Senior Living in Pender County, NC

"I toured Peak Resources Wilmington. The admissions coordinator was very informative, knowledgeable, and helpful. I found the place to be clean and well-organized. It is one of the few places in the area with a Hoyer lift, which is a big deal. They have a salon and an activities room."

"We loved Inspire Brunswick Forest. The staff was fantastic. Everything is beautiful. The whole setup goes around the pool. The rooms they showed us were clean. It has good engagement for the patients there. There's even a room with coffee. It's lovely."

"I toured Spring Arbor of Wilmington. It's a nice community. I'm just not ready yet. The rooms were nice. The dining room was large, and lunch was good. The staff who gave the tour was excellent. They had a beauty salon, an exercise room, and a cafeteria. It was clean. The residents were good. They were dressed fine, and mealtimes seemed popular. They have a gym and transportation."

"Arbor Landing at Compass Pointe was a beautiful and brand-new facility. They have a very large apartment. It's very impressive. The dining area was substantial and it felt like an upscale hotel. I had nothing negative to say about it. It's just the price. It was out of our budget. Libby was the one that gave us the tour and she was great. She knew all the residents' names as they passed by. They were very social and very kind."

"My husband is at The Laurels of Pender. It is close by. It's the only one in Burgaw, really. He's had several operations on his leg. His last one didn't take that well and I cannot wait on him at home. He also has to go dialysis three times a week, and I cannot get him in a car and get him on places. The staff are friendly, nice, and most of them do their job. Sometimes you have one or two that don't, but most of them do their job. The food is not too good. It is just plain old hospital food, and they don't have much to choose from. They need better food there. The rooms are pretty big and nice. The facility is pretty well, too. This is the closest one to home so that is why we picked it."

"My mother lives at Ashe Gardens, and I'm very pleased with the care she receives there. The administration is strong, and the staff as a whole is caring and makes sure that my mother is clean and well taken care of. I know there have been problems in the past with staff and leadership, but right now, it's a great place for my mother and as far as I can tell, for all of the residents there. "

"This facility was wonderful! I came to visit a friend before COVID happened and i was amazed at the building. The facility looked wonderful and clean and was odor free. As soon as i walked in the building staff stopped and greeted me and asked me if i needed any help. Several times while i was visiting my friend, staff members stopped and interacted with her. I would put my family member in this building which is not something i would usually say about a facility. Many residents were also participating in activities keeping them very involved and active."

"Woodbury Wellness Center, Inc. was very nice inside. It was one of the nicest I've seen inside. It's very nicely furnished and appointed. The admissions coordinator we met with was very informative, helpful, and very straightforward, which was nice. The staff that we encountered was very friendly and the way they interacted with the guests was nice, so that was nice to see. They had a salon and an activities center. It felt very clean, and it smelled good. It's probably within 10 miles of a hospital."

"I am staying at North Chase Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. The nurses are very personable and caring. They serve three meals a day, but you have no choice. You have no option. They just serve you what they want to, and that's not good. The food that I eat is good. I had gastric bypass surgery years ago, and I'm supposed to eat three small meals a day in between my other meals. I haven't yet been able to get the kitchen to understand that. They have been sending me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on my lunch and dinner tray every day for the 13 days I've been here so far. I'm sick of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and I keep asking them to talk to me, and everybody says I can't do anything about the kitchen. You'll have to talk to the administrator. I've asked a dozen times to talk to the administrator, and I don't get any response. I've only had one bath since I've been here. The aide will not come and give me a bath. She will not change my bed. She doesn't even like to enter the bedside commode. I'm not able to walk. I cannot walk on my feet. I had surgery on my foot. So, I need more help than what I'm getting. That's the problem. It's supposed to be skilled nursing, but I'm supposed to be a step down from the hospital and get the care I need to heal. If you can't put your feet on the floor, you need help, and you push the bell, and they're not coming into my room, and the least amount of time is 30 minutes. The nurses are great, but the aide is useless. I've seen roaches crawling on my floor. The walls need painting, it's dingy and depressing. I just stay in my room, and I read and watch movies on my computer. The activities director is very nice and tries to get me to come out and do things, but we also have active COVID here."

"My mother was in a nursing home at North Chase (formerly Britthaven of Northchase) in Wilmington just a month ago. She just got out. She was there for rehab, but I was not happy at all with the nursing home. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. She won't go back there. The physical therapy people were amazing, but the nursing home part of it was not. The rooms needed repairs. She had to get three different beds before she got one that worked. The walls needed to be painted and had lots of marks on them. A lot of the rooms didn't look very nice on the inside. The only reason she was there was for convenience to me. It was halfway between work and home for me. She was there for 100 days. She had therapy for hip replacement. I know they're short staffed. I'd go in there lots of days, and the food would be sitting on her table; she hadn't touched it. No one bothered to open it up or help her open it. She'd be laying in bed, and it would be laying on a table by her. Her light would be flashing when I got there, and she needed help (she needed changed or something). I'd be there 30 or 40 minutes before I could find somebody to even come in there and help her. That was many times I was there. I came every day at lunchtime to bring her food."

"I like the fact that The Davis Community is a little bit lower in price than the other places we looked at. They have a really beautiful facility, and my dad is happy there. I had a meal there, and it was very good. They served salad like romaine lettuce with tomatoes and carrots and a lot of vegetables in it, and they served chicken meatloaf, and that was very good. They have a lot of crafting-type activities. They have bingo a lot. They have entertainment come in. My dad was telling me all about a man who came in and played the guitar and sang and stuff and how enjoyable it was. When we went there at the very beginning we were looking, it was near Christmas time, and they were having Christmas parties and stuff and it was very nice. The staff members there are wonderful."

"I think The Davis Community is very organized. My mom is in their memory care, and from what I can tell, the facility seems to be very, very organized, and very good. I have no complaints. They have an activity every day whether it's an Easter egg hunt, or they had a singer come in and they sang songs."

"I don't think there was anything I liked about Champions Assisted Living. It was empty and dreary. There was nobody anywhere. It was a hodgepodge. There were three floors, but you couldn't get to the third floor unless you went down to the second floor and take another elevator up. It's too confusing for me, but I think part of it is because it's under construction and we also had a very new tour guide, which was horrible. He didn't know how to cater to our needs or our wants. We went here, there, and everywhere. When we went in there, everybody was very happy, very nice, and very helpful. We only waited a few minutes, but the lady that gave us the tour was not well-versed at all. We had friends there before and my father was in the other part of it one time and the food was quite good. I didn't get to see everything, but if you go online and look at it, it has everything you want, that's why I called it the Taj Mahal. The independent living is probably one of the best in this area and it's just rated very high. It was very expensive, but I was very disappointed with it. The facility itself was nice, but it's all over the place and I didn't like that. I don't have Alzheimer's yet and I have a hard time understanding it. I don't like the assisted living facility at all. A lot of it was under construction. It was bad timing on our side, too."

"Content: My husband and I moved here 3 years ago. We were first drawn to the gorgeous landscaping (ponds, trees, flowering bushes,) 3 miles of walking opportunities, diverse housing options (which makes it look like a village, not a campus). The staff are caring, friendly, helpful and just nice, likable people who want to serve and help us in any way they can. We have met so many interesting, friendly, and helpful people who are now our friends and neighbors. No one should be bored here - there are activities that challenge mind and body, including exercise classes at 8 a.m.! Followed by aqua exercises! We love not having to shop much for food, fix the food, clean up after the food! The continental breakfast and one delicious meal provided each day more than satisfies our taste buds, supplemented by a small plate of something from the refrigerator. I will admit that it was challenging to downsize from a very large home to 1450 sq. ft + wonderful, pretty private patio."