Memory Care Communities in Madison, AL

"My brother has moved into Limestone Lodge. The overall experience can be described as pleasant and friendly with a home-like atmosphere. I chose this community for exactly those reasons. I visited some other places and some looked and smelled like a nursing home. Limestone Lodge looked like it had people of my brother's socio-economic status, educational background, and roughly the same age, and I thought he'd be more comfortable with people from his same type of background. The facility director is very personable, very informative, and very helpful. She gave me her cell phone number and her office number. I had a couple of questions and issues getting my brother moved in, and she was able to handle them. She was even available off-duty for answers. She was instrumental in us picking the place. I met a couple of the staff members. I especially want to appoint a special notice to Rebecca. She is an LPN there. She was very informative and patient. She welcomed my brother personally. She spent time getting to know him and explained to him a little bit about the schedule, the activities, the people, and that type of thing. I liked Stephanie and Rebecca. They welcomed us like we were family. We wanted my brother to have a family atmosphere. My brother says the food is fine, but he didn't think there was enough of it. My brother is 6 feet 4 inches and 257 pounds, so he may eat a little more than your average person. I liked the condition of the facilities. Broad drive, plenty of parking, neatly trimmed lawn, and neat porch with lots of places to sit. It had a clean foyer and living activity area. The dining area was spic and span. My brother was able to move into a room that had just recently been remodeled. I think the remodel was completed two days before he moved in and it still smelled like fresh paint. It's got a step-in shower, new cabinets, a new toilet, and fresh paint. The closet has been redone. There are large closets. So he was very happy with that. There was plenty to do for activities but I'm not sure that they were all specific to my brother that he would have enjoyed them. He would enjoy some of them. He's more of a loner, so he would not have engaged in the activities maybe as much as some of the other residents, especially at first. I think as he gets more comfortable, he will engage more. However, every time I went there, there was somebody there with the clients. They were either providing care or providing meals. They're doing things like watching TV with them, talking with them, playing cards, and playing board games. There's a lot of involvement and activities with the clients, and I like that because it needs to be a home atmosphere where everybody's comfortable with each other. "

"Clare Bridge is a well-kept and clean facility in a nice area of Hampton Cove. It is convenient to Huntsville, without dealing with all of the traffic and pollution of the city. The staff members were very friendly, and the clients seemed to be very happy with where they were staying... which is what matters the most. I highly recommend this facility. "

"I toured Residences at Wellpoint. It was like a concierge hotel. It was huge and all the residents seemed to be very happy, but it was just kind of like a hotel. It's very similar to the other facility we went to only a little more high-end because it had Alexa in every single room. The staff was very open and honest about what she could and could not offer depending on our needs. She also gave us some other options as far as skilled nursing facilities to look into. They had a greenhouse area and a courtyard."

"My mom moved into Heritage Assisted Living & Memory Care. They are wonderful, very helpful, coordinated everything with us, and went out of their way to make her feel welcome. They bought her a special candy bar that she likes, bought her flowers, and put her name on the door, and welcome signs. All the ladies are very caring, and I'm very happy with them. I was there yesterday and they made us orange cream milkshakes in the middle of the afternoon. They were awesome. One afternoon she was there having lunch, and she had a huge slice of ham with some beans, fried green tomatoes, and chocolate pudding that looked delicious. I could have eaten it myself. They're nice, and if she wants something special that she likes, they go out of their way to try to get what she wants and make sure she's taken care of. What they did just before she moved in, they painted the whole room. They put in all new flooring. It's a nice size. Even she commented on how big the room was. She was quite happy. She was a little nervous about stepping down from a two-bedroom apartment, but this is more than she needs, so she's pretty content. She went to bingo the second day she was there. She won four times, and she's pretty tickled. We compared prices in other places, and theirs is probably one of the best."

"We toured Monark Grove Madison with a nice lady named Angela. We toured the memory care unit. It is a relatively new facility. It's bright. The rooms seem a little smaller than others, but it's well set up. It seems to be well-staffed. They have a great deal of activities and a lot of space. They're the only ones we've seen so far with a heated in-ground pool and also an outdoor play space for visiting children. The staff did a great job. I just didn't get the feeling that it was a close-knit community."

"Merrill Gardens at Madison was my first choice, but I had to have a first floor apartment that opened out into the patio for my dog, and there was no possibility in the near future of that happening. I really liked the location. There's a grocery store right across the street and a shopping area right there. The facility was very nice, but there was no availability for what I needed. The staff during the tour was wonderful, very knowledgeable, very friendly, very welcoming, and introduced me to some of the residents. My daughter and I ate lunch there one day and the food was very good. The apartment was really nice. I liked that it had a washer and dryer in the apartment. It had a bedroom with a bath and living room kitchen combination. It had a really nice-sized bathroom. They had all kinds of activities and a very full calendar. They had a movie room, exercise classes, and I saw some of the residents in a painting class. It would have been a really nice place to live."

"Regency Retirement of Huntsville is excellent. They made it very easy for my mom. So far, everything has gone smoothly, and she's doing just fine living there. They have a salon available ,and she's set up to use it soon. You can only go in if you're vaccinated, so I have to wait and see. Her room is nice. It's small, which is probably good. She's got a window so she can look outside or have some sunshine in. They have activities available for them, and they have a tinted sun room. They have very nice grounds for them to look at and walk through if they can. They also have a private courtyard for the memory care residents, but I haven't seen it at this point. I've been very impressed with the staff. They've been very helpful, very pleasant, and very humble. It's a nice and very clean place."

"My mom has signed up at Fleming Farms Senior Living, she's on their waiting list. We looked at several places that are close to this area. She is still an independent person and they offered independent living too. It's close to where she wanted to be, which was her home and it's also very nice. It's a new, more contemporary, and open space concept, which was very important. She's able to have dogs, which is very important to her too. Other facilities also offered these, but we chose Fleming mainly because of the address, the openness of everything, and all the other different things that they provide. It had different parts, but the part that we needed to look at was their independent living."

"My dad is here. So far, we've been pleased with the staff. My dad has a nice room. Their activities are engaging. He has participated in all of them and has gotten active, which is what I needed him to do and what he needed to do to be able to keep walking. So far, we're pleased. Family members are able to take people out of the memory care into the assisted living side. There are a couple of garden areas there that are nice. That's important for my dad to be able to have a place to get out. They have a piano, so music groups and church choirs can come, and that's important to him, too. So far, the activity director is very good. For memory care, he is intellectually engaging with them. He reads to them, they play word games, and they talk about things in history. He seems good and kind, and he gets them talking, and that appeals to my dad. For the staff, I've been there late at night, and they don't know I'm there. But I've heard their interactions with difficult people, and they are so patient and very caring. For the meals, I've only been there at breakfast time. They don't vary breakfast so far. I hope that they offer pancakes or waffles, something besides scrambled eggs. My dad enjoyed the other meals though. It's not a brand-new building. I think there are things that need to be done about them. It's still adequate though. The windows are nice, and the halls are nice and big. The memory care is small enough for my dad, so it's good for memory care."

"My mother stayed at Athens Health and Rehabilitation. They were very kind and very attentive. My mother arrived with them not having received the information that they needed about her health, so they had to backpedal immediately. She was not mobile when she arrived and they were told she was completely mobile and they did not have all her healthcare paperwork. They persevered through and cared for her and talked with my sister and me to help to ask questions and just doing everything that they could to help us and take care of my mom. It was very clean, but it's an old facility. It wasn't dirty in any way. They did their best with what they had. My mom was only there for two weeks before she passed away, and we were in and out at least every other day at different times. The different times that the staff was there, they were wonderful at all times. They're not perfect. They were caring for all the other residents that were there, but they were phenomenal. I was there to feed her twice and it was not bad in any way. My mom was so sick when she got there and hospice was involved right away."

"We liked The Terrace at Priceville. The rooms were very bright and airy. You can drive right up to your door or into a garage in their little cottages. It's cheerful, and the people were lovely. "

"We went to Westminster Assisted Living and Memory Care of Decatur. It was very good, and it's a very nice, clean place. The staff was very friendly. It was very nice. The staff who assisted us was very nice, very accommodating, and answered all our questions. The room is a studio room. Once you see the furniture in there, it's bigger than you think. There is room for the bed, dresser, chest drawer, and the chairs. There's a large bathroom and a large closet. The facility itself is decorated very nicely and clean. It's very nice. The dining room was very nice. It looked like a restaurant."