Distinctive Living

Northern Jersey near NY border. Good prices. Worth a visit and more information. Got a call from a rep and he was very pleasant. It's an hour from the city. Is sending a brochure.

I toured the Chelsea while looking at options for my husband. I thought it was very nice, and I liked that they had a little snack and coffee area available at all times. They seemed short staffed to me though, and I didn’t feel they had enough care available.

This is a very nice community and the staff did a terrific job on our tour, they took their time they showed us all around and mom felt that the rooms were smaller than what she was looking for. They do offer a lot of amenities for the residents to choose from and we would suggest scheduling a tour to check this community out.

They really play up the place. It is very uplifting. The only issue is that they do not follow through on their complaints. The housekeeping could be better. My loved one went almost 2 weeks without anyone picking up his laundry.

Eric was great! Clean. Smells wonderful. Ron Rogers was very helpful discussing transitional stages. Day care might not be best to slowly start acclimating. new facility brightly painted walls. Beautiful double occupancy room.

Expensire rate and no transport offered. Limited hours and further driving distance. I was not offered tour.

Memory unit seemed a bit small. I did not see many support staff interacting with residents in the memory unit. No single rooms available at this time.

We had a good experience on our tour, the staff was very friendly, and it seemed like a nice community. I felt that maybe it is due for some renovations, it just looked a bit worn out, and didn't seem as clean as other locations we had visited.

The rooms didn't have a fridge or a microwave either. I didn't really care for them

The first thing I noticed when I was touring was that this location looked very dated. There was paint chipping off of the walls in places, which made me worry what the care would be like if maintenance was an issue. Also the residents seemed to be on the higher end of the care spectrum, and Mom needed a more active community.

The studio apt did not have a kitchenette-the one bedroom did. Food seemed good and the menu too. Again, I was looking for specific activities for my Mom and they were not a shoo in here.

If you have a loved one at Brooklyn Pointe and God forbid they should pass, don’t expect a card or a phone call from them. My mother lived there just short of a year. She passed in early November and I didn’t hear a word from them. No phone call, no email or card. Nice

Needs a little more caregiver supervision and oversight.

Beautiful new facility, but the care does not seem to be what we were promised. Little to no follow through with the majority of the care staff and nobody really seems to know what is going on with their residents. It is difficult and emotional enough to transition your loved one into assisted living, without the added stress of feeling that he/she is being neglected. This facility has all the bells and whistles, but I feel that the "sales team" did not give us realistic expectations for care. They have these great little bracelets that the residents wear with a door key and a call button. Unfortunately it takes the upwards of 25 minutes for anyone to respond to the call, which I find to be completely unacceptable.

I didn't like it at all. I didn't like the way the rooms were set up. There were no doors on the bathrooms because they couldn't get through them with the wheelchairs. I didn't find the woman that I spoke with to be very friendly and it turned me off.

They are very understaffed. Hard to get answers to questions or requests. Rooms not the cleanest (again understaffed). New rooms are very nice and most of the staff that I have encountered has been helpful.

This facility should not be accepting any new residents at this time. They do not have the administrative or healthcare staff to take care of the residents. If it wasn't this time of year, my daughter and I would be pulling my husband out of there this month. He has been there for three months and every month we keep hoping his care will get better but it does not. They do not keep him dry since he is incontinent, he is immobile and have forgotten him in his room at dinner times, and since he is a two person assist, they ignore his needs because they don't have the staff to care for him. Luckily my daughter has been able to go there and check on him constantly or it's hard to tell what might have happened to him by now. We have even had his physical therapist call us and tell us what condition they found him in one morning when they were there. So, no I would not recommend Brooklyn Point to anyone else.

The staff were nice but none could speak English so very hard to communicate and not enough staff to feed the patients. I would not recommend Inspired Living at Ivy Ridge.

It was not what we expected. There is a significant language barrier. Most of the day to day staff only speak Spanish. Mom was there for less than a month.

Lots of issues with aides and housekeeping. Nurses are rude, arrogant and uncaring. Management has provided incorrect information. The previous executive director had no idea or didn't care about what goes on at this facility. The hope is that the new executive director will handle all the issues she has been stuck with. I regret moving my aunt to this facility. It's always some issue day in and out.