Sunrise of Edgewater

Christine

Sunrise of Edgewater was well maintained and and had friendly staff. They were very helpful and answered all my questions. The dining area looked fine. They have exercise classes, memory games, and outdoor areas.

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Martha

My uncle has been at Sunrise of Edgewater for 5 months now. It is a lovely assisted living facility with very caring and pleasant staff. He's been able to put on enough weight that he's much healthier. The facility is located close to stores and restaurants that he can walk to. He has a single studio room with a very nice window, a little kitchenette, and a bathroom. There's a variety of rooms available. There are shared rooms, and then there are 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments. They have art classes, but my uncle doesn't participate in anything. There are living rooms, dining rooms, and a library. There's plenty to do there if you would like to participate.

Provider Response

Margaret

The staff at Sunrise of Edgewater seemed friendly. The salesperson was nice, answered all my questions, and gave me lots of information. The bottom line is it's a nice facility, but it's also like the other place, it's a lot of money. They're limiting the number of diners in the dining room, and the visitors are not allowed to eat with the residents because people can't be masked when they eat.

Kevin

Sunrise of Edgewater was very nice. It was definitely a nice apartment that my father could live in. It had all the amenities that we were interested in, as well as the attention and memory care that we were interested in. The staff was very informed. They definitely answered all my questions and they're very, very nice. I definitely like the staff and the programs that they had. It just was a bit outside of our price range. The rooms were decently sized and clean. They had enough room for a small living room and a bedroom. I had no complaints. The showers and baths were definitely suitable for him. If we could afford it, I definitely would love to have my father there. I saw meeting rooms, games, walking paths, and the dining facility. All of them were very, very nice, elegant, and completely suitable for him. There were people taking walks and playing checkers at a table, and most people were socially distancing and doing exercise. I saw a physical therapy session at the facility and a number of people were engaged. I also saw the staff playing a memory game with some of the patients. It's an excellent facility with responsive and informed staff. Unfortunately, it's an expensive option.

Anita

I moved into Sunrise of Edgewater and the two weeks of lockdown was extremely difficult for me. I did not have a working television, I was not allowed out of my room, and I had no contacts with other people except when they brought medication, so it was an extremely difficult time. They are very well staffed, and it appears to me they have as much staff as they need in order to conduct their business. They are currently serving a lunch meal in the dining room and other meals are provided in the rooms. Medications are brought to the rooms as well. There is very little activity of any kind, and there are a lot of decorations because of the holidays. They allow visiting, but they make an appointment. You can have a 20-minute visit twice a week inside the garden area. They try to repair anything that goes wrong as best as they can. I had a situation where my bathroom could not be made warm, so it was cold all the time until I could not shower. I asked repeatedly for someone to fix it, and they said they do not know what to do and what could be broken. Finally, I said, "I have not showered in 10 days and I'm going to shower in somebody else's room if you do not fix this." So, somebody went up to the roof, found something up there that was not working, and now it's fine, but it took too long a time. The other thing that troubled me is that I said, "My room is warm, why can't I get a little fan and put the fan on, so it would take some of the heat from my room and push it into the bathroom," and they gave me the most incredibly stupid response. They said, "No, you cannot have small electrical appliances in your bathroom," I said, "What about the electric shaver, what about the hair dryer? What are you talking about?" and they were kind of stumbling and did not know what to say about that. It was an unprepared kind of response. It made me very angry because it did not seem to matter to them that I was in a place where I could not shower. It was very, very stupid and petty and unfortunate. This year, they try quite hard to present a variety of pleasant food in good portion sizes, because they are very well aware that we don't do enough to eat more than we're being fed and that's good because in many other places, they feed you overly. The rooms are very beautiful. My room has five windows in an octagon shape, and it is just beautiful. I feel very safe. I feel that they really go such a long way to make sure that we are kept safe. I want to see how they handle the vaccination because they tend to be a little bit behind on things. They should be actively securing information to give vaccination now, so when our turn comes, we would be able to do it, but I don't see anything happening now. The staff tries very hard to be pleasant and caring. They have somewhat of a difficulty with managing some of our residents because residents at this age and under these circumstances tend to be difficult and very self-opportunistic. They have a hard time managing that, but they do the best they can. They try do some kind of physical workout, I think, but it is not seen with great pleasure, and I have not taken part of that. I find them extremely expensive.

Cassandra

Sunrise of Edgewater is a nicer facility than the other places I visited. They have really great caring staff, but they could not meet my needs. There is only one wing for dementia patients upstairs, and it's locked. It was designed for senior living. It's a beautiful facility, it has a charming atmosphere, and it's in a great location. They had a lot of activities for the residents.