floor and a dining room where they do coffee in the mornings. They don't offer food there, but they do get-togethers like potlucks and then sometimes they all take a bus to Red Lobster or wherever. They have one- and two-bedroom apartments. My father looked at a one-bedroom. The only thing was they didn't come with a microwave or a washer and dryer. It didn't come with utilities other than cable and internet. It did have balconies. They did not have a pool. They had an exercise room and a library downstairs in the main communal area. They had a handful of books on each floor in the communal area there, which had tables and sofas, puzzles, and games. It was a little bit older though and the apartment didn't have the same amenities as the other place, but it was nice, and the residents we saw there and chatted with, were really happy."

"We toured Connect55+ La Vista. It was a beautiful complex. However, the one-bedrooms were only 700 square feet, and the two-bedrooms were only 800 square feet. The kitchens were like a kitchenette, but everything was clean and inviting. They had a great little deck off the living room. They had a washer and dryer in the apartment. The gal who showed us around and helped us tour, who is the manager of the building, was wonderful. There was a little area where they were sitting and doing diamond art. They looked happy. Several women were there, but it seemed to us that it was a bit older than we wanted. We're more independent, but the manager made comments about how some people were independent and had garages. They had an electric garage. I mean, garages that had electricity in them and some that didn't, but the ones with electricity, there was a carpenter who was doing carpenter work out of his garage. Everything looked nice. I thought that it was a beautiful place. It was too small, and I felt we were younger than the general population."

"I visited Risen Son Christian Village. I went and talked to the guy and looked at the apartment for my sister. You walked down the hall and the staff was just very nice and acknowledging. The rooms were small, and that's one of the reasons why she didn't pick it. Everything looked nice. It was clean. The dining area was nice and clean."

"My husband and I moved into Elk Ridge Village Retirement Community in March. The minute we moved in, the residents and the staff have been exceptionally helpful. Various residents are extremely friendly. We liked it because of the size of the apartment. It's nice and comfortable and fits what we need. We have our lunch here in the afternoons, and usually enough to bring down what we have as snacks for supper. They were able to get us on the first floor, where we had a beautiful view of the lake. And we have a dog, so it's so handy to let her out the back. We're enjoying it. We've made a lot of friends here, and that's always important, to have friends and our families close by to this. So, it's just a perfect fit for us. They have exercise classes and they have games. In the mornings, there are some things you can do, exercise and such. But in the afternoon you don't have to be in your apartment very much if you don't want to. There's a lot of games always going on. They have a happy hour on Thursdays, and the first of the month is a cake for the month, whatever month it is, that's a cake for the birthdays. Then we have an ice cream social once a month. And so it's just a lot of things going on. We've not done a lot because we are just getting moved in and settled and we have had some sicknesses come up and kind of slow us down. But we're looking forward to being able to get out and join the games and things."

"We have been living in Esprit Whispering Ridge. It's a wonderful place. The staff is so caring. It's just amazing, it's just clean, and well taken care of, and everyone is just friendly. It's like being in a home. The staff members are just outstanding. I don't know how they find such great people. The facility is beautiful, the apartments are large, and it's just a very nice, well-kept facility. They have the standard services, transportation, meals, housekeeping services, laundry if you need it. They will deliver meals to your room if you want. On the whole, the food is very good. You have two main choices at lunch and then they have soups and salads and things that you can get if you don't want that, and then one choice, dinner and breakfast, anything that you want. They have exercises, they have Wii bowling. They have bridge, card games, movies, trips to museums and places, or restaurants. They have a pretty full schedule of activities. It's a little expensive, but it's well worth it."

"Pacific Springs Village is beautiful. It's a very high-end country club type of facility, which is not what we are looking for. The tour guide was just wonderful in explaining that Immanuel also offers two other tiers of service, and one would be like a middle price value, and then the third one is an even lower price value, and it also offered assisted living. I said to her it would be so helpful if the website indicated these various levels of care. They have independent living and assisted living in two separate buildings. However, these two formerly separate buildings are now connected with what they call a hub, so it's more a U-shape, and the common areas for both facilities are in that center section. The apartments were high end, had a good layout, and were first class. The staff was very personable, very informative, friendly, gracious, answered all my questions, and also offered other information about another tier of service that Immanuel provides. She was very helpful. The restaurants were lovely. They had three different restaurants that offer a variety of food."

"Lakeside was my second choice because of its location. It's newer, nicer, and fancier than the other place, and they're updating in the future, they said. It's a beautiful facility. The memory care is in a different wing. I saw a studio. They had quite a few activities, but I didn't see anything personally."

"I toured Lakeside Lofts which was located by the lakeside area and had all the health care around it. They had a buy-in so you had to have a large sum of money, it was like $289,000. The people were nice, but you had to go to a different building to do activities. And they didn't have a community area like the one where I'm at, as far as just visiting and sitting down with people. You had to go to the other building to be able to do anything with the community. The facility was beautiful and nice but not what I was looking for. The staff that I talked to was very nice, and she told me about another place that was more like what I was looking for. She was a marketing staff and was very understanding. She called me back a week later to see if I had any other questions. They had a gym, a salon, they had different eating places that they call restaurants in different buildings. They also had a pool and all the stuff that I wanted, I just had to go to a different building to do it."

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"I like Sunridge Village. However, it is independent living and my husband feels that we should be looking at assisted living places. Nevertheless, I like it. I like the atmosphere. I like the fact that it was independent living but that they also provide activities and transportation. They also have their own med alert system. There are a lot of things that are good about it. They have kitchen in each apartment, so if you don't like the food you can cook your own meals. I like the woman who took me around. She was very open to questions. She spent as much time with me as I wanted, and she tried to give me a comprehensive view of what was going on. She was fine. I would move into Sunridge Village myself."

"I chose Avidor Omaha for myself because it's an active community. My apartment is wonderful and we have everything here that you could think of. We have a theater room, exercise room, and common areas. Something is going on all the time. We are provided with breakfast every morning and the food is good. The staff is also wonderful and we have cleaning people that come in once every other week."

"I visited Remington Heights while looking for an assisted living facility for my father-in-law. Hannah was awesome to work with. She provided a lot of information during the tour. The room sizes were nice and I felt the services were affordable. She explained the different levels of care well so I could estimate costs. The facility itself was spacious and clean. There were lots of thoughtful touches in the rooms, such as LOTS of grab bars in the bathrooms, and automatic lights that turned on in the closets when the closet door was opened, and hooks on the back of the bathroom doors. There were also lots of places to sit all around the facility, including a bench in the elevator (great idea). I liked how visitors were required to sign in and checked for COVID symptoms before entering. The residents I interacted with seemed happy to be there. One thing that set Remington Heights apart after the tour was Hannah's level of follow-up. She checked in with me to see how my search was progressing. Unfortunately, we discovered shortly after the tour that my father-in-law's cancer had come back, and he is going to need some intensive treatment in the short-term. While Remington Heights provides free transportation to medical appointments, I decided I needed to choose a facility for him that would be closer to where I live. But if that hadn't been the case, they would have definitely been a top choice. The level of activities offered, the services provided, and the cost (especially the lower community fee compared to other facilities) made this a serious contender. "