Memory Care Communities in Queen Creek, AZ

"I toured Sky Vista. There wasn't anything I disliked. I thought it was a nice place. It's just a little bit expensive. It was a memory care facility, and they had that well done. It is very well put together for that kind of problem, specifically, which is what I was looking for. It looked fantastic. There was a show, a guy singing, and a bunch of people watching it and having a good time. It seemed to me that it was very good."

"My mother has moved into Savanna House Assisted Living & Memory Care. She's in assisted living. It's a 10 out of 10. The staff is amazing, trying, and patient. We love it and it's clean. The activities director is a 10, too. Her name is Kim, and there's always something going on. She has a one-bedroom attached to a patio on the courtyard. They have a putt-putt ball right out her door in the courtyard. It's a smaller facility, so it's more intimate. You get to know everybody in there. They have a library, a puzzle room, a bar for happy hours, which are on Thursdays and Fridays, and a movie room. The food is amazing. She loves it. For Father's Day, they're gonna have a big barbecue and a car show for the residents. The activity director goes above and beyond."

"Infinite Care in Chandler was immaculate. It smelled terrific and they had an availability. The problem is that my husband is more severe than the other residents in the household. They're more ambulatory and they're verbal, and he's not. He's in a wheelchair and he's not verbal at all. So, their level of care wasn't sufficient. Other than that, it was an beautiful place. The owners are just wonderful people. The rooms were a nice size. They shared a bathroom and they had a master bedroom, but somebody was occupying it. They have a nice little yard out in the backyard and the meals they cooked look good. They have a living room with a big TV in it."

"When I went over at Sunrise of Gilbert, I realized that they had facilities to accommodate just about any kind of a person that came in there, but when I sat down and talked to the representative, he filled me in very quickly that this is a private-owned company, and therefore there are no individuals living there that have support through Medicaid or otherwise. We toured the rest of the facility more or less, with what it would mean if I moved there as an independent person. It's very clean. They have a lot of activities, but just the way the place was built, they didn't go on the cheap. The person who gave the tour was a young person. very well dressed, very professional, very informative, and took all the time I needed to look the place over. I wasn't rushed. As my situation moves along, I will keep in touch with him to see how things are changing in regards to what I look at and what I'm thinking about doing. I saw the dining area and I saw their menus and it was very, very, very pleasant. It seemed like eating at a very nice restaurant. Not just comfort food, they had some of the finer things. If you have to downsize, you can move into someplace like Sunrise of Gilbert and feel like you haven't just thrown your whole life out the window. There's still a lot of life left and opportunities for you to explore and meet new people."

"My in-laws moved to Inspira Gateway. It was a very modern, clean, and updated space. It had been open only three years, so it was new. The food's good and the apartment is very spacious. They had a lot of offerings. They have trivia night, and several opportunities for movies, bunco, games, and other things. The staff has been extremely helpful and friendly and went out of their way to make sure we were comfortable and had everything we needed."

"My mother-in-law recently moved into Parkland Memory Care. I was very impressed with the person that we talked to at the beginning. She was very passionate and knowledgeable about the whole disease process. She had been doing it for many, many years and I was very impressed with that. Everybody so far has been extremely kind, welcoming, caring, and willing to help. We saw and toured the building. They mix levels; they don't separate. I like the decor, and the light, open look. From what I can see, it looks very clean. The residents seemed happy, and they had some activities going on. Twister was going on and it was pretty cute. They take them on field trips and some other things. They're very busy and they don't let them stay in their rooms. They make them come out to the area where everybody is out there with the rest of the people. They have the salon with the pedicure, manicure, and hair. They have a pharmacy, but we haven't done any of that yet. It's an excellent location. It's a mile and a half from our house and is right around the corner. They showed us a menu and it looked good. They have a therapy dog that comes in and they will let us bring our dog together with his records and registration. My mother-in-law likes her dog. They said that they have a furniture package, but we already have them at the other place. I will just look over and move it. But it looks like you can do it either way. They encourage a single bed because they thought it would be better, but it wasn't necessary. It looks great, clean, and welcoming. I know we're paying a little bit more over there than we were paying but if it helps and it does her good, it's worth every penny."

"I toured Cadence Chandler. They have nice rooms, and a big variety of choices from small studios up to two bedrooms. They had their combination of independent, assisted living, and memory care. It's a nice facility. Everything looked fine. Everything looks satisfactory. They have lots of programs. Lots of things to do during the day. They have various activities like card games, yoga, and exercise. They have a pool and they have an exercise room. Diana was helpful and very courteous. She showed me around."

"We toured Brookdale Baywood. They had a good restaurant. The rooms were clean. They were helpful. The food was excellent. They did a good job of cleaning the facility. They had good staff. The atmosphere was very congenial. The room size was average."

"We went to Brookdale East Mesa. I liked it. The rooms are kind of small. They have their own private room, and I like that. My wife didn't like much of anything because she doesn't want to go. What I looked at was a room that had a TV, and everything was pretty well laid out. They didn't have a shower in the room, but I can fully understand why not because people may fall down or get hurt. Everything was clean and freshly painted. I think this building has been there for a while, but the outside was nice. The RN was the one that greeted us and took us through the place, and she was excellent. She answered my questions and did a fine job. It wasn't the most expensive, but it looked fine. They had wings where smaller groups ate together and stuff like that. I kind of like that idea instead of putting my wife in with a whole bunch of other people. So this would help with her needs and the way that she is. The people that we talked to were quite friendly, and the other staff members were doing a good job with it."

"clean, rooms. love the home feeling food is good the care goes over and beyond. couldnt be happier."

"I'm not interested in Whitestone Assisted Living. I feel like it's very dark and I'm not comfortable that the wellness director is only an LPN. It doesn't seem like there's very good medical oversight. The facility was nice and the villa was nice, but it felt like a nursing home, and I don't know that my dad would be comfortable leaving my mother there. I was not impressed with this community. I don't think that it was fairly priced. Whitestone was smaller and darker. The building not only looked older, but it smelled older. I wasn't able to interact with the staff because they were kind of just sitting around. When I went into one of the villas, one of the staff members was on her phone. The other staff member who we talked with was alert. He was very personable and pleasant, but the staff didn't seem to be engaged with the residents beyond just passing medications and performing activities of daily living with the residents. It felt a little disconnected to me. My mom would kind of be left on her own and left to her own devices. The building was old. The lady who toured us had a difficult time getting in and out of a secured gate. The gate was rusted and looked very old. It looked like it needed to be repaired. The rooms seemed distant. Their wellness director is an LPN, and she's distant. She's not connected and involved, so it made me very uncomfortable. I just felt like I would be putting my mom in a room and forgetting about her."

"I moved into Heritage Village Assisted Living & Memory Care. They're very caring people that help take care of things. If you need help, they're right there. The food is good, and I gained weight, and that's not good. It's a very friendly place. They have someone they call a housemother, and she runs around a lot, comes in, and makes sure everything's all right. You can always call her if you need something. I've never had an issue since I've been here. The staff is so helpful. The facility is very clean. It's perfect. If there's a mess, it's taken care of right away. Places like this are expensive. This place is very close to my daughter's house. I'm only a half-mile away from her."

"Solterra Senior Living at Chandler probably had the most up-to-date security system of all the places I've been to, not only because of the smoking area, for the person to be able to go outside and still be fenced in. They have a security system that at every corner and up and down the hallways, there is a checkpoint. If a person walks by that checkpoint, it records that person. So if somebody comes and say, "I want to come and visit Maria," and I go to her room and she's not there, I can go and ask them to see where Maria is, and they'll be able to pinpoint her to the very last place she passed. It's absolutely incredible. Other places don't have a system like this that actually tracks the person. They had private rooms. It's 40 minutes from the house here, but it is well worth the 40 minutes to go over there. The staff member was very cordial and very informative. He was the only man that showed me around, and all the rest of the facilities were women. I appreciated the women, but he really did a good job of showing everything. He gave me all the information that I needed. All the places gave me the information, but he just had so much more to offer. The place was exceptional."

"I went to Acoya Mesa. It's lovely. It's only five years old. Everything was very clean and neat. The people were friendly. We only met one person, the tour person. So I didn't see anybody else. She was very knowledgeable. The facility is beautiful. It's very nice."