Independent Living Communities in Milwaukie, OR

"Edgewood Downs is a blessing. Clean and nice facilities and rooms, great food (according to my dad- he loves the ever changing menu options!), and inclusive atmosphere. The residents are active and my dad always has multiple fellow residents with whom he shares meals, watches movies, and exercise. Joyce was especially incredible as we navigated the transition to independent living. She made it seamless, keeping up regular communication and through professional, empathetic support for me and my dad."

"I visited King City Senior Village. I like the atmosphere. It was welcoming. The staff was very helpful. The food was very good. The room size is average. The facility was very clean. The dining area was very open and welcoming."

"We chose Parkrose Chateau for my brother. The people there are extremely friendly. It has a very clean atmosphere and is well-kept. All the amenities met his needs and his requirements. They have a one-bedroom that has air conditioning, a living room, a kitchen, and a dining area. It does have quite a bit more closet space than some of the other ones that I've looked at. The only downfall I saw was the sink area, which was very small. The staff is very pleasant and easy to talk to. They got a library and had a pool table upstairs. There are a lot of places for games and watching TV."

"Brookdale Wilsonville was nice. When you walk in, it's very open and friendly. The staff there was really good. I liked the rooms better, just the layout and the design of them. Everyone was super friendly when you first walked in. The people that were living there were very friendly. They had a garden area, which was a little farther away and that's the only thing. For most residents, it's a little jaunt across the parking lot to get to it, but other than that, it was good. They had a nice dining room, a good TV/movie space, a lot of people out doing games and playing cards and stuff in a lot of the areas, so it was nice. They had a nice fireplace, a piano, a library, and a reading room."

"I've known Creekside Village Retirement for a long time. I like the manager and I like the room. There's a garden space, too. I've always liked the community and its location. There are lots of activities. I'm looking forward to the exercise classes. I'm sure there are nicer facilities there, but the others cost a whole lot more money, too, while this one is affordable for us."

"I moved to Solista Gresham by Cogir. What I liked when we first came to see the community was there were smiling faces. Everybody was smiling, happy just to be out and about. We took the tour to see the place, and just about everybody we passed and we talked to had positive feedback. They were just cheerful, happy people. So, I chose right there to move in here. I love the one-bedroom apartment they showed me. It was just what I was looking for. I had dinner that day, but since then the food has been fantastic. The conversations with the other clients are like being a family. There's a lot of teasing and well-wishing as well as. You catch occasional hugs once in a while from people. They explained everything thoroughly to me about activities and the whole thing. It's a family atmosphere. I like that. The staff are all extremely helpful. I had trouble with my mail key, and they were right on it. I had a new key within 15-20 minutes of telling them that I couldn't open the mailbox. I had a box that was too high. My family put it too high for me to unpack. I asked a couple of the staff to help me get it down. They've been very helpful. I love that about the people that work here. They remember your name and call you by name. They're always willing to do what they have to do to make you happy."

"I visited the independent living facility of Truewood by Merrill, Vancouver, and they were good. The facility was very clean, and they had a lot of dining options and activities for the seniors to do. The rooms were pretty and were suitable for the seniors living there. They're not an assisted living place, though. I am not looking for that at the moment, but I also want to look for a place that has step-up care. I met the marketing director, who was very nice and very informative. They gave me a meal voucher and I could come in at any time and have a meal, whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner."

"I went to Springwood Landing. It was very nice. It's a beautiful community. It was gorgeous actually. They had a lot of amenities, and it looked fairly new. Michelle took us around. She was wonderful, and she was very informative. We had lunch there also, which was very good. We had chicken fried steak. There were lots of food. I only got half done and I said, I can't eat anymore, and the little lady at the other table says, 'Oh, you should have ordered only a half,' and I said, 'We didn't know we could have a half.' The dining area was beautiful. It was very open, it had lots of windows, and it was bright. It is like going into a restaurant. We sat down with a menu, and they had several choices, so it was very nice. They had crafts, they had a billiards room, and they had patios and I like that. The utilities were all paid, and that was great. They have a beauty shop on campus there. They have buses to take you to grocery shopping and doctor's appointments. They had a gym, a craft center, a hobby place, a computer center, and all that. They had raised gardens. It's very nice. The people were very friendly. The staff who gave me the tour was very informative and very friendly. She just let us kind of roam around, too, and we could ask people questions ourselves. It's very nice. The only thing I don't like is that I have to pay for three meals a day, and I'd rather do my own breakfast and lunch and just have dinner. I like cooking and stuff, so that was the only drawback for me. It's pricey but it's brand new, too. The chef even came out and talked to us. He asked how we like the food. He didn't know we were visiting, I don't think, so it's very nice."

"Kamlu Vancouver Senior Living is very nice, peaceful, clean, and welcoming. Everybody was friendly, very helpful, and courteous. The apartments are small for me. I would have to get rid of some stuff. It's kind of interesting that they're going to have Christmas in July. They do try to have activities. They have movies. The food was good. It looked great to me, so I had no complaints about the place."

"I'm in Holiday Rock Creek. I'm a blind person and I live on a fixed income. Most of the other places that I went to look at were huge. The hallways were like the size of the length of a football field, if not longer. This place is manageable. It's not quite as big as the other places that I was looking at, and since I live on a fixed income, this was the most reasonable place that I could find. That's why I decided to come here. The staff here is awesome. They've been super kind to me. They provide me with three meals a day, but they will deliver your food to your room for $5. But for the first week that I was here, they were delivering the food to me, but they weren't charging me for it, which I thought was awesome. I've been slowly but surely learning how to get from my room to the elevator, then downstairs to the dining room. The staff has been great about saying, "Just come this way." They've been helpful. The food is great. For example, for lunch or dinner, they have a main entree, but then they typically have one or three other choices that you can choose from. Typically, there's a salad or a sandwich of some sort. For lunch, if I choose the main entree they give me a green salad. I try not to eat desserts, but they come along with it."

"I toured MorningStar of Hillsboro. The facility is way too big. It looks like you're in a hotel, which is nice, and I've toured the apartments. They're nice and bright, and that's what I'm looking for. The staff member who helped with the tour was a sweetie and knowledgeable. They've got everything going on in there. They play card games, go on tours as far as getting out of Morningstar, and go on shopping trips. It's more of a fit for me. The view was beautiful. The facility was clean and solid; however, the apartments are a little small for me."

"My daughter scheduled a tour at Cogir at The Quarry for us several months ago and we recently came back in for another visit and lunch. Everyone stopped to say hi including the wonderful residents. Lunch was great as well! Thank you for the hospitality."

"We toured Van Mall Retirement. It was somewhat modern. It was clean. It seemed very well-organized. The meals, the activities, and the space seemed very spacious for the amount of people that were there. The people that we passed that are living there, seemed very happy. I don't think we passed one person who didn't acknowledge the woman who was giving us our tour. I thought that was special and unique. It was a safe environment. The lighting was good. The one-bedroom apartment we looked at, the floor plan of it was acceptable. It would be a huge adjustment for my parents. It was large enough that it could hold some of their furniture and that it would be fairly easy to make it homey. The kitchen facility was more than adequate. The refrigerator was a decent size. The pantry was more than what they would need. It was just suitable for a couple or, or even for a single person. The grounds were very pretty. There was a beautiful courtyard. There was a place to do gardening, and there was a library. It just seemed very accommodating for my parents and anyone that wanted to be there. We looked at the menu and that particular location is set up like restaurant style so that the people living there can go in and order from an actual menu, which is pretty special, I think."

"I like The Lofts by Cogir. I just wish they had a different restaurants closer to the independent living. It was clean. I like the two-bedroom unit; however, the walls are painted kind of a dark pinkish tan color. A brighter color would help. The staff was very nice."