The Arbor Company

I would not recommend The Preserve at Palm Aire for anyone seeking Independent Living arrangements. There are no separate areas for the Independent folks. The management allows the Assisted Living people to come into the supposedly Independent L. areas at will, including the Independent Living dining room, even though they have their own dining room. It is very DEPRESSING to see all these walkers and motorized scooters everywhere and residents being fed by aides that are not supposed to be in the dining room and drooling over their food. The facilities are nice and the price is good but it has the atmosphere of a nursing home not a smart Independent Living facility. Also, the management does nothing about the many legitimate complaints that everyone has. They have excuses for everything. Especially the food! They are serving us cafeteria grade food, not cooked right, cold when served, strange recipes, and running out before the dining time is over. The complainers are labeled "trouble makers." No I would not recommend The Reserve at Palm Aire. Come see for yourself at 4:30 some evening. An independent Living Resident

Legacy Oaks changed ownership a week after we moved my parents in. The change was very noticeable, and not in a positive way. The food went from very good to almost inedible. They began operating on skeleton staffs. My mother consistently waited 15 to 20 minutes for assistance. There are some very caring and kind staff members, but I’m sure the change in ownership and the lack of appropriate staffing has everyone spread too thin. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend looking at other options. This is not the facility we were originally sold on, and have since moved my parents elsewhere.

Why don't you show pictures of any rooms or square footage of same? Why are there no ratings?

First off, Arbor Terrace was unaware of the tour I scheduled on this site. [Removed] sat down with me and was very pleasant, speaking about the facility and the continuity of care. Many of the staff have been with Arbor Terrace for years. We discussed pricing and that is when the conversation turned not-so-pleasant. Once she heard my Mom's assets and monthly income, the 'tour' was finished. She told me flat out that my Mom could not afford Arbor Terrace and instead suggested other facilities in the area. This was my first tour and I was devastated. Oh, and I never got to see anything but the front desk.

I am happy with the services my husband has at The Vantage. My only worry is that the food is not hot when reaches the fourth floor

The Harbor is a beautiful facility, and we had high hopes for it being the right place for our loved one. We caution you to stay fully involved in the management and care of your loved one if you choose this facility. We recently moved our loved one from The Harbor for many reasons, but most importantly, over medication issues. Meds were ordered in an eractic way, and I made many calls attempting to understand. Upon moving our loved one, we learned that one of the reasons for a declining attitude was due to not receiving an important medication. Meals were also taking a great deal of time to be served with the order then being cold and many times wrong. Transportation was an issue if you choose not to use the house doctors. The lobby is cold and uninviting. Don't expect a staff member to speak to you. You're paying a great deal and not receiving top dollar care. Our disappointing experience meant we were not getting what felt we were paying for. Know that there will be an annual increase.

Assisted and Independent (2nd/3rd Fl) seems to be very good. If you can walk, take care of yourself and still perform the basic necessities of life that might be the place to be. Memory care on First floor another subject, poor . As nice and loving as the caregivers are in Memory care they are not properly trained in all the different varieties of care needed, especially dementia patients. It's not their fault but corporate that hasn't provided them with the proper training. Would strongly recommend if you are thinking about putting your loved one in the memory section of this facility that you spend 2 or 3 days on different shifts in it to decide for yourself. The staff is hard to keep in memory care and it's a revolving door for getting good employers and keeping them on a long term basis. They also do not have a registered RN on site.

Mom didn't like the area although the people were nice.

It is still a work in progress for us here at this community. My mother for the most part is doing well, but I do have my concerns about this facility. The medical staff needs improvement. They have a doctor onsite, but it seems like he has a lot going on. My mother doesn't seem to get the care she needs. She says the staff is slow to response when she needs help. The staff is very caring, and trying their best.

The CNAs are very good. Unlike many ALF places, they actually pay attention to the assisted living residences. 1 BR apts are available for those who need more space. The memory center residences are kept in their own wing, The ALF and IL residents share activities which is a big plus. Not all places allow this. The CNAs and the LPNs are very attentive and patient. You can take a shower in the morning or evening. Some places have shower-time between 6:45 - 7:45 pm only due to limited CNA staff. Not at the Preserve, tho. Preserve is very flexible. Showers 7 days a week are available depending on the plan. The food for ALF is pretty bad, to say the least. Also, unlike in the IL dining room, you end up eating whatever they throw in front of you. They do give the residences a menu where they circle their choices from the limited list. However, the servers don't always follow what the resident asked for and sometimes bring anything. Also, they take forever to serve. I guess they do their best, but they are not trained as servers and English is not their first language. When I visit, I take my parent to the IL dining room so she can order whatever she wants from the menu and actually get it. Also, she gets good service from professional servers. The one thing, the servers in IL speak English as their first language. While the direct service staff do a reasonably good job, the management need more supervision from their parent company, Life Care Services (LCS). Preserve was recently acquired by LCS so the managers (they call themselves "directors", but that's mostly a form of title inflation) still haven't gotten their act together. Back in July, one of the managers physically accosted a family member of one of the residents and the police had to be called. The family member agreed to leave things as "criminal complaint" and not escalate it to "criminal charge" if he promises to behave himself and not do that kind of thing again. I know that, with the changeover in executive management in Des Moines, IA, the interim management at the Preserve want to make a good impression with their bosses. [removed]. Hopefully, LCS will take some action and prevent this kind of thing from happening too often. Employees should not be physically threatening residents or their family members. My parent's BP went right up when this stuff happened. It's important that my parent lives in safe place where her health is not compromised. The managers do a lot of up-selling. Occassionally my parent needs to go to the toilet when she is returned from a meal or activity. As long as the CNA is there, she can ask if my parent needs to go now. The ALF manager told us we must pay an extra $1000 for that service. We said no, and she didn't push it any further. Most ALF properties let me stay overnight when visiting for a week to 10 days. Preserve wants me to rent a separate room for $150 a night. I just go to a cheap $55/night room up to the road. They didn't like that and called me at the hotel, accused me of staying overnight at their property and insisted I move into a $150 night room or, better yet, rent a more expensive 2-BR apt for my parent for those times I visit. Again, I said no. Nevertheless, they wasted time writing up a lease for the 2-BR in case I changed my mind. I guess their managers have a lot of time on their hands to take work hours out to do this kind of stuff. The physical therapist who comes in twice a week to provide one-on-one rehab is very good. She also runs the 3-day a week senior aerobics class which my parent enjoys going to. It's also a nice way for the ALF and IL residents to socialize and make friends. This is a big plus. She also advises on other rehab such as OT and ST. Very nice. Once the shake-down from the new LCS executive management is settled, and the interim managers are replaced by experienced senior staff, the Preserve should turn out to be a pretty good place. We won't be hasty. We'll give them some time to fix things, which the corporate office tells me they will look into. If they can resolve this, I can see my loved one staying there for a quite a while.

Felt and smelt like a nursing home.

Our family member has been a resident for several months and we have noticed significant employees turn over leaving us wondering what is really going on? They are always short staffed and the 10 min response time guarantee is not being adhered to however they will insist it is. They promise the world but can't deliver and not accommodating. Beware and don't be fooled by the esthetic.

Brand new and beautiful. Only 7 residents out of 28 so far. Not sure about handling Dad's tough behavior.

My parents were living in the assisted living apartment. While the apartment and facility was nice the level of care was not what I expected. The staff was friendly but extremely over worked. In the 2 months they lived there I had to do laundry 4 times - staff would stop by and ask my mom (who suffers from cognitive issues) if they had laundry to do- of course she said no and they would move on. The facility needs to take more care in fall prevention as well. They spent a lot in cosmetic refurbishing but with seniors you need to focus on residents. You don’t get many second chances. I regret moving my parents to this facility. My dad was in the ER 4 times in the month of May. Needless to say I moved them out. If you visited in the weekend it was a ghost town - scary that you could often walk the halls and not see any staff around. Call button response time was well over 20 minutes.

The food in the dining room is terrible. The limited menu is repetitive with no real options to choose from.

Really bad "gourmet" meals Management really lies to prospective tenants Really way overpriced No medical facilities Tenants move in and then out

Both parents started out in Assisted Living at Atria and transitioned to Memory Care after a year. Once in that unit, we had constant problems. Both parents contracted skin infections (scabies) from unsanitary conditions. Laundry was not done frequently ($80/mo) and my parents would often wear other residents clothing. Clothing disappeared. Sheets and towels were rarely their own despite being well marked. We had to follow up constantly with management for medical attention. Looks lovely at first glance but dig a little deeper.

I have lived here for 2yrs. The first year was wonderful. This past year it has gone down hill terrible! Short staffed,food horrible! Running out of food to be served, no syrup when they have waffles on menu, sloppy Joes with cold hard onion rings plus hush puppies? Which are hard outside and gummy inside (why hush puppies?) we don't like any of it. Then take leftovers sloppy Joe and make spaghetti with it. We have soup 6 or more times a week. seniorsThey take Care givers and make them Med.techs. Residents are getting more upset each day. They even ran out of cups they use to give water in when giving meds.

Nice-looking building and some of the staff are wonderful, but they raised the monthly rent almost 10% every year (30 days notice) and there is very high staff turnover. Don't try to contact corporate with any issues - contact info not to be found anywhere. We moved mom out. I have years of billings and correspondence to confirm that mom lived there.

First, We needed to go to a facility where we needed full care for my wife, because I needed to heal from a hernia operation. We were assured that Arbor Terrace could provide this care. Our impression of the facility is very positive. The surroundings are great and very clean, the people are friendly, very homey and friendly place to be. Since I would be unable to care for my wife, it my understanding that all I had to do was signal for help, and someone would be there to provide this help within a maximum of 10 minutes. To our disappointment, that was not the case. We would usually have to wait 45 minutes or more. When I asked the aide why it took so long to respond to our call, she said that she was busy helping someone else. I told her that I understood that when she was busy, she was to call another aide to attend to our call. He response was, they are busy also. During our stay we had two emergencies that the response time that 45 minute wait. The wait time is especially bad is during meal time, when the aides are transporting residents down to the dinning room. If someone has an emergency during that time, they could be I real trouble.