Memory Care Communities in Amarillo, TX

"My father has moved into The Cottages at Quail Creek. I saw five different communities, but he gets the best healthcare treatment for his condition at this facility. He is in hospice, too, so the hospice people are going into that community to treat him. He's in a shared room and it's a very nice and clean room. He has two closets and two beds, probably about the size of a normal bedroom that two boys would share growing up. I've been there whenever they've eaten, and the food looks good. They have their people come in and cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There are a couple of snacks during the day, so there's plenty of food for them. The staff seems like they care. They have an activities director that comes in Monday through Friday. The activities are more about keeping their motor skills going, their hand-eye coordination, their feet moving, and things like that. They're not outside playing kickball or dodgeball or anything, but they're in the little living common areas, hitting a balloon back and forth or playing bingo and things like that. It's nice and clean all the time. There's always a nurse on duty, so that helps. It's very good value for the money."

"I toured Bristol Park Amarillo. It was OK. It was nice, and this had to do with the location of the two rooms available. My father has a window that faces the west, and the sun shines in on him, and that means a lot to him. I was trying to find a room that would have a west window. The room they showed was like a studio."

"Brookdale Sleepy Hollow was nice, but it was really expensive. The facility was good and clean. The staff was good. She showed me everything I needed to see and everything I wanted to see."

"I toured BeeHive Homes of Amarillo. It's not a big facility. The unit was a nice, good-sized room with a little kitchen area with no stove and a nice bathroom. It was very stylish and fresh. When you come in the door, you come into a big open room that has a sitting area to the left with the offices of the employees around there. Then to the right was a big open kitchen that had a half wall around it, and it was all open, and the people that were cooking for them were in there. It was a big kitchen. To the right of the kitchen was a big dining area with tables that looked like what you have in your home. My daughter and I were looking for my husband, and we were concerned that for a memory care person that needed what he needed, he would call for a lot of help, and we didn't think there were enough on-hand employees there to attend him. We just thought that he would drive them crazy. We just thought for a memory care patient, the attending staff at night, especially that it would be hard on them and hard for him. What we saw when we were there, we did not think was enough for his memory care needs. I like the staff though. One gentleman tried his best to give me a discount on the price of the room. He tried to help me out financially. They came down a little bit, but they couldn't come down enough for me. But they tried."

"We toured, and everything just seemed like they knew what they were doing. It was professional. It was activity driven, but still personal to each individual person. The staff was very friendly and very helpful. Everything was great."

"I toured The Legacy at Town Square. They had a media room, a library area, and up on the second floor, a gathering area, so that the residents on that floor would not have to go downstairs. It had a snack area, too. They had their own floor for a meeting area to sit and visit with other patients. The rooms were very nice and very stylish. They were little suites. There was a small area for probably two chairs and a queen size bed, and then a little kitchen area. No stove. Just an icebox, a cabinet area, and a bath. They also had a physical therapy area with machines and whatever they could do with a specific PT. The dining room was set up with tables and it was open. I saw the living area, the entrance area, and the kitchen-dining area. It appealed to me. The staff was very courteous."