Memory Care Communities in Pasadena, TX

"My wife was in Discovery Village Clear Lake in assisted living. It's a nice place, the food was good, and the service was very good. It's just expensive. It's like $7000 a month. The room, the staff and everything were very good. It was like a small apartment, two-room, with a full bath and shower. They had entertainment at least a couple of times a week. They have a library and a little courtyard. It was very good."

"Brookdale Pearland is a beautiful facility. It's well maintained. It has activities. The cafeteria was nice. They seemed to have everything in place, but it was private pay. The staff answered all my questions. She took the time out of her day when I dropped in without an appointment. I also had people call me back for details that I had questions about. They have a nice little dining area, and they all seemed engaged. They had some activities, but I don't remember if they had a therapy room or anything like that."

"I was most impressed with The Shores at Clear Lake. I like the activities and its proximity to my home. I thought it was a very clean place. The staff was very friendly. They were very accommodating. That would have been the one I would have chosen for my husband if I had to put him in a facility. I looked at the menu and it looked very appetizing. I was very pleased with that one, and that would have been the one I chose. I talked to the sales representative. She was very friendly, very helpful, and followed up to check and make sure that things were going okay even though I said I didn't know if I was going to do it or not. I thought they were very helpful. The staff seemed pleasant with the people who were there. And the people there seemed very happy."

"We enjoyed Morada Friendswood. They showed us a room, then took us out and showed us where the cafeteria was. They walked us around, and we saw the people visiting. They told us they had an ice cream social. It was lovely, and it smelled good. If we can, we'd like to put my mother-in-law in there. They had a courtyard, a huge living room area, and an area for that ice cream social. The staff said that the ladies walk around on the inside and outside, and my mother-in-law likes to walk. It was a very friendly atmosphere. I only talked to two people, and they were lovely and very helpful."

"Spacious. Nicely done. Large closets."

"The Cottages at Clear Lake has been phenomenal. They've been wonderful with my husband, very caring, and very attentive, and everybody's involved. They're on top of where everybody is. The entire staff has just been incredible. I'm very happy that he was there. I wish he were going back, but he's not. It was a great experience for all of us. We all enjoyed everybody, the staff, and even the people who were in there. It was an extremely satisfying stay for him. When you walk in the front door, there's a big great room that has couches, and it's very well lit with lots of windows and a beautiful piano. One of the residents there is an amazing piano player. Then you kind of walk into a hallway to another great room where the fireplace is, where they do their daily activities, their church service on Sundays, games, bingo, and trivia. There are two wings, and each wing has its own kitchen and dining room table, and it's a family dining experience. They know where you are. If you're missing, they know you are missing. It's more of a community. The rooms are not huge, but they don't need to be. He's been in a shared room, and he's been the only one there. It has its own private bathroom, with a shower and everything, your storage area and your closet. Everybody has been so amazing. I haven't eaten there, but they have a chef on staff who has his own kitchen, and they do all the meal prep. He has sometimes eaten more than one plateful, so I think it's fine. They cater to whatever the needs of the resident are. They get snacks daily. I think that their activities and the things they do and how they incorporate everybody, and how they incorporate family members are good. They have fulfilled everything."

"We loved The Reserve at Pearland, but it was private pay, and there was no way we could cover that. Chloe was the sales director who toured us, and she is very likable. She has a great personality. The facility is beautiful and clean. The rooms are private little homes, like apartments, so they have little kitchen areas and everything. It's extremely nice, but it's all private pay. Chloe worked very hard to try to make us a good deal, but we couldn't cover it. It was very expensive. I would love to put my mother in that facility. They have a beautiful garden area with big magnolia trees."

"We visited the assisted living facility of Orchard Park at Victory Lakes for my mother. She will be moving into the facility. We really love it, that's why we chose it. It's a beautiful place, and the rooms and everything are very clean. There is no smell, and when you go in, it smells like you walked into a high-class hotel. It's very nice and everything's well-kept. They have an award-winning chef, too. The room we chose for her is very big, and she has a patio that opens up into a courtyard. They have a garden and bird feeders there. The nurse checked my mom out so we could see what level of care she's going to need. She's going to need a level one starting, but I think they have four or five levels. They have two wings, which are the memory wing and the assisted living wing. She's going into the assisted living wing. They are not the cheapest place, and we got the biggest room that they have. We could have gotten cheaper in some of the others we looked at, but we really liked the people and everything about this place. For one thing, it's close to all the facilities that my mother uses, like her doctor, and it's also close to my brother. Their lunchroom was very nice. They had arts and crafts, a spa where they could get their nails done or get a haircut. They take people on trips, too. They can go to Louisiana and go gambling if they want, and I think they even offer cruises for some of them. During our tour, everybody was super friendly and introduced themselves. Even the residents were nice and spoke to us, so it was very nice."

"The rooms are very nice and there are multiple floor plans to choose from. The staff is friendly. The center is always nice and clean. The dining area appears to be understaffed creating long wait times for residents. The portions also seem very small to me but the food is good."

"I toured for my grandma. The room was very clean. You pretty much have to kind of try to decorate it how she's at home so it won't be a drastic change. That's what they told me. The staff explained everything to me."

"My mom has moved into Creekside Alzheimer's Special Care Center. It's been really good. They're very engaged with their patients, and they keep them very active. That's the main thing; they've got activities going one right after the other. They've been really wonderful. They took pictures of my mother the first day she was there and sent it to me to let me know how she was doing. My brother even called to check on her this weekend, and they asked if he wanted to speak to her, so they put her on the phone. They just go over the top to help. It's nice and small. They don't have showers in the individual room, that way they don't have to worry as much about falls. They have a centralized bathing location for them, which I think is a wonderful idea. Their rooms are very nice. They have in the facility, in the middle, a solarium that's open to the sun. I've seen them out there with the patients doing exercises. They have a garden out there, where the patients can actually grow plants (like tomatoes and stuff like that). They've been awesome and really good. I haven't tried the food due to Covid. It's kind of hard; they are very careful with COVID. They have you put on one of their N95 masks when you go to visit; and you can't visit in a common area. It keeps you away from other patients just to protect them. It's very homey. When you walk in, you feel you feel like you're in someone's home. The entryway opens right up into like a living room, and there's a library off to one side. Then the offices are intermingled right alongside the patients' rooms. There are people that work there milling around everywhere. The offices are not hidden anywhere; they're all right out in the open. They have far surpassed where we moved her from; that's for sure. I have seen them do more activities with them in just a few short days of moving around, than we saw at the previous place. They were singing church hymns, and I've seen them out doing Chair Taichi outside. I've seen them dancing and just lots of activities. It's much less expensive to go there than where we previously were."

"The Village of Southampton was stunning. The views there are tremendous. You can see the whole city and can see downtown. The location is in the Rice Village at Rice University. There's a whole bunch of shops there. As long as we're able bodied, we can walk a mile or two. There's a lot of places that are within walking distance. That's the strong point of that one. The views are awesome. It's like 18 stories (or something like that), and all the apartments are just gorgeous. We've been there twice. They have exercise rooms, a swimming pool, and a lounge on the top floor. You could buy alcohol, snack foods, sandwiches, and stuff. The view is like drop dead gorgeous. There's an outside balcony that goes halfway around the building. It's stunning. The food was excellent. This is the best place in town."

"I toured Belmont Village West University. It was a very nice place, and it seemed to have a lot of great activities for the residents. It unfortunately was out of the range of distance that my client would want to go. It was a little too far. However, if I knew somebody in that area, I would tell them to look into it. The model room was very nice. It had a very nice large bathroom and shower area. It's just a bedroom-type setting. I didn't interact with a lot of the staff members, but everyone seemed very pleasant. Everyone greeted me, which makes a difference."

"The place that I like the best down here is the Tradition-Buffalo Speedway. I like all of their amenities. The staff who toured us were very welcoming, very informative, and very helpful. I tried their food, and it's excellent. There's an indoor swimming pool, a gymnasium, an indoor courtyard, and balconies if you're not on the ground floor. There are several facilities for eating, like a café and formal dining. There's also indoor parking. It's just wonderful."