Independent Living Communities in Kirkland, WA

"Staff are wonderful and make you feel at home and cared for. There are always activities planned and have a large turn out of residents at each activity. Food is good and the place is odor free and clean. It would be nice if they would redecorate the interior, as it does not do Riverside East justice. It's a little out dated and as I look back, was almost why we didnt choose to move here, but happy we did!"

"The Creekside was great. We toured their independent living and the facility is very clean, which we were very impressed with. It's also easily maneuverable, and the doors were wide enough for a wheelchair. The rooms are laid out pretty well. The only thing I wondered is that if you have a 1-bedroom, you have to go around a wall to get to a bathroom straight through. That's just me, though. I'm just extremely picky. The dining room was extremely clean and I was very impressed with that. The place was very clean and smelled clean. I'm very picky and I smell things and this place smelled good. I was very impressed with how clean it was. The staff was very patient with my dad and answered every silly question there was about the windows and non-slip things. They're very good and my dad was very comfortable there."

"Mom just moved to Empress Senior Living at Laurelhurst Assisted Living and Memory Care. It's a facility that was just built a few years ago, and their staff is wonderful. I spent many, many days there with my mom. They are very professional and good. The food was very good, too. In memory care, there are a lot of people who are not very high-functioning, so they don't do a whole lot of activities, but the value for the money is pretty good. It costs $6,600 a month to be in that facility, and then there are additional costs on top of that, but I think for what I looked at all over, their cost was about the same as others. I was so lucky to find that place. They had space available, and they were able to get me in. It wasn't out of reach cost for me."

"I toured Overlake Terrace. They offer quite a bit of other activities besides just a room and a place to eat. They provided the care that we are anticipating. They have a recreation room. When we were there, they had someone who came in and played some music for the folks. They have a little coffee shop bar, a theater room for movies, a pool table, and a library. It was very clean-looking. It looked like it had been renovated over the last four or five years, or maybe six years somewhere in there, so it was a little bit modernized. They took a bunch of assisted people there and brought them to Seattle to look at the Museum of Flight. They do outside activities, and they'll take them to the mall or shopping. I was surprised at how many people worked there. There must have been at least 30 or more people that went into the cafeteria for a staff meeting. As we were leaving, more people were arriving for work, which I assume was their shift. So, people come and go. I met with the director of the place, a nice gentleman. It's not a huge company, but it's a sizable group of people that work there. They served us lunch while we were there, and the food tasted good."

"I'm moving into the Bellettini. It was in the right location, in a city. I needed an urban setting. It seemed far above the others, although it was a lot more expensive. At the time that I signed up for it, the meal plan was better, but they've consequently changed their meal plan. It had air conditioning and it had a gas fireplace. The gas fireplace is what attracted me to it. Very efficient, very friendly staff, and they kept in contact with me at all times. I loved the food. They had a range of activities, which appealed to me. They have a gym, hair salon, and two different restaurants."

"I visited The Gardens at Town Square's assisted living, but my dad needs more assistance than what they can provide. The man who helped me there gave some good local references that I'm going to check out. The place was beautiful, clean, and the staff was extremely helpful and friendly. They offered me coffee and pastries."

"My wife moved into Pacific Regent Bellevue. They did fine. It was a very nice place, not cheap, but nice. The staff was great."

"Large windows, balconies, lots of enriching activities on and off site via the facility bus, friendly staff, and outstanding food."

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"I visited the assisted living facility of North Creek by Bonaventure. What I really liked about it was that the residents could start as independent living, and as they age and require more and more care, they can move them within the same facility to areas that provide more care and are, for their safety, more restrictive. When they have community events within the facility, though, they could bring those people back out, and they can interact with the people that they've gotten to know over the years that they've spent there. The staff there seems to really enjoy their work and care for the people who live there. They also allow people the freedom that they can handle within their faculties. As the people age, they work with the families and move them into other areas of the facility that are more appropriate to them. The director I met spends a lot of time there, off the clock, helping with gardening and other things, which says a lot. She's not there to just punch clocks. She's actually there because she cares about people. Some of the people there become friends, and it makes it much more of a community rather than just some place to go stick your elderly parents in and have somebody else take care of them. I didn't see any issues that would lead me to believe that they weren't taking care of the facility or keeping up on maintenance."

"I wanted to get a sense of the feeling of living in University House. My tour with Mike was very friendly and complete. It covered various choices of living quarters, dining plans, optional elective activities, health support, the building and grounds. I even met some of the residents. Needless to say, I was most impressed."

"Our apartment is spacious and well laid out. The food and other services are superb, and the staff seems to please. Many interesting residents. Moving into Ida Culver House Broadview was a good decision."

"I visited Solista Bellevue by Cogir. They have a library and a weight room. The person giving the tour was nice and friendly. The facility was nice. I liked the units. I want to move there. They provide three meals a day."

"Aljoya is a lovely community with many varied activities for residents, such as exercise classes, Current Event presentations, concerts, art classes, and more. It is within walking distance to Luther Burbank Park, as well as grocery stores, Starbucks and many restaurants. Our apartment is bright, the rooms are spacious, and the staff is very responsive and knowledgeable. We love not having to cook if we don't feel like it, and the food is good!"