Memory Care Communities in Manchester, IA

"The best facility I've ever seen. The Alzheimers unit is just incredible. Very caring staff and an excellent experience for my family. "

"Dad is in River Bend Retirement Community. When you went into the memory unit itself, each of the individual rooms, they put different siding on them to make it look like they're a different house. Everyone's house looks different from the outside, or their room looks different from the outside. The common area in the middle had 30 foot ceilings in them. They were painted blue and white to look like clouds. So, the whole place was just open and bright. They had their different seating area. There was a kind of stone fireplace that kind of went up through the middle. And I'm saying fireplace loosely because I can't believe they'd actually have a fireplace on that, in the memory unit part thing, it's just the looks of it. So it just made it look homey. They had couches and stuff sitting around that area. They had a different section where they could go into, in my view, a big walk-in closet with the couch in there. And there were pictures of the animals on the walls and stuff like that. And they said they use that when somebody is getting agitated or something. As far as one lady, for example at 3:00, she always had to worry about getting her kids on the bus. And so then they'd take her in there and then they'd distract her by talking about the animals. And like, "I lived on a farm. Did you live on a farm? Did you have any pets," that type of thing, and that seemed to get the lady past that. And just very helpful, very knowledgeable."

"This facility is wonderful for families. They are very caring and compassionate. My grandmother spent a considerable amount of time there and my grandfather was able to be with her most of the time. After being married for 60 years they didn't want to be apart but he didn't need the extra care. They cared for both of them like family. The facility itself is not very homey, more institutional but I never worried about her care. The staff was the best. My grandmother never wanted for anything, was always kept clean and well looked after. My grandfather was seen to by the staff as well when they weren't obligated to do. They fed him and helped him with some issues that the family who lives so far away weren't able to.My overall impression of this facility was they are a great place for really good care. If you are looking for a homey facility this is unfortunately not it. We were more concerned with her physical needs being met and my grandfather being close by. Both of those were great. "