Mayberry Gardens, Grand Prairie

Betty

Mayberry Gardens is fairly new. It's only two and a half years old and seems like you get a lot for the money. It's very reasonable. The rooms were very nice with nice furniture. They're very roomy and the one we're getting has a little kitchenette with a little refrigerator. The man who gave us the tour was very nice and answered all of our questions. Maybe he wasn't as warm as the other people from the other places we toured, but he did well. They just hardly have any activities for now. He said a lot of it was due to COVID. They have a lot more group activities normally, but the individual home activities are at a minimum.

Rhonda

My mother-in-law is in Mayberry Gardens in Grand Prairie. She's in their assisted living. It's pretty good. I've had a couple of little issues, but I think they've been resolved. Everybody there is very kind and friendly. The community layout is beautiful. They can improve on, maybe, the employees paying a little more attention to the residents. 90% of the staff that I have come in contact with are very kind, attentive, eager to make things comfortable and right. We have not eaten there yet, but my mother-in-law likes the food. She eats everything and that's not normal for her. At home, the food that I know she loves, she didn't always eat. She liked to eat out mostly. As far as I know, she's eating all the food there. What I've seen from their menu and everything is really good too. The ladies there gather and do puzzles and I think they've done bingo. They do some things for the community on the weekend too, for the residents' families to come but I haven't attended and we haven't been there long enough for any of that. I've had a couple of issues. I've had to go to the director and let them know that my mother-in-law had been there for about 3 weeks and her room hadn't been cleaned at all. I had to go and bring that up to the director because the house manager, I have a little issue with her because I don't think she's attentive. At least in my mother-in-law's case, she was not attentive to her. I asked her if she could turn on my mother-in-law's TV because she doesn't remember how to use the remote. I asked her if she could turn the TV on for her in the morning. Not that she has to go out of her way, but just when she takes my mother on morning meds or when she goes and gets her for breakfast or something. She told me that she would but then she has not been doing it. So, she is the one employee that I have a problem with, so far.

Debbie

Mayberry Gardens is a very different kind of assisted living community in which the residents are gathered into individual houses where there's a maximum of 15 residents in each house. Each house has like a large living area, a very large professional kitchen, kind of in an open concept way where you would find it in an actual home. There's a small dining area attached just the way you would find in an actual house, except that it was very large, big front porch with rocking chairs, and then 15 bedrooms with attached bathrooms, and I enjoyed it there. Dad did not end up choosing to go there because he didn't want to be trapped in a building with 15 other residents in case he didn't like them; he wanted more people to choose from. I understood that, being a man, because he wanted there to be a selection of men, and of course, many of these communities are populated by women. But I appreciated this place, particularly as his own capabilities declined. We looked back at this place again because everything was so close and they did activities right there in the house, they took meals right there in the house, and the caregivers would know him. This is a campus that has five or six houses, and each house was dedicated to different levels of care, like there would be a memory care house in an assisted living care house, and there were several of each. It was just a very personal situation, I thought, where dinner would be cooked fresh and personally, and served right up there at the table, and like a home. So I think it would be very valuable for many, many seniors, and I'll look at it again when my own parents are ready. The activities are mostly brought into the houses, like if they were going to play bingo, they play it in each house. Now, they do have an activity room that is centrally located. It does involve going outside to get to, which many seniors don't want to do, because it's too hot or too cold or whatever, but they do have an activity room where they can have larger events, they can show movies, or have entertainment. It's in a central building between all of the houses, but one thing I liked about it is that during COVID they were able to continue many things that some of the larger communities weren't able to do, because they had too many residents to gather them, and they had a house with only 12 or 14 residents, and at any given time they were able to spread people out and continue doing activities, which I think would have been super. The whole place is owned by a family, and one member of that family runs this location, and he personally gave me the tour, spent time, and gave me his cell phone number. I just talked to him yesterday. He's very, very connected to family, and felt very involved in the process of trying to create a plan of care. I told you that Dad rejected this place, and he did initially, but then his own capabilities declined. We took a second look at this place and I went back to them and said, "OK, here's the situation now. What can we work out?" And they were incredibly accommodating, even allowing me to consider putting him there on hospice. We didn't end up doing that. He spiraled downhill too quickly, but we were considering it, and they were willing to talk about it, and work with me on that kind of unusual arrangement. I enjoyed that.

Andra

The people at Mayberry Gardens Assisted Living and Memory Care Homes in Grand Prairie are cordial and friendly. The place is bright and clean. I was very glad I chose to place my sister there. My sister was a past resident in the assisted living and I'm pleased with their care. Her room was very spacious and kept clean. The room was very spacious and well-kept. They were a bit understaffed at the time I was there but based upon the staff available, they did respond as quickly as possible.

Pam

I really, really liked Mayberry Gardens. It was the first place I toured. The only negative was that I think the rooms were a little smaller, but it was brand new, fresh, and clean. Because it was a newer place, I think it had a few less amenities than the other places, but that's just because they're brand new. I only met the one lady, and she was very nice. It was fabulous.

Sharon

Mayberry Gardens was a nice facility with on-site nurses. If we could have afforded something like that, it would have been fine, but my mother kept on saying that she wanted more independent living instead of assisted living. The facility was immaculate with the upkeep of the outside. The setup was beautiful. They had a little sitting area outside, plants, and beautiful landscapes. The staff was very knowledgeable about everything that was going on about the facility. She talked to us through everything about the rooms and its sizes. The only thing was she just couldn't give us a price. I think I ended up talking about it with somebody else. Seemed like the nurses and the staff were very helpful too. I didn't know where to go, and they told me, "Wait a minute, we're going in. Will let them know that you're here."