The Best Memory Care Communities in Citrus County, FL

"Brookdale Canopy Oaks was a great place. The room was pretty good. It's excellent. It's just that they don't have a two-bedroom. The dining area was fine and they had a lot of stuff going on. It's a nice place. No doubt about it. The staff was also very nice."

"My first priority deciding on an ALF/Memory Care facility: Medical care in a caring environment, provided by experienced staff. Choosing Elevated Estates, Brooksville met my requirements. The medical, support, and facility staffs attention to my husband was exactly what he needed. Yes, the facility is undergoing major physical renovations. While that was ongoing, it is clean, comfortable, and when something unexpected happened they addressed it practically immediately. I’m truly grateful for the care Elevated Estates Brooksville gave our family."

"It was very nice. The staff was very friendly during my visit. They had a lot to do. This might be the place that I choose. Their hallways were a little tiny, which kind of frightened me in case there was a fire. The rooms that I saw were very clean. Their food was very good, and they had a couple of different shifts for dinners. You always sit at the same table, so the residents would not get confused. "

"My friend moved to Casalia Gardens. It's clean and well-appointed. She has her own room and everyone's been very nice. It's a small place and they seem to care about their residents. She is in the memory care and they all seem to be very knowledgeable and very helpful. I have not tasted the food, but I have been there while they are preparing it and they prepare it fresh from scratch. The place smells wonderful when they're cooking. They do little crafts and coloring, and they have visiting therapy dogs that come in. She doesn't have a private bath, but she's only sharing it with one other person, and the other amenities are all excellent. She's getting what she pays for and she's paying less than where she was while getting more."

"I was impressed from the time I saw the facility to the time I got done with my tour, with everything they had, including the food. The rooms were very nice. They're very clean. The person who assisted me was very nice. She went above and beyond. She had taken a couple of meals out to my parents to try to give them an idea of how the food would be and what to expect. I wasn't expecting that. The dining area was very nice. It was good. They had several activities. They had the fitness room and the hair salon thing for women. It was nice."

"We went to Elevated Estates Forest Oaks and looked at it because I know people who've had family members there and so forth. The person we spoke with was very helpful. The place was nice. Not as nice as the previous one, but it's very clean, welcoming, and homey. It has a central big common area and the rooms were off of it. No smells or anything. Their activity schedule looked nice. They had nice printed activities."

"Serenades at The Villages is a memory care facility only and had the services I was primarily interested in. I was impressed with the competent staff. I just felt confident that my wife will be safe and well-cared for. They have music, craft, and exercise programs."

"A Banyan Residence was extremely expensive, but the people there were extremely happy and kind. My husband was in memory care and they had him sitting up in the wheelchair from early in the morning until bedtime often. I complained several times and said that they can't have someone sitting like that all day for a year and half. He needs to lie down and take a nap after lunch and so they started doing that for him. There was a lot of entertainment, where they would go from one entertainment to another and many people that are in charge of activities said, "This is not good for these people. They need to lay down and rest." You just cannot have lunch and put them into this big exercise room that had a huge TV there, and kept them going all day. That was not desirable, but they did many other things that were exceedingly good. The staff were extremely kind, always helpful, and always guiding. The food was horrible. One case was they had a little piece of dried-up, overcooked chicken, very thin, like a piece of paper, that you couldn't even cut with a knife and other things in the plate that you didn't even know what they were. They had two skinny little pieces of bacon and a tablespoon of egg. The Christmas meal was just a disgrace. They had a piece of whole wheat toast, a little piece, like a Pepperidge Farm size, and they put them alongside. No jelly. No butter. They put them in the oven and I said, "Why aren't you toasting it and giving it a nice piece of bread?" They said that they don't have a toaster. I said, "You have a couple hundred people and you don't even have a toaster?" That was just unbelievable. In the morning, no butter on the pancakes and syrup. I really complained and then they started changing things. The place is beautiful, but they are putting all the money outside, on the grounds. They have in many cases, a recliner, that you can't move (if you're really in a horrible shape, I guess you don't need it.) They have so many things going for them, but they're spending a fortune outside in landscaping. It is absolutely an oasis. When you have a memory problem or you're just sitting around staring, you don't need all of that."

"The Residence was too big of a community. I picked out a big apartment when they were building it. We lived there for a couple of months and it was expensive. Otherwise, it had three or four elevators serving the residents. They had everything, assisted living and senior living and I was in senior living. They were very good. "

"Toured this past week and very impressed with the rooms, The food choices and the variety of amenities. I like that the buildings are hurricane safe for sheltering in place. I thought Patty did a great job giving me all the information I needed to make the best decision for me."

"I moved to Brookdale Chambrel Pinecastle independent living, and it's been good so far. The rooms are bigger than most of the places I have visited and it has a kitchen. I chose this place because it has a lot more to offer than other communities I've looked at and it's also nicer. I like that they have a bigger living room aside from the bedroom and the kitchen."

"We were very pleased. We interacted with the staff and were very pleased with them. The rooms looked very nice to us but not spacious, yet more than adequate. They weren't really crowded or cramped. The dining area looked very good. What we liked best was the interaction with the personnel. Everybody that we passed would speak to us and seemed very friendly and very caring."

"My mother is in Pleasant Grove Manor. I have nothing but positive experiences. The people there are nice, the place is maintained, I'm happy, and my brothers are happy. It's a small facility, they only have 20 beds, it's kind of personal and intimate considering that it's an institution. It's not an overwhelming large institution where you get lost in the shuffle. They don't have many amenities, they have a yard in the back with a pond, a fountain, and that's about it."

"I found on my visit there that the staff was very friendly and caring. They also offered a lot of different activities for the patients there, some of them were bingo, cards, checkers among other things. They also had a chapel for those that wanted to attend church service. There were computers and internet access for those wishing to get online. I liked the fact that they had keyboards with large letters. "