Chelsea Senior Living

The Chelsea community itself is very beautiful, it is always extremely clean and the staff are wonderful - that we have not had a problem with. However the quality of the care could be improved, with assisted living we think there should be more assistance - especially for the cost and what they charge. There just needs to be more attention to detail and awareness regarding our loved ones care

This was old and dated. It felt depressing. The community was renovated from a Howard Johnson to an assisted living community. They had very old and dated décor.

This community was not as warm and homey, or welcoming as what I was looking for. It was up to date and brand new it just did not have that feeling to it. The tour was very good at this community.

Atria at New City is a beautiful, brand new facility that is everything a family could hope for. The attention to detail for residents shows a level of care that is obvious. However, make sure you ask for details about the level of medical care they will provide before you put down a deposit. We had put our deposit down and had begun to move furniture in to the apartment we thought we had secured for my father. It wasn’t until a week before he was supposed to move in, that Atria told us that he had medication and medical “red flags “they were concerned about. We were devastated to find out yesterday he would not be accepted into their facility. We had to remove furniture we had delivered and I needed to frantically find a new facility for my father. Atria is a “social model” that has specific guidelines we were unaware of for medical needs. Make sure you know in detail what the tier package you are buying into offers before you put a deposit down and get your hopes up.

I toured at Somerset Gardens, and I really liked the community overall. [Removed] was the sweetest lady, and the community was lovely. My only issue was that they removed the carpeting in the community because of spills, accidents, etc., and now the place lacks a bit of the homey, comfortable feel I think it would have otherwise. As a result, it is left looking a little institutional.

Things went well on our tour here, the staff were friendly and did a very good job showing us around the community and answering all our questions. My mom was only looking to come to the day care for a couple days a week for now so we felt it wasn't quite the fit for her.

This comes in second, not as convenient as [facility name], but like the facilities and rooms.

My mother was not accepted for their facility (memory care/assisted living) based on their assessment: reasons of risk/fall (she’s wheelchair bound - can’t stand or walk without assistance) safety awareness/level of confusion/impairing judgment. My mom currently has brain syndrome after suffering a fractured spine and broken hip while recovery from her FS and hospitalization, anesthesia, pain, suffering and past history of strokes. Medicare only allows 30 minutes of PT 6 days a week (not enough time at alll for somone who requires a higher level of therapy) she’s been confined to a wheelchair. I was extremely baffled by their decision, though that’s their policy. My visit was lengthy and transparent of her care.

We did not have a good experience with this community at all. It seemed like a nice enough place when we were looking into care options, but within a few hours of my loved one arriving he was left alone and allowed to fall twice. Based on this experience we could not recommend this place to anyone.

BEWARE My mother began in independent living and shortly thereafter went down to Enriched Housing on the 2nd floor. I came to learn that the head of the unit, [name removed] with the backing of the administration, pushes residents out of the unit because there are not enough rooms for those coming in from independent living. [Name removed], et al, forces the residents to the memory unit or the nursing home. Some families took their resident out of the Amsterdam, some acquiesced and I got a lawyer who successfully kept her in the unit. At that point, her room was rarely cleaned. [Name removed] would not allow the staff to talk to me or they would be reprimanded, or worse. They had my mother examined by their own doctor and when he agreed with me that the Enriched unit was appropriate, [name removed] and a social worker tried, unsuccessfully, to have him retract his assessment. Also, the food is poor: sugary drinks land low quality desserts.

This is a rating for the assisted living floor. They do not know how to care for dementia patients. They sent my mother to the hospital in an ambulance every week during her three week stay here - for regular dementia behavior. After the 3rd time, she was so overmedicated and the hospital had to keep her for a week to regulate her medication. Somerset Gardens gave us no choice but to pay their gigantic fee for a 24 hour private aide, because she could not come home. As far as value, we signed up with a special deal, but overall the monthly fee seemed reasonable. A good value compared to private pay.

I moved my mom. I was not happy. I would give everything a 1. The overall experience was not good. Aides kept my mom's room a mess. Mom was in memory care and confined to a wheel chair. All aides were unfriendly and didn't care about my mom as a person. For several months before we left they only had one person in charge of memory care and she tried her best, but it was impossible for her to do everything. Aides didn't care about my mom. They over fed her and mom gained 40 lbs while in there care. Activity directors cared more about my mom than the aide's, but the activities were basically bingo and coloring. Costs were better than other places, but you get what you pay for and it wasn't good. The director presented herself as caring, and would listen to me complain, but was not able to maintain control over her very lazy staff.

Something this community could work on to improve the experience is simple - do not lie. We would not recommend this community to other families based on the experience we have had with Atria New City

I would not recommend Somerset Gardens to anyone. The place is a dump. I only had my dad there for a few months because the place was so gross. They promised the world and delivered nothing. Filthy.

Only apply for memory care if your loved one with dementia is quiet or timid. They are unequipped and unwilling to care for other non-aggressive manifestations of dementia (some inappropriateness). Lack of transparency with family. They left us in the lurch a few days before my husband's planned discharge from rehab. After we had put down a deposit (refundable), picked out the room and furnishings and had packed up his things at home. They had assessed him 3 weeks earlier and had concerns they never shared with us. We were totally blindsided.

This place sucks It's horrible.

There is no way I would ever send a loved one to The Chelsea at Greenburgh. They seemed abrasive and uptight.

My family had a terrible experience in the Maple Point Dementia Unit. They sold a false set of goods and didn’t properly care for our Mother. Not only were mistakes made with her health care, but even more so, her emotional care was nil. They did not seem properly trained to deal with the many things that come along with Alzheimer’s

Looked like it was a converted hotel because it is. Very friendly, but place had a feeking of being old. SLight odor as we walked around. Looked at a room and walked right into a spider web face high! Not worth another look

I have had a terrible experience at the Amsterdam it is dirty bugs areound the coffee an drinking fountains the bathrooms smell like [Removed] The aids are busy on there cell phones they play games an talk to each other half the time when the phone rings at the nursing desk they don't pick it up a man was walking in the hallway with his pants all wet from urine when the health dept came everyone was taken in an spoken to to be on there game the vacuums came out the rug shampooed mmmm.....this place is not worth 7 to 12 an up a month grand that is the staff is not friendly nor would waste there time with you unless u came in with a bag of money they don't treat u nice at all I was there few months ago with my dad to look at apts in enriched housing I went back a few times to be there incognito no activities the residents don't do nothing but sleep one woman was always complaining for almost an hour when I was there she seemed very nasty one man was also complaining to a staff member being nasty it was a mess would never put my dad [Removed] the food came up in a box. Cart like something u get at the airport no way for that kind of money I'll keep my dad home. Safe an sound a real [removed] place with smells and [Removed] people can't even understand what they are saying. Terrible smelly institution not a good experience. The aides sit around like servents not treated like people would not recommend ..going to shop around for others or keep dad home. You get no stars from me. Uggggg.