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Wanda
5
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June 12, 2025
Bickford of Cedar Falls is a beautiful place, and everybody is wonderful over there, but it is apartment-type living, and my husband would be in there by himself with somebody just coming in to check on him, and that type of thing. However, he is diabetic, he is a double amputee, and he has neuropathy in his hands, so it is hard for him to pick up anything or do something for himself. He has so many different things that he need helps with, that assisted living is not enough for him. For people who need assisted living and qualify for assisted living, I think it's a beautiful place. Everybody is friendly. They want to help, and they took me on a beautiful tour. It just didn't fit my husband's needs. He needs more than assisted living. The people who assisted me during the tour were wonderful. They answered all my questions. They showed me everything that they do there, their activities, their apartments, and their dining room. If my husband were to qualify for assisted living, that would be a place that I would think about putting him.
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If you think there's not much going on in a senior living community, you've never been to Bickford. Imagine your loved one enjoying delicious, scratch-made meals, having a friendly caregiver always nearby, and a calendar chock-full of social activities. Our family of caregivers will do whatever it takes to make sure your loved one is living their best life possible. That includes our nationally recognized HigherPath senior health model. Think of it as your loved one's safety net -- a proactive care team that's all about helping them live happier, healthier -- longer. Oh and did we mention our resident happiness ratings are double the industry average? Get your loved one on the HigherPath Many assisted living facilities seem similar. But Bickford's nationally recognized senior health model is taking the road less traveled and championing a higher standard of senior care. An interdisciplinary care team will ensure your loved one is getting whatever proactive interventions they need to stay on a higher path. On-site primary care High-performing care network Interdisciplinary care meetings Integrated health records Outcome-focused technology Created to care for our family. Devoted to serving yours. Bickford was founded in 1991 to care for our own mother. What started out as a family need has blossomed into our life's work. We're still family-owned and operated today. Support in a home-like environment Your loved one deserves to focus on what matters most -- living the best life possible. Whatever care needs they have, we're here to help. Bread Basket Scratch Kitchen - This isn't institutional food. They'll get three meals a day from our scratch kitchen -- good as home can be. Daily Activities - Choose your fun every day, with options like exercise, guitar sessions, happy hour, and much, much more. Pet Friendly - Know your loved one and their pet are thriving together. We provide assistance with all pet care needs, including feeding, litter box, and outdoor time. Resident Monitoring System - Never worry that mom could end up somewhere unsafe. Transportation Services - Rest easy knowing your loved one can get anywhere they need to go, safely and hassle-free. Medication Management - Twenty different pills per day? No problem. Assistance with Activities of Daily Living - Whatever it takes to give your loved one their dignity, choice, and independence. Maintenance-Free Living - Housekeeping, laundry, home maintenance -- no more! (And yes, we'll even help with the TV remote.) Dementia Programming - All Bickford caregivers consistently receive advanced training in dementia care. Spiritual Care - Most senior living communities rely on volunteers for spiritual care. Not us. We partner with MarketPlace Chaplains to provide reliable, consistent, professional support. Help your loved one age gracefully in 3 easy steps Visit us. Come in for a tour with one of our Family Advocates. We'll start by listening so we can understand your loved one's unique situation. We know what's at stake and we're ready to do whatever it takes. Choose a HigherPath. The status quo isn't good enough. Your loved one deserves better. With our proprietary HigherPath senior health model, we can help your loved one live happier, healthier -- longer. Cherish your time together. These years are meant to be golden. With your loved one living their best life possible, you can savor every moment. Meals, milestones, memories -- enjoy them all. To learn more about this providers license and review other available state reports, please visit: Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals Health Facility Database
Reviews of Bickford of Cedar Falls in Cedar Falls, Iowa
4.5
(19 reviews)
Facility
4.5
Staff
4.8
Food
4.0
Activities
4.0
Value
4.0
Wanda
5
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June 12, 2025
Bickford of Cedar Falls is a beautiful place, and everybody is wonderful over there, but it is apartment-type living, and my husband would be in there by himself with somebody just coming in to check on him, and that type of thing. However, he is diabetic, he is a double amputee, and he has neuropathy in his hands, so it is hard for him to pick up anything or do something for himself. He has so many different things that he need helps with, that assisted living is not enough for him. For people who need assisted living and qualify for assisted living, I think it's a beautiful place. Everybody is friendly. They want to help, and they took me on a beautiful tour. It just didn't fit my husband's needs. He needs more than assisted living. The people who assisted me during the tour were wonderful. They answered all my questions. They showed me everything that they do there, their activities, their apartments, and their dining room. If my husband were to qualify for assisted living, that would be a place that I would think about putting him.
Reviewer#RD0423o
5
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April 24, 2025
I like Bickford of Cedar Falls very much. Some of the other ones were just living sites, and I don't need a living site because I already have one. The people working there were very friendly and helpful. They answered questions and talked about possible arrangements. They were very good. The facilities seemed to be very fine. There is a difference in the size of the rooms. Some of them are quite large, and the other ones are very small, so there's a wide variation.
Sandra
4
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March 11, 2025
I toured Bickford of Cedar Falls, and it was very nice. However, you had to furnish your own furniture in the room. The staff was very helpful. We toured the building, saw the rooms, and had lunch. I had fish, a macaroni salad, a cookie for dessert, and coffee, and it was very good.
Andrew
5
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February 21, 2025
The response times of Bickford of Cedar Falls were impressive. They were very responsive to the people and the calls, and the equipment we saw looked to be high quality. The staff were readily able to answer our questions, even some oddball ones. Phil was phenomenal. The dining area was clean and well-organized. If we can get my aunt healthy enough to be able to be in an assisted living, she'd like it there.
Dawn8
3
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October 31, 2024
I toured Bickford of Cedar Falls. The facility was somewhat dated. The person that gave us the tour actually was the director. When we came across other residents there he didn't address them by name. He helped a senior when we walked through the door who was a bit lost. He did help her and got another nurse over to help her. The dining area was smaller, but this was a much smaller facility than the one before. They do have a small craft room where they did some activities there. They had a really nice courtyard where they could go outside that was circular. So they can't get out. They can go outside, but they can't leave the facility without going through the locked door. I liked that the best. The rooms were all in a circle, so you went down one hallway. You come around and you come right back to the front. I came at a bad time because we had had a lot of rain, and there actually was a puddle of water behind the room I toured, and behind the room in the yard. I hit it at a time where there had been a bad storm, so there was standing water back there.
Reviewer#RD0723w
5
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August 13, 2024
We picked Bickford of Cedar Falls and my brother moved in. He is liking it very well. At this point, I'm very happy with it. I like it. It's a nice, small community. It's not an overwhelming big campus, which makes it feel more comfortable, like home. They serve breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. I had lunch with my brother one day, and we had dinner after the move in, and both meals were very good. They have choices available. One time my brother had a very nice parmesan crusted fish with potatoes and steamed veggies. We had a turkey reuben sandwich with a side of fruits. We could have any beverage we wanted. The hallways are nice and not so long. The rooms are just enough size for someone who is downsizing from their home, and there are smaller rooms available, but it has enough room for the queen bed and the essentials like a sofa, chair, and TV. They mounted the TV on the wall, so that was very nice, too. It was clean and well laid out. It had enough space. The staff is awesome. They're totally amazing. For activities they have PT and casual senior exercises in comfortable settings. It's not over the top, but it's appropriate for the residents. I would highly recommend it. If you're comfortable with small groups of people, it's very easy to have a social life there.
Lisa14
4
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April 30, 2024
Mom was at Bickford of Cedar Falls for a while. She had excellent care there. They paid a lot of attention to her needs, they made her feel significant, and they really helped her. She excelled so well that she was able to go home. The facility felt very inviting. It's very nice. It seems like it's a little old and I think there's some things in the rooms that needed to be repaired, but they were working on them. Otherwise, it was good. They lost their cook. She retired, and during that period where they were trying to replace her, there were times where they were eating on paper plates, and they had to order pizza, and they hired a cook that didn't know how to cook. So for the most part, except for that period of time, they had excellent meals. They had tons of activities. Mom didn't participate in all of them, but they had a great variety, from manicure day to physical activity to movies. It was great.
Provider Response
Lorena
5
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April 9, 2024
I toured Bickford of Cedar Falls. I like it because you have to have a fob to get in and out of the door. So, my father has dementia, so he would not be able to leave the premises. It was small, so there were fewer patients. They have a doctor on hand, and they even have doctors that come in, like the day we were there they had a podiatrist to help any senior that needed their feet checked or their toenails clipped. So, they have someone come in and help with the overall care of the patient. The dining room was tiny though, but they only have a limited number of people that can stay there because they only have so many rooms. The staff was very nice. They all said hello and the girl that showed us around introduced us to everybody. Everything looked very nice and clean. It was homey and cozy and everything looked clean. They had areas where you could just sit and watch TV, so you didn't have to stay in your room. They have a garden area that is enclosed so that you can walk around in the area.
Provider Response
Denise
5
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November 21, 2022
Bickford of Cedar Falls was outstanding. It was very homey. It was very nice and very friendly. It was clean. People were nice and polite. They had no problem showing us what was available and talking to other clients that were in the rooms to see if we could look at their rooms. It's a very small community. It was only like 22 beds, and so we saw a medium room that was open. We got to meet some of the people there by doing that, and it was a great experience. They had like a kitchenette with a studio. It was just a microwave and a small refrigerator. The studio had a single bed, and the one bedroom had a double bed or a full-size bed. The kitchen was set up the same. It had a small refrigerator. You have to supply your microwave, but it's still a very small kitchenette. So, it was good. It's what my mom needed. Everything is inclusive. They have common areas where they get together and do exercise. They also paint. They let people know when they're going to be starting so that they can do it also. If they don't remember the time or they haven't looked at a calendar, they are made aware that that is going to start, so they can just go ahead and come on in. They do family-style dining so that they can all be with each other, and they can sit down and talk and that was outstanding. The only thing that's a drawback, it was a very small dorm refrigerator. That's the only thing that we didn't care about. We would get a different dorm refrigerator so that she could have her Frigidaire and her freezer separated.
Provider Response
Jennifer
4
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January 23, 2022
Bickford of Cedar Falls was very welcoming and very homey. When I came in, they were doing an activity with the residents in the living area. They're very kind. It was really expensive though. They offered it to where if mom's health declined, she'd be able to stay in the same facility. There would be no transfers or anything like that, and the level of care would just exceed obviously. They had a locked down facility if you needed it, and it's heavily secure. It was quite homey, just a little expensive. They had in-house physical therapy, they were doing an arts and crafts thing in the living room, they had movie nights, and there was just a lot of interaction among the residents. The hallway was very long. Mom's room, and she's got scoliosis really bad, would have been a long haul for her to the main dining area.
Provider Response
Ann
5
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October 14, 2021
Our overall experience with Bickford of Cedar Falls was really good. It was a very nice place. The staff members were very friendly and accommodating to us. When we came to visit, they were prepared and answered all our questions. It was tough not to take my mom there; it was a very nice place. The facility was beautiful, well decorated, and very clean. She gave us a tour of the entire place. She showed us all the apartments, and they were all very nice. We saw the menu but we didn't try the food. They had lot of good choices. It was well-balanced.
Provider Response
Tim
5
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September 9, 2021
My mother is in Bickford of Cedar Falls. They're very friendly and it's a clean facility. The staff has been wonderful, so far. She said it's pretty good food, and it's all homemade. Visitors have to wear masks.
Provider Response
Diane
5
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July 6, 2021
Bickford of Cedar Falls was very beautiful. The game rooms were very nice and the person who gave us the tour, Kelsey, did a wonderful job answering any questions that I had. She's very welcoming, she had cookies and was waiting for me for the visit so that was nice. She even had a sign that said, "Welcome, Diane" outside so they went through some extra little things to make it very personal as well. The other thing I liked is that they had a courtyard that the residents can go in and out of and they don't have to be assisted out. They can go out by themselves in the garden with lots of flowers and vegetables and all of that. They have bingo, crafts, and they gave me the calendar of events that was posted in the hallway but I didn't look closely into it. The staff also said their food is homemade, everything is homemade. The facilities were clean and it did not smell. There was music playing in the family room with the fireplace going. They seem to go the extra mile to make the residents feel like they're in a home environment.
Provider Response
Kenny748500
4
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November 1, 2016
Bickford of Cedar Falls' rooms are adequate and seemed nice. They had a rec room and a TV area. The dining area seemed alright, and the staff seemed pretty decent, friendly, and caring.
Caring Family Member2
4
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March 16, 2016
Bickford of Cedar Falls is very nice, but they were way too overpriced for what you get with their rooms. They were OK, but I don’t think they're equipped for elderly people as far as not including a refrigerator in the room, just a small one down the hall. The place was beautiful and clean, and the staff was very friendly. I was not able to eat there, but I saw the beautiful dining area wherein you order your meals off a menu. I didn’t see a lot of activities at the time of my visit, but they had a lot of activities scheduled.
Mark108741150
4
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November 16, 2015
My dad is at Bickford. We like the clean feel about it and the location. They’re doing a good job. They help my dad with everything that he needs, like taking a bath and going to the bathroom.
MissHer
5
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December 30, 2014
My mom is here, and it is a good place. She has been there for two or three months. I like that it is clean, the staff is nice, and they do a lot of activities. There is a little courtyard in the middle of the building. The building is locked down, and they cannot get out. She is doing fine, and they are taking good care of her. The food is good. They have a little menu every day and ask them what they want. The serve them like a little restaurant style. That's why they think they were in a restaurant.
Caring97401750
5
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December 5, 2014
I chose it because it was something close to where I live, and it was comfortable for my father. It is very clean, and the people that work there are really, really nice. I am absolutely satisfied.
Caring96749650
4
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October 31, 2014
Bickford of Cedar Falls was just fine, I don’t have any problems. The staff was very friendly. The lowest costs of rooms were very small, and as they went up in price of course they got bigger. The bathroom seemed like they were room maneuver for somebody. They brought us some snacks, and that was good. I think they have a lot of activities, and the residents that I saw seemed to be active and happy.
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Services and Amenities of Bickford of Cedar Falls in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Diet & Nutrition
- Diabetic
Fitness & Wellness Programs
- Salon Services
Health Services
- Hospice Care
- Skilled Nursing
- Medication Reminders
On-Site Services
- Religious Services
- Veterans Affairs (VA) Aid Assistance
Pets
- Pets
Therapies
- Physical Therapy/Rehabilitation
Inside Amenities
- Cable/Satellite TV in Common Area
Dining
- Communal Dining
- Guest Meals
Games Hobbies & Recreation
- Arts & Crafts Activities/Programs
- Literary Activities/Programs
- Educational Activities/Programs
- Music Activities/Programs
- Facilitated Field Trips/Outings
- Tabletop & Other Games/Programs
- Horticultural Activities
Housekeeping & Maintenance
- Housekeeping Services
- Laundry Services
- Linen Services
Outside Amenities
- Garden
Room Amenities
- Wifi/Internet In Unit
Transportation & Shopping
- General Transportation Services
Personal Care
- Cooking services
Financing & Payment Options
- Home Sale Assistance
- Financial Guidance
- Rent And Care Fees
Guests
- Guest Parking
Languages
- English spoken
Parking Options
- Parking Lot
Specialized Staff
- Nurse on Staff (Part time)
Kitchen Types
- Kitchenette
Additional Amenity Information
- Fee Structure: We offer a month-to-month rental
- Technology: Emergency call system
Costs for Bickford of Cedar Falls in Cedar Falls, Iowa
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