Independent Living Communities in Pittsford, NY

"Highlands at Pittsford is a lovely place. My parents are already on their waiting list. I thought it was very clean and very organized. The staff was very warm and friendly. My parents are looking at one of the stand alone cottages, and it is quite lovely and spacious. It is just a very nice place. Their dining room was lovely. They have every sort of activity. They have walking trails and a garden patch. The cottages are just lovely. "

"My dad and his wife lived in Cloverwood Senior Living. It was really nice. It had two or three different levels of care, and it had a separate building for people that needed following around, so they didn't walk out the doors. It had a dining facility, you could eat in or you could take your meals to your room, and you order them by the meal. It was a typical senior living facility, but it was kind of upscale. They had independent living facilities. They had their own room, and they could go down for meals. They took them shopping. It was full service. They were wonderful, clean, beautiful, well attended, and well staffed. It was a topnotch facility, and it wasn't cheap. The facility was well appointed, the food was excellent, and the staff was excellent. There wasn't anything that I would fault them for. It was well landscaped, the grass was always cut, the driveway was always shoveled, and the walks were shoveled. It was impeccable. If you are looking for something, this would be the top place you could be looking for."

"We visited Legacy at Village Wood. It was very welcoming. The person that we met was really nice and tried very hard to answer our questions and accommodate my sister. They were working to make it up-to-date. The rooms were very nice and had been updated. They were nicely painted and had new carpeting. I looked at the dining area. They kept their residents active, too. "

"We toured Linden Knoll. The staff was very nice, and the facility was very clean and smelled clean. It was a very nice and pleasant place. Our daughter went, and she was able to see the room, but we were not when we made our visit. The only thing that we didn't like about it was that we didn't get to actually see a room, and we've heard they're very small."

"My mother is currently at the Legacy at Willow Pond. It's OK; it's a good facility. They offer a lot of options for the people living there. They do not offer an assisted program where they have 24/7 care, and they don't have a nursing staff there, but they have a lot of other amenities. They move forward quite well with offering what a senior who was looking for independent living would want, and the price is right. (Actually, it's very reasonable.) The location is good, the environment is clean, and I've never met anybody who was a problem as far as staff is concerned; they're all very friendly, efficient, and caring. I would recommend the place to any person who's looking for that kind of facility. They provide all the elements that a person in independent living would want. There's a chapel, they have a hairdresser, they accommodate residents by getting transportation to and from shopping places, and they have a lot of meeting areas, a library, a lounge, and a full dining room. They do a good job."

"Legacy At Clover Blossom was an excellent place. It was beautiful, airy, and bright. I saw the 1-bedroom, and it was very expensive. It was a lovely place. The staff gave us a lovely tour and explained everything, and then we had lunch. "

"I moved into Legacy at the Fairways. It's a very good location right next to a golf course, and they keep the grounds in very good shape. We have quite a few different activities like card games, bingo games, word games, dice games, and exercise programs. We also have Watermark University where they encourage you to attend classes. There are chapel services for Catholic people and church services for Protestant people. The apartments are very nice and roomy. The staff here is very helpful. The food is very good. They have a restaurant-style dining room where you order from a menu."

"Valley Manor is excellent. Our friends live there, and they're very happy, and that's why we looked there. It has different sizes of apartments that one can go into and that was a good thing for us because we'd like something a little larger when we're ready. We particularly liked the three-bedroom ones, and we liked that it's still within the community we have lived in for 40 years. We like that it's accessible to lots of cultural things and it's very walkable. It's an older facility, and yet they've done a nice job of keeping things in good repair and doing upgrades on balconies and such things. I liked that it has balconies that you can open up to the outside. You can be outside without leaving your private space. The staff was incredible. They were so good at remembering names and at highlighting the residents' accomplishments. One of the people I know from my church lives there. He just turned 90 and they did a big acknowledgment of him at the Eastman Theater and lots of the residents came to acknowledge him as well. I'm sure there were a lot of people who work there that were there, but one of them who was involved in admissions recognized me, knew my name, and I didn't even remember her name. I remembered her, but not her name. They are extremely good at meeting the needs of the residents and seeing the residents as complete people, including their past and their past accomplishments in their life, which I think is valuable when one is older and maybe not as capable. We have eaten there a couple of times and it's just fine. It's not outstanding, but it's been the pandemic, so it's been very hard to hire people. It has very thick concrete walls, so it's very quiet and it's easy to regulate the temperature in one's apartment. All the rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows or sliding doors out to balconies, so they're light and airy and pleasant to be in the apartments. The general area is very nice, too. The people there seemed very happy."

"My experiences visiting my grandfather at St. John's Meadows were quite positive. The facility is highly-equipped to assist seniors of all abilities accomplish many goals. Whether the residents wish to quietly rent a small home along the perimeter of the property, or live within the main buildings in the center of the campus, there was something for everyone. Being more active and able than some other residents, my grandfather was able to rent a small two bedroom home in the community.Exploring St. John's Meadows was an interesting adventure, as there were so many different aspects to it that made it wonderful for seniors and their visitors. The staff in the main office was incredibly helpful and welcoming, always willing to tell us where to go for certain activities and events. There was a heated indoor pool in the facility that my grandpa could make sure was open simply by flipping onto an in-house TV channel, which revealed a video feed for the pool house.The only negative issue with the community at St. John's Meadows was the access to the main entrance. It is located on a very busy road in Rochester, and has no traffic light at the entrance's intersection with the road. Turning left out of the community onto this road was nearly impossible, and quite dangerous for even a young and alert adult like myself. I always worried that my grandpa was going to attempt a difficult left turn exiting his community and get into a car accident. "

"Brickstone at St Johns is very nice. It's a smaller community. They're more intimate. They're more of a family-oriented community as opposed to a facility that is high rise and has 100 or more persons living in their apartments. Each apartment is differently designed. Some of them are two bedrooms, and some of them are three-bedroom-two baths. They also have single-family villas with fireplaces and things like that. It's a completely different environment. They have more of the apartment living concept and they also have a single villa, which is first-floor single ranch-style living. The staff is very nice. They're very professional and very attentive. It's more on a very close-knit family orientation between the residents and the staff."

"I recently moved here and am so glad I did! The parties are fun and the people here are so nice. "

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"We toured Parkwood Heights. We toured two separate independent living situations. They were like townhouses, but they were smaller. There was only a one-car garage in the one we saw. It's independent living, and they had enriched living, too. Lisa is the name of the girl who showed it to us. She showed us two independent living situations. The only thing is they had a one-car garage, they had no basement, and they were much smaller areas than at the other place. There was one unit that could be appealing. It's just that we live in a very large ranch right now, and to me, the space was kind of confining. The staff told us about different activities. She showed us the dining room and the main building. It seemed not as open, and it seemed like there were fewer activities at that particular place. But they have transportation, meals, housekeeping, laundry services, gourmet catering, and room service. There are all sorts of things that you can add on. Other facilities are rental, but they have patio homes, too. If you took advantage of that and bought a patio home through a realtor, you could take advantage of the services that they provide for their seniors. You could also add on those services and pay for those privately. The staff who toured us was new there, so she wasn't familiar with some of the different things there, but she was very nice. "

"I first visited St. Ann's Community at Chapel Oaks with a friend of mine who was also looking to move in there. I liked it a lot. What I really liked was the choice of floor plans for the apartments. I saw the whole facility. One thing that they had that the other community did not have was an indoor pool. I do water aerobics, so that was a factor for me. The woman who showed me around was very informative. She answered all my questions. She showed me all the amenities and a couple of apartments with different floor plans. The place was very clean and very inviting. I also liked their kitchens more. They were all stainless and much nicer."