Memory Care Communities in Concord, NH

"My mother will be moving into The Courville at Bedford - Carlyle. What I like about it is it's small, so I feel that there will be more personalized care. The staff was very upbeat, very positive, and very nice. They seemed to care about their residents. They gave my mom some food to take home with her, and I ate the cookies. The cookies were good. It seemed very updated and very clean. The residents all seemed to be very happy. It seemed welcoming. The dining area was set up similar to a restaurant. I toured some facilities that it was more like a cafeteria with big tables. This place had little tables with four people sitting, so it seemed more pleasant."

"The Arbors of Bedford is very nice. They're very aware of the different abilities and the different personality types, quiet or more, either introverted or extroverted, and they gather them that way, and I liked it. I also liked the fact that it's on one floor. They were all very personable and made you feel welcome, and answered any questions. I mostly saw where they congregate, and it was beautifully done. Everything about the activities is posted for them. It's bright, cheerful, and very happy. The staff showed me the floor plans, and she explained them very well. It looks like it's very accessible, when you have a roommate or if you're on your own and have your own little place. It's very, very good. I was very pleased."

"I toured Bridges by EPOCH at Nashua. It was impeccable. Everything anybody would like to have. The price was correct. The food was great because they sat me down and gave me a sandwich. It's a beautiful place. The only reason that I pulled away from it is the fact that I would like to be close to my wife. In my time, I would like to go to the same place, but they don't have that. They only have memory care."

"Forestview Manor was inviting. I had a very warm kind of reception there. It was very good. The woman who gave me the tour was very good as well. The room I saw seemed spacious. I saw how people set the place up, in terms of their own furniture. This place particularly focuses on memory or cognitive care. They seemed to emphasize that. Even within the rooms, they had ways of helping people with memory issues and such. I saw the area where the dining takes place. There was a library and they had exercise options. They had people doing painting and a person doing crossword puzzles and they had movement exercises and such. There were different options. They had an outside area that eventually if we start getting warm weather, I'm sure they'll go out to use it."

"My mom moved to Brookdale Spruce Wood. It was the nicest one that I went to, and it's not outrageously expensive. They also had a handicapped apartment, which is what I was looking for. The food is not fabulous, but it's okay. The staff is great, and everything is done well. It'as a very clean place."

"I went to Granite Ledges of Concord. It was comparable to the other place I went to. It looked more like a ski lodge from the outside, which was kind of cool looking. The inside was beautiful, it was clean. The residents were out and about sitting comfortably in their chairs, because it wasn't suppertime that night. She was very informative about her facility, very nice, and very friendly. They had a couple of different dining areas and it was like restaurant style. That's beautiful. They had a TV room. I think most of the residents were watching a movie. They had the salon. They had a little library, a sitting room type library, which was very nice."

"My tour of Ledgewood Bay Assisted Living was fantastic. The people I encountered were phenomenal. The neighborhood and the facility itself were unbelievable and very well maintained, visually pleasing, and very ecstatically pleasing. I very much enjoyed that facility and would love to be able to put my parents there, but unfortunately, it's out of the price range. I toured a single-bedroom apartment. They come in and do the cleaning, offer laundry, and have three meals a day and a calendar of activities. There's a lot of options. Transportation to appointments and such is also provided, and they have medical on- premises, which is a great feature. The staff who gave the tour was great. She even gave me resources, which was awesome on her part."

"I have chosen Kirkwood Corners of Lee for respite care for mom. It's not a permanent move-in; she will be there for thirty days. It's a nice, small community, and it's a very clean building. I found that the people who work there are very easy to work with and accommodating. It was a very pleasant place. It's a nice-sized room, and it's certainly not small. It's nice, and it came with the furnishings that were needed: a bed, a chair, and a dresser. The only thing I would find fault with -- and it's not their fault -- is the way the building is arranged. The rooms don't have a private bathroom, but there are certainly many bathrooms available. In the summer, they have outside activities. They also do some bus trips. It seemed like a good level of activities for the type of people they were dealing with. I saw a couple of community rooms. I did not see anything that has to do with exercise, like a pool or anything. This is totally memory care, so I don't believe they had that, but they certainly had several gathering places. They had many books available, almost like a library. They had TVs and movies. They definitely had activities. There's a code that is published at the door. You have to push the code to get in and out, so it's not a locked facility, but if you do not push the code, an alarm goes off, so they are alerted if someone just tries to go out. It's a very pleasant place and in thirty years, I wouldn't mind being there myself."

"I went to look at Meredith Bay Colony Club. The administrator was really good. The location is great. The facility was nice. It felt very homey and welcoming. They were doing a really good job in regards to precautions with COVID. They required us to wear masks."