The Best Senior Living Communities in Simpsonville, SC

"I toured Haywood Estates by Barclay House. It's very clean and very nice. The people were also very pleasant, but the mean age was a little bit high for me. The staff was nice. The food was very good. They have a library. In the gym, there was nobody in there, but the equipment looked like it operated and it was clean. Their dining room was very clean. It didn't smell like a community dining room. It was all very pleasant."

"Oaks at Chanticleer is exclusively memory care. I was about ready to move in myself based on just how impressed I was with the facilities and with the things they do. They look good. The marketing director spoke to the head nurse and said, 'This is our nurse.' He introduced me and my sister. They have an ice cream shop there. The appearance and facilities looked like they were first-rate to me. There is a good variety of things for the residents to do. I was impressed with the place."

"My mother will be moving into Kauhale Pettigru. I liked the location. It's convenient to my hometown and for all my siblings to get to. I liked the setting. It's in Downtown Greenville, so there are lots of trees and pretty outdoors. I liked that it's a smaller community. There are 20 people in memory care. It would be more conducive to the staff being more attentive. They're not overloaded. I had a pleasant experience. I liked the director who showed me around. She's very nice, very knowledgeable, and she knows her stuff. It was very clean. They had a patio and nice outdoor spaces. They had one that had a grill setup and an outdoor picnic area. They had another one that was sort of like a walking trail that just looped around the back. It was really nice."

"We toured Waterstone on Augusta. What I liked about it was, number one, it was a newer facility. Number two, the care that we saw exhibited there seemed excellent. The people there were very accommodating. The facility itself was excellent, very clean and sanitary. There were lots of activities for the senior adults to get involved in, and the people there were just extraordinary."

"We've already found Brookdale Brushy Creek and got my in-laws there. I like the overall layout. It is very open and airy. It doesn't feel cramped. This place is very clean and it smells like flowers. They have flowers everywhere and small trees - real trees, not fake trees. They have all sorts of different programs going on. People are learning to dance and they are getting people moving around. The staff is extremely helpful and extremely knowledgeable. While we were there, another patient went into some sort of medical issue, and they were Johnny on the spot. Several people came at once providing assistance, getting an ambulance to take him to the hospital, and notifying his family. It just filled me with confidence that they are taking their jobs very seriously. The place is extremely clean. There is no stuff scattered everywhere. They bring the residents out to play games, like bingo. One group of people was playing Monopoly while we were there. There were a couple of other gentlemen who were wheelchair-bound and we saw them outside in the courtyard shooting basketball hoops. There were only 3 of them, but there was a male nurse out there watching them. If the ball got away, the nurse would run and get it and bring it back, and they would shoot the ball again."

"I'm going to The Residences of Greer. I gave them a deposit to hold my room. It was one of the best. Everybody was friendly. They were very nice. I went over today to pick out a room. I had lunch there, and the lunch was very good. The people were very cordial. I spoke to several of the people in the place while I was having lunch, and every one of them said, 'You're going to love it here.' When I picked out my room, there was still some stuff that had not been moved yet, like there was one dresser, which I'm going to need. I asked if that dresser was for sale or if I could purchase it, and they said, 'No, not this one, but we do have one down the hall that we can donate to the room.' It turned out to be nicer than the one they had in the room. It also looked quite new, so I thought that it was really nice. They're very helpful and very pleasant. I also met the director, who sat down with us. When I was there today, he had on his work clothes, and I said, 'What are you doing?' He said, 'Oh, I'm doing a little hard work today.' I enjoyed the meal very much. There's nothing I can complain about the place. It's very good. I had an aide with me, and she said the food was good, too."

"I liked Brookstone Terrace of Woodruff. It was nice and clean. Everybody seemed happy. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly and it looked like they cared for their residents. The guy told me they just finished doing some renovations. Everything on the inside looked great. They had a patio."

"I liked everything about Oakview Park. I didn't have anything negative to say. It was very clean. The members there were very helpful and friendly. The food was delicious. They had very spacious rooms, and I liked the vicinity to the common area. They're easy access, and they have well-laid-out living spaces."

"My mother has moved into Manning Square. After comparing it with everything else I've seen, it was heads above the other places. The staff seems to be very good and very helpful. And they're all very pleasant to be around. Their food is good, too. They have activities like bingo, taking them out on shopping trips, and exercise classes. The atmosphere is friendly. The layout is adequate."

"I'm considering Viva Senior Living at Easley for my sister if everything goes well. Everybody I've talked to seemed real nice and helpful in explaining things. I've had family members there before and everything was OK."

"Spring Park was excellent. The location of that is just super. The trees were all the way around it. It was gorgeous. The facility was beautiful. The people were super nice. I couldn't say anything negative about them. They were equally nice as the other place; however, it was $1700 more, which is a big difference. The surrounding area was drop-dead gorgeous. It was secluded. You couldn't see anything but nature. It was a beautiful setting. The staff members were wonderful, too. I tried their meal, and it was unbeatable. When I left there, I thought it was the place I was going to go to. I sat with three other gentlemen who lived there, and I said, 'This meal is superb,' and they said every meal is just like it. There was nothing about the place that you wouldn't love, only the price."

"I toured The Willows of Easley. My sister-in-law was going to reside there, but when they interviewed her and showed her the place, she was just too weak. They said they won't be able to take care of her. The employees were nice. I didn't taste the food, but I did see the menu. It looked delicious. Everything looked great. It's not an apartment. It's just one bedroom with one bath included. They were doing games and puzzles and things like that. They had a large area where people could gather and watch movies and stuff like that. They were very accommodating and very helpful."

"We toured Rosecrest Retirement Community. We really can't afford that one. It's a very nice facility, but it's very expensive. The staff we talked to were very nice and seemed very helpful, but I didn't have much to do with them. The facility looked very nice and very clean. The atmosphere was very nice. Everything was good."

"Bebe and her staff are really great working with the residents on both assisted living and memory care units. My father-in-law has flourished under their care. They’ve gotten him to do activities at the local YMCA I didn’t think he would ever do (water aerobics for starters)."