Memory Care Communities in Bettendorf, IA

"I toured StoryPoint Bettendorf. The staff we met was great. The price was a little higher than what we decided on, but it's still a great place. It was beautiful."

"We visited Senior Star. The staff was super. They were great. They showed us everything that we needed to see and explained everything in detail. We were totally satisfied with the tour. It was very nice. I would not mind living there myself. It had so many different things to offer that the others didn't have. "

"Charter Memory Care of Moline was very nice and spacious, and it's arranged where you would kind of go around a circle, and then you have a big courtyard in the middle of it, which was nice. The people there were friendly, too. The staff who took me on the tour answered any questions I had, showed me everything, and showed me where they ate. They had a nice dining room, and I could have a meal with my wife if I came to visit with a slight charge. It's well arranged. They had a good menu and a pretty good selection. They had a beauty shop and a courtyard. I think one person even had a little planter box there. They had a nice room for television and stuff. They played different games, and they had dogs."

"So far, I love them. My husband is doing so much better there. They have a gorgeous, big, fenced-in yard with lots of trees and flowers that they can go out and walk around in. So that's one reason why I got it, so he can go out as long as it's nice. They have benches and chairs and swings and things for them, so I love that part of it. The help there is extremely helpful and very good with the residents. I have been there several times on several different shifts and met a lot of the girls that take care of the patients, and they are all tremendous. I have been there at meal times and I have tasted the food, and it's all very good. He always eats every bite of it. So far, I just absolutely love it. I can come and go whenever I want and I'm always welcome there. They take very good care of him. He wasn't getting baths and things like he should have at the last place, and he gets them here. He gives them a little trouble, he's a little belligerent, but they do very well with handling him and bypassing his efforts to get out of taking showers. They're very good about it and I have no complaints whatsoever. I have been there every week, I don't care what day you're there, what time you're there, those people are being taken care of and that was important to me. The room, they had just painted it and cleaned it before he moved in, and it's very clean and very nice. It's big enough that he has a dresser, a nightstand, two chairs, a little table, and his bed. None of the rooms have their own bathroom, the one he uses is right across the hall from his bedroom. There are three of them in each section of the rooms. So there's one practically outside of every room, just right across the hall, so that's not a problem. They're very good about helping him get his clothes out. His room is always spotless and his bed is always made. I am extremely happy with the place. They threw a birthday party for one of the residents. In the last place, my husband was inside his room all the time by himself, and now he goes out. They have two big living rooms with couches, chairs, and a TV, and he goes out and sits in them and talks to the people. In the dining room, they have a gas fireplace with two chairs, one on each side of it. So he likes to go out and sit in front of the fireplace and talk to anybody that's wandering through or roaming around. He seems to be much more content than he was, and he's eating well. They can have seconds if they wanted, most days. He had lost weight in the last place, and he's gaining it back because he's eating well now. I am just so happy that I moved him, he's doing so much better over there. It's a small place, and I like how it's more like a family than being in a nursing home or a big memory care facility. Everybody talks to everybody and the help all treat them like they're family. One of the patients was laying out on the sofa in the living room taking a nap, and they said, "We told them they could do that. This is their home, if they want to take a nap on the couch in front of the TV, that's fine." There's a lot of room for people to sit and talk. They've got flower beds and they've got planter boxes. The flower beds are waist-high so they don't have to bend over to see the flowers. And they planted tomatoes in one of them and they've got little cherry tomatoes planted that they told them when they got ripe they could eat them. And so they all keep watching the little tomatoes to see when they're going to get ripe. You can always get a hold of somebody to talk to, I get everybody's cellphone numbers so that I could call and talk to the nurse if they're not at the building. When it's nice enough, they let the people go outside and there's always somebody there with them even though it's fenced in."

"I went and toured The Fountains. It was a very nice facility. They have a nice-sized kitchenette with full-sized appliances, but we don't need that. They have parking under the building, so that's nice. They were very accommodating. I did not eat the food there, but they have a very nice dining room. They have activities all day long. You can pick and choose what you want to do. They have a nice exercise room. They have pretty much the same stuff. The only reason my brother-in-law chose not to go there is that it's off the beaten path from everything else that he normally does. If he needed more care, he would have to do assisted living. He would need to move, and he can't stay in the same room."

"My wife is now at Bickford Senior Living. We chose it because it was close to home, and it’s a nice place. It looked fairly new even if it isn’t. It’s clean and well lit and air conditioned properly. They have a lot of programs every day, although I don’t know specifically what they are. Everything is just good. "