Memory Care Communities in Oak Ridge, TN

"Our experience here was very good. The staff was great and provdie a lot of activities. They have a swimming pool and patios around the facility. "

"I am now living here, and I found them over the Internet. I chose this facility because they had the room I wanted and they allowed my pet. The facility is good. Their food is mediocre. None of them are really great, but it's all right. The people who work here are very excellent, and they give me good service. "

"I am in here. Everything is very nice and very good. I think it is homey. The staff is very good, and they are accommodating. They do anything I ask. I have a very nice room, and it has everything I need. It has a bedroom, a bathroom, a microwave, and a refrigerator. They have very nice activities."

"My mother has moved into Deane Hill Place. It's a small community. It has about six buildings and it has several levels of care. If they happen to progress in their illness, they can move them into different levels of care as needed when they get older. And the amenities are very nice. They have good food and wonderful staff that are very friendly and very helpful to the residents that live there. They have their own rooms, and they bring their own furniture, and that makes it feel more like home. They have several different options for rooms. My mother has a studio. They have some exercise activities that they can do. They have walks that they do. They take them out for shopping from time to time. They have get-togethers like luaus and barbecues. They do all sorts of things to keep them busy and happy. There are courtyards in each of the buildings. There's also a beauty salon in each of the buildings. There are different libraries in each of the buildings as well. "

"I toured StoryPoint Knoxville West and I thought that they were expensive but everybody was so accommodating. I talked to everybody including some residents, and they loved the place. It was a beautiful setting, and everybody was nice. I liked it. The staff members were very helpful and just very caring. They had something for everybody, they brought people together and they have some activities you could go to, and they also had a bus to go to some special outings."

"I have visited the community and I loved It. It was very clean and the staff cares and appears to be hard working "

"We were very impressed with Northshore Heights - Knoxville. You feel like you're going into a resort hotel because it had a lot of seating outside. It had the look of a resort hotel both in the front when you went in and in the back where they had a very nice seating area. The back faces up a hill, and it's on a ridge. It was nicely laid out. It was very comfortable because when you go in the front, there were seating areas out there where people can just hang out. In the back, they had the same thing with a patio area, and it was very comfortable. The dining room had a very high ceiling. It had a kind of a lodge feel to it. The apartment units were all nice. The building was clean, looked fairly new, and there was a lot of good stuff to it. They didn't try to be too fine on all extras. It wasn't complicated like some places where they have like five different levels. It was a simple model. It makes it more predictable. I liked that we didn't have to try to guess as much on which level my sister-in-law would be. It was a nice facility. It was wheelchair friendly, but you didn't feel like it was a hospital or anything. It had that comfortable feel to it. They had a little bit of a basic menu. It was adequate but it was the kind that you might get bored if that's all you ate. We only talked to the salesperson. She took us around, and she was very pleasant, but it seemed like when you run into the people there, they seemed to be friendly. I didn't see anything negative there. She showed us quite a few units of the different types they had. It was pretty nice. They even had a little land for expansion there."

"It was clean and neat. The staff was engaging towards the residents. Everyone looked well dressed and happy. It was an older building, but it was nice. The lady that gave the tour was like an open book. She was very forthcoming. I saw the meals and they smelled wonderful. They looked appetizing and well-prepared."

"Trinity Hills of Knoxville was OK. Caroline, the girl who took us on the tour, was fantastic, knowledgeable, helpful, and very friendly. She was great. The rooms were a little more basic and plain."

"My father is at Morning Pointe of Hardin Valley. He went to the memory care. It's been excellent. They have very caring people, and so far we are very pleased. It's an excellent facility. It's brand new, so it's very nice. It's very clean. They have a salon, physical therapy, and OT. They have everything that he needed. The activities are very good. They keep him out and about and busy all the time. The value for money is very good."

"NHC has been a terrific place for my family over the last year. My mother has been in and out of the rehabilitation side now 4 times. The nursing staff has been inconsistent at times. Some of the CNAs care more than others. But the food is unbelievable! We have brought our whole family to eat here because it is better than many of the local restaurants and for the price point it cannot be beat! One young man in particular, I believe his name was Major, we met during my mother's last stay, and he was so amazing! He was so knowledgable and kind! We always tried to find him when we ate in the dining room. Overall amazing place! Thank you NHC for all the hard work and loving care you provide your customers! "

"When my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in early 2010, she moved in with my mother. Unfortunately, she declined rapidly. Soon, the burden of bathing her, feeding her and taking care of her was too much. We found Arbor Terrace at the recommendation of one of her doctors. Although this home offers assisted living services, they also specialize in helping patients with memory issues. She entered the home in late 2010. Since that time, we have become quite close to some of the staff members. They take excellent care of my grandmother. I feel comfortable knowing she is there. We visit with her at least once a week. The rooms are nice, and she shares a room with another woman. The food is actually really great, and my grandmother still gets to garden from time to time. I would recommend this nursing home. I can't speak for the assisted living part of the facility, but they take excellent care of the patients with degenerative memory issues. "

"My mother was lovingly cared for by the Memory Care staff. We could not have asked for better care. The rooms are very adequate for a variety of care needs. The staff worked diligently to keep her comfortable, even making custom milkshakes when she didn’t want to eat."

"I moved my mother to this wonderful facility over a year ago after several months in another Knoxville assisted living. Courtyards on Inskip was always my first choice, but they didn't have an opening when I first moved my mom from her home. You could not find a better place anywhere; I am convinced of that. I visited every facility in town numerous times, and some in other cities, to be sure I was choosing the best place. The Courtyards is just different in all the ways that matter. First of all, you feel at home immediately upon entering the facility. The facility is airy and has lots of windows; the individual resident rooms are larger than anywhere else, with nice windows and view, beautiful bathroom and large closets. The residents enjoy a beautiful backyard setting with gazebo and seating, fountain, and garden area. And as the director, Cindy W, likes to say, you feel just as good when you leave at the end of your visit as you do when you arrive. I sleep well at night knowing my mother has this kind of caring environment. The employees are simply amazing, from the director to the activities director, to the wonderful nurses, to the nursing assistants, cooks and cleaning personnel who all help with the caregiving as well. Everyone there is a caregiver at heart and they function as such. They go WAY above and beyond the call of duty. They are super busy all the time but they treat you and your parent as though you are the most important people in the world. The food is wonderful and my mother, who had lost weight in her first assisted living, gained back the weight and then some to become much stronger. This was one of my main concerns. Everyone at the Courtyards is family, not only to my mother, but to me as well. The staff is so well trained, and it is obvious they have ongoing training and are well versed in all aspects of cognitive impairment and decline. They have helped me so much and guided me along the journey of my mother's memory decline. You can feel pretty alone without this kind of help and guidance. The cost is lower than any of the other facilities I would have considered for my mom, and they don't hide any fees like the others. What you see is what you get. The Courtyards is simply head and shoulders above any other place. I pat myself on the back daily for finding it and moving my mother when I had the chance. This is where I plan to go when my time comes!! (Sometimes when I see the menus and smell the food I'm ready to move in now.) "