Memory Care Communities in Maumelle, AR

"My mom is currently at Parkway Village. It's excellent. It's very homey. It's warm. It's got a fireplace in the large living area. It's just a nice, good atmosphere. The staff is excellent. They're registered nurses, and they take very good care of my mom. They play bingo, they have dog visits, and they have painting and music. The food, from what I understand and what I've seen so far, is very good. They have a very clean, very nice, and inviting dining room."

"Fox Ridge was very caring, and what stood out was they were very attentive to my father’s needs. I find it to be very clean, and they have great activities. The food was not five star, but it was good. I thought the common dining area was set up to really have the residents interact with one another. I’m very pleased with it. "

"The appearance of Ridgemere was just impressive. It's a newer facility. It was bright and pretty. We had a scheduled appointment to see the rooms, and we were able to do that. The staff kindly showed us all through the facility. It was just very impressive and very clean. People walking around looked happy. They were playing dominoes in the breakroom. The restaurant was very impressive. It was a higher quality place than the other place, and the price wasn't all that different. They did have the memory care available, which my mother-in-law did not need yet. She's pretty independent right now, but she's 93 and they had different levels of care and that also was reflected in how much you paid, which is understandable. That was encouraging as far as if she should decline, that she would go to the next level of care. It was a happy place. You just had a good feeling when you walked in. I saw people with little pets, but it didn't smell like animals living there. We did meet a housekeeper and a beautician, but we didn't meet a lot of the staff. It was pretty much just the lady who gave us the tour and she was very kind and very informative. The menu itself was very impressive and they had daily specials plus a menu you could order off of if that wasn't your cup of tea. You can get it to go. You can sit in the restaurant or the dining facility. They have a little laundry facility and a beauty shop. It appears to have everything my mother-in-law might need. When you walked in, it just looked beautiful. They had it decorated for Christmas and such big, open, airy areas with lots of sun. She's on the waiting list. Everything is on ground level. There's nothing where she's got to take an elevator to get around or whatever. Everything was conveniently located."

"We went to Fox Ridge. The lady that we talked to was very nice and willing to assist. It’s very nice and clean. The staff from the administrators, directors and the nursing director, was nvery nice and helpful. They had an activity room, laundry, and beauty shop. They have been excellent. "

"My Aunt is a resident of Mt.Carmel Community. At the moment we are pleased with the care he is receiving there. She likes it there and says it seems like home. The building is old but the interior was clean and did not smell. The staff was friendly and answered all my questions. Her appearance was clean and neat. The one negative is the building is not air-conditioned sometimes. There were many fans but still very warm. At this time I'm pleased with the care my Aunt is receiving. She also seems to be eating well. "

"They were willing to engage with the community and help support them in Alzheimer's awareness. They were very invested in their staff, too. The person who assisted me was very kind. The dining area was very homey and personal. I saw the residents eating a meal but I didn't see any activities."

"The Blake at Chenal Valley didn't have the assisted living that we could actually look at, but we looked at a two-bedroom independent living. It was excellent. It's a brand-new facility. Everything is new and very pristine. We want to go back and look at the assisted living, but we haven't had a chance to do that since my sister has been ill. We didn't really meet any staff. We just met with one of the property managers and she gave us the tour. She was just excellent. We went to a presentation at The Blake before we visited it. They served us lunch, and it was at a restaurant, so it was wonderful. If you were in assisted living, you got all your meals. The amenities depend on what kind of care you needed. They weren't finished with the construction."

"Woodland Heights' rooms were good. It was a very nice, new, and up-to-date facility. The staff was very friendly and professional. The place is very clean and I saw a library, a church, a meditation room where they do exercises, a game room, and they have a lot of activities. I also saw a swimming pool and the van or bus which takes them places."

"I'm leaning towards here. I like that one. But I'm waiting to see if they're going to let my mom on Medicaid because right now, we can't do private pay because we just don't have the money to do it. The staff members were excellent. They were nice. They try to meet all my needs. I like that they have so many options from my mom to do like the Bible study, the beauty shop, and the cooking classes. I think my mom would love that because she can intermingle with the other residents. Right now, she doesn't intermingle with anybody other than her family, so I just felt that one was better for her. The staff was wonderful. She explained everything. She went to great depth to make sure that I understood what they provide for their residents. And the building was nice and clean. It didn't smell like a lot of them we went to tour."

"I chose StoneBridge of Conway for my mother. It's wonderful. I love them. She was private pay and she needed a memory care unit, so they worked with me. I was in a rush to get her placed because the 24-hour care I had with her at home was dwindling. They did very well to work with me in the haste that I needed. Also, my grandmother was placed in that facility as well, and they took excellent care of my grandmom. The facility in general is beautiful. Everything is out in the open. They have a grand piano in the center of their dining room. It's new and very elegant. The memory care unit is open. They have different areas set out with different stations. They have a nursery station, like for baby dolls and nursery setups. They have a dress-up section set up with hats and scarves and an antique vanity looking thing. They have a little library area. They have different little activity stations set up throughout the unit, and it's not cramped. There are lots of room for the ladies to participate if more than one wants to participate. They have a movie area where all the ladies can sit around and watch movies. They have a game area with different therapeutic tactile things to stimulate. They have a pretty big-sized fish aquarium with different pretty big fish in it. They have a reading/writing section set up with the old-timey rotary style phone, where if they want to write letters or whatever, they can do that. My mom loves the food."

"My dad was at Evergreen Living Center at Stagecoach for rehab and I checked out the nursing home part in the last month because I'm thinking he needs nursing home care. The facility was very nice. For rehab, you get a room by yourself, and for the nursing home room, there are two people. The food was very good, and the place was very, very clean. The staff had excellent communication with the family. It was a very quick process to get your paperwork in and all the paperwork done on time. They were very helpful in doing all the paperwork and making it a quicker process than in some places. That's my very first choice, and I may not be able to get there because a lot of beds are single occupied, and I'm afraid that their beds will get full right now because they only have a couple, before I get my Medicaid kicked in. But it's it's a very, very nice place. They have a hair salon to get your hair cut. I can't say I've seen anything exactly, but supposedly they have a podiatrist and an eye doctor that come in, and these are things you don't get in a nursing home. If you need your hearing checked, they have all these people, these doctors that will come there to the facility, which I've really never seen a lot of before. If someone needs dental care, something about the teeth, they will get a dentist to come out. That was a big plus. The dining area was very nice. It had a lot of tables where you ate with somebody, like three or four people around the table. You did have a choice of what you wanted to drink. When my dad was there in rehab, you go in a line like a little small cafeteria line, and they had a little bit of choice in there."

"Crestview Senior Living was beautiful. Everything was brand new. The facilities were clean. It was just stunning, and it was big. The staff was good. They were friendly and accommodating. It just didn't fit our mom's needs. They had a nice physical therapy room that was close to the front door. They had a beautiful dining room that had a huge fireplace in it, as well as a huge flat- screen television. The tables and chairs were brand new. It looked like you were walking into a top restaurant. They also had a bar separate for those who wanted wine or beer or soda after hours or whatever, and they had staff on hand to do that, that was extra, but it was available to all the residents. They had a very large theater with a big movie screen and the seats like in a movie theater would come down, you could put your Coke or your drink there, and they would show really good movies that they thought people would like to see or people could request a particular movie. They had a beautiful outdoor area that had a barbecue pit, and they would encourage family members of the resident to come and partake and grill and have other family members there. They had a little dog section that if the residents chose to bring their animal there, they could walk it out in this little park and it had like a little tube that the dog could run through and stuff, which I thought was pretty cool. They had nice outdoor seating and stuff like that. They had a room and they had a hairstylist there, so you didn't have to leave the premises to get your hair done."