Memory Care Communities in Wentzville, MO

"Harvester Residential Care is close to where the family can all come and see my mom. It is also close to her home, so she can go home if she wants to. The second reason we chose it is because of money; it's pretty reasonable. I think Harvester Residential Care is a good place for my mom. They have a good reputation. All the residents seem happy, and every one of the staff is very helpful and knowledgeable. Today is her second day; however, my first impressions are very good. They have bowling, they take them shopping, they see movies, and they play cards. It really seems like they're trying to keep their people entertained and active. I met the activities director, and she was very energetic. Mom is sharing a room with another lady. The only thing I don't like about it is that there is no bathroom in the room. The bathroom is across the hall."

"I like Friendship Village Chesterfield. It's a little bit more expensive and a little bit out of my range, but I like it. All the accommodations were lovely. People were starting to go out and visit. Relatives were starting to come in to visit also. It was a really nice place. The staff was great. It was the sales manager. She knew a couple of the residents, and she has been there for a while. She was the sales director, and she brought in her dog to work because they like dogs there. They had some beautiful places and a library. They had 2-bedrooms, 1-bedrooms, studios, and 1-bedroom and a nook. They were all pretty much standard."

"I toured here. They had a nice garden. They have nice apartments. I noticed they had full-sized kitchens and refrigerators. They were located in an urban area, which is nice for people who don't drive. All the people I met there were very nice. It seemed like a very good community. The staff was very good. He's very personable, very nice, covered everything, and took me around. I liked him and he was responsive to me when I had questions. They had a lovely dark area and a nice activity area. They have physical therapy and stuff like that. I think there was a theater. They offered transportation within 15 miles, I believe, and they were pet-friendly."

"My mom had heard about Autumn View Gardens - Ellisville in her independent living facility and some people that she lived with, in their independent community elsewhere had chosen it as an assisted living community, so that's where she's going too. Also, it's close and she wanted to stay within her realm of doctors. It had a lot of greenery around it, and she liked that part. The rooms are beautiful. They are somewhat smaller, but it's definitely enough and sometimes it's better to go smaller when seniors are not as mobile. It was lovely and they all had windows that looked upon some element of the green around there. So, that's nice. My mom was able to try the food and she said it was very good. The dining room's beautiful because it's all windows, like a floor-to-ceiling kind of window, which was so pretty. They have exercises and different activities that take them out to different places at times, and other activity programs. I saw the activity room, which was also beautiful and had windows all around. The person who gave the tour was great and my mother was very happy and satisfied with what she was going to receive and what her room was going to be like."

"We are choosing Oak Pointe of Washington for my husband. It opened less than a year ago and it's in our community, so he feels very comfortable. We'll probably have him there in a couple of weeks. We liked that it has a very good community life in memory care. The caregivers are very much involved with the residents. It is cheerful, sunny, and light. My husband also knew a couple of people who are in memory care that he knows from many years ago, so that was a bonus. The facility is very beautiful. The whole process of application to get in has been very, very thorough and very, very professional. I think he will be very happy there. Everybody has very positive energy. I know my husband will be very encouraged and I feel that he will improve. He's so looking forward to being there. The staff is tuned in to the people that they serve. The dining areas are just wonderful, cheerful, and comfortable. The atmosphere is wonderful. There is security. Before you go in, you call at the door and they will unlock the door for you to have you come in. And then when you go in, there's the dining area, which is all very open. There are two double doors that go out to a very large courtyard that is fenced in with a beautifully wrought iron fence with walkways, and it's self-contained. The rooms are bigger than where he is now. And looking at how the residents decorated their rooms, I believe it's a reflection of how they feel there - very homey, very cozy, and very clean. The outside appearance is beautiful. It's a smaller facility. "

"In the last 12 months Town & Country Senior Living, has had: 2 Executive Directors, 4 Director of Wellness, High turnover of staff, Unable to get direct email for staff (had to go through main line), Poor communication between residents, staff, family and in house doctor, less than a year it has changed ownership again."

"This facility is the home to a great-aunt of mine. I always enjoy visiting her in this home. There are consistently activities and festivities happening. She has normal services available to her including postal, beauty, light shopping, and a full service gym. As an active senior, she enjoys the freedom but also fellowship that this particular center offers her. The only negative I've heard her mention is the high rollover of nursing staff. On visits, the facility appears clean and welcoming. "

"Before I visited this facility to see my grandpa I had a preconceived notion about how it would be. I thought all retirement homes would be disgusting,boring, and lifeless. Well this wasn't the case for my grandfather. To my surprise it was actually pretty clean,it wasn't gross as I had imagined in fact Autumn View Gardens seemed pretty much like a high end hotel. It was so nice and vibrant that I wanted to stay. The staff were always available, I must say that one of the amenities they have is onsite physical therapy which was an extreme plus for my grandpa. I honestly felt this was the best place that he could possibly spend his last days. The few months I visited him,he never had a complaint...well one, he always complained that they were too helpful,whatever that means. I thought I would never trust a retirement home after hearing so many horrible stories about them from friends,but quite frankly I don't have any complaints, Autumn View Gardens was amazing. "

"I've chosen here for my mom, and she has moved in there. It's been great. It's very clean. The people there are very nice, and they seemed to actually care about the residents there. I feel comfortable with my mother being there. They keep them occupied to a great deal. I appreciate that as far as just sitting in her room, they've got stuff for her to do every day."

"My mom is in Village Center Care of Wentzville, and they take good care of her. The doctor and workers are very good and nice. The facility needs to be updated, and they're working on that. They have an open area where you can go outside and smoke."

"We have friends at Twin Oaks Heritage Pointe. It's close to our house. It has a garage, and I wanted a basement and a garage. They have lots of activities every day, a theater, workout room, classes, Zumba, cheer dancing, social hour every afternoon, and a room for family to visit in. They have a van to take you to grocery stores, doctors, Kohl's, and department stores. I'm moving in next month. "

"My mom has stayed at Caregivers Inn. It was kind of small, but we knew that going in. It just didn't meet her needs at the time. We thought it would, but they are working towards it to make it better. I didn't want to badmouth the place completely because they were very nice. They were nice with her and everything. But it's just it ended up having way more care, or memory care, than regular assisted living. The grounds were clean. The staff was okay, but they were short-staffed a lot. They were going through a transition with the management group, and they were going through wanting to get their kind of people in there. So, there was some turnover while we were there. They also got some more help eventually. The room was small, they were just little rooms. The best way to describe it, as my wife puts it was, it reminded her of a boarding house. It wasn't terrible. It just wasn't what we were looking for, and we kind of were in under a gun. There were some extenuating circumstances that if we had a little more time, we may not have chosen caregivers, but they were able to take us right away in the situation that we were in. They offer a lot of the same things as other places, as far as activities. They have bingo, crafts, and different stuff. They tried to make the residents go down and be active in the activities. But again, it ended up being that there was too much intermixing of the memory care with the few residents that were there actually for assisted living. I think they're working towards changing that as best they can, but that was one of the issues that my mother had with why we made the change. The food, I don't think it was as good as what we're getting now. For my mom, it didn't seem like there was enough at meals, and it was pretty much whatever they fixed is what you got. There were no options, everybody ate the same thing. We thought they made them eat a little too early for dinner. It didn't work out for us, but it wasn't a bad facility, and it wasn't run terribly. It was just for my mom's experience, what she was looking for, and what we ultimately wanted for her. It just wasn't the facility for us. A slightly selfish reason for my wife and I is, that it was like a couple of minutes' drive to get to my mom if we needed to."

"Park Place at Winghaven was just beautiful and decorated very nicely. There's a big fireplace in the entryway and huge windows, which made it very welcoming. We went into a small room right off of the entrance, and it had a nice table, chairs, and a little couch. It was just really cozy. They have a beautiful courtyard that is just breathtaking, a gazebo, and tables outside where you can sit and enjoy the view. They have a swimming pool, a hot tub, exercise classes in the water, a game room, and a theater room. The person who gave us the tour was really, really informative. When I first went there for a tour, it was without my mom, and she asked a lot of questions about her, which I loved. She wasn't just trying to sell an apartment, but she wanted to know what my mom's needs were and what her likes and dislikes were. She really tried to get to know her. She used her first name, and she was just really personable. My mother is having a very difficult time giving her home up, and she's very understanding to my situation. She even called several times to check on how things were going. I told her my mom likes to read, and when we got to the library and certain areas, she stopped and said, "This is going to be an area that your mom's going to like." She remembered and listened to me when I was talking about my mom. We looked at a room that was a little bit on the smaller side than some of their other units, but it was on the first floor and it overlooked the beautiful koi pond and the waterfall. When you walk in the front door, you can make a complete circle around it. You can go into the kitchen, into the living room, into the bedroom, into the bathroom, and then end up back at the front door. Your guests don't have to go into your bedroom to use the restroom. They can go in right by the front door, and it will give my mom a little bit of privacy. Even though the area is small, it basically had a kitchen with a full-size stove, a full-size refrigerator, and a full-size dishwasher. Everything was clean and tidy, and the appliances practically look brand new. They serve food from seven in the morning to seven at night, and you could order anything that you wanted. My mom has a very sensitive digestive system, and they had a lot of bland things on the menu -- and a lot of her favorites were on there. They also have a happy hour Monday through Friday, where they have coffee, tea, punch, and sweets. There's an ice-cream bar that they could use on a daily basis as well. It was very nice. They had a private dining room that they're not using now due to COVID, but once things start opening back up we can reserve that room for family gatherings. They have a little kitchen area with a microwave and things like that. When my mom gets there on her move-in day, they have these people who will come to greet her, give her a gift, sit with her at dinner that night and just befriend her. I just think that's wonderful because my mom's on the shy side anyway. It's kind of their job, but they're outgoing individuals, and they love what they do."

"My wife was a resident of Delmar Gardens of O'Fallon. I like the place but it's very expensive. There was a little misunderstanding originally about what the cost is going to be. They gave me two different prices, a price I signed a contract on, and then I came around at the end of the month to pay for it, they wanted a different price. It turned out that the two office people had changed their prices during the month, two office ladies, one didn't note what the other one did whatsoever. The facility was very nice and clean, and my wife was in a memory care unit, and they seemed to have quite a bit of support there. They had a big room. It was kind of a break room or something with a couple of TVs, and a bunch of chairs. People sat around, and it had some tables over where it had different things set up, games, watercolor painting, and stuff like that."