Greenbrier Senior Living

We toured this community while looking into senior care options for a loved one. Brookdale Brandon seemed like a very nice place! The community was well kept, and everyone we interacted with seemed happy and polite.

My Mother is having a hard time adjusting but they are going out of there way to help her. They are accommodating. The facility itself is very clean and well kept. The Food is fair. i would recommend the Lighthouse Senior Living at Hopkins Creek to anyone who is searching for an assisted living community in Essex, MD. The value is excellent. My overall rating of this property is 4 stars. This is a nice community in the MD area.

Our loved one has only been here a short time, but so far Brookdale Island Lake has done an excellent job overall in terms of the care and services they provide. The facility itself is very pretty, and always well kept and clean. The staff are all very friendly and seem to take great care of the people who live here.

We toured this community when we were looking into care options for a loved one. I thought this was a nice looking place overall, and the staff we spoke to all seemed very friendly. Out of the places we saw this would have been our second choice, it is definitely worth a look!

Overall my loved one seems to be enjoying himself here. The staff are friendly, and the facility itself is well kept and clean. Really the only complaint I have heard is that he says the food could be better!

Everything is fine. It's clean, and the staff is friendly. They get her out, and involved in some activities. There is a concern because there have been a couple of falls, but it's hard to say how much of that could be prevented. Other than that, they are doing pretty good.

We liked that their units are open, although we would have liked if they were a little bigger, but we did like that there was a washer and dryer in each unit.  The food was good, we had lunch during the tour. The community was clean, and the grounds were kept neat and tidy. The whole place seemed a bit dark because of the brown color scheme. We didn't notice any odors. Everyone we met was very pleasant. For what she was getting didn't find it outrages for the price. We also liked that they had an outside screen porch, and that they had some kind of activity going on all the time. They take them shopping, and they also have a bus service. Really her only concern was that the dining room was farther than she would like to walk from her room, but they said if she couldn't get to the dinning room they could bring food to her room.

Overall I think they've done a good job at Emeritus at Brandon. It's a nice looking, clean community, and everyone here seems to be very friendly. There are a few ways I think they could improve, however. First, I wish they would have a bit more variety in their activities, and I would like it if they did more outings. Second would be the food. The food itself is actually quite good, it is high quality and presented well. The issue is that sometimes it comes out cold, probably just due to the logistics of serving so many people. But overall I've been happy here, and I would recommend it to others.

It's going pretty well. The staff is very friendly, and it's kept very well. My loved one likes to lift weights and there is no weight room. There haven't been any complaints about the food. They have a very nice outdoor walking area. Some of the little rooms around the circle, are decorated for themes and different things, just a sitting room where one can read and get away from everybody would be nice. There are places to sit, but about 60 percent of the time there are guys laid out sleeping on the couch. I would think that the staff could take them back to their room. It would be nice if they offered some information in the entryway for Alzheimer's, and perhaps support groups. Perhaps the caregivers could offer some helpful information.

It is excellently clean. There are two different kinds of staff, the med techs are wonderful, they are so good. However when you try to reach the administrative staff they don't answer or call back, until one of the nurses and other staff will get the answers to the questions, again showing how great they are. I think they are a really good value. The activities are happening but aren't all as enchanting as the senior center would offer. What I had hoped for is that they would schedule them for activities to participate in and remind them to go. They have other dementia communities nearby so even if we need to move the deposit moves over to the other facilities, this was something we found particularly useful. The food is really tasty. The servings are small, but they don't need that much. The dining room has a feel of being in a restaraunt, and they get a choice. There are a couple things that are just always available, and a then they have choice of two entrees, there is a soup or salad, a main course with a starch, and desert. The waitstaff does a good job, and are friendly. The nurse gave us good advice. They are really good about the medication management too. They will make friends easier if you aren't there as often. They have a bus and will take you where you need to go, and then on Thursday if you request it a week ahead they will take you somewhere different if you need.

Overall the staff was friendly and very helpful. Communication could have been improved, and I think some more monitoring of health conditions could have been better. Lynette with A Place For Mom was instrumental in helping us understand everything and she spent a lot of time speaking with us about what our needs and options were.

first choice so far. very large facility, can stay if needs change down the road to more care needed

They were nice, each Brookdale had their own thing to offer. It's a little larger of a place, 2 or 3 stories, with elevators involved. I didn't want my mom to have to try and navigate that. It's a lovely place.

Facility has really nice studio rooms for AL seniors. The rooms are bigger and have a small kitchenette. Price range was lower than many other places that had smaller rooms. The facility is clean and the staff friendly.

He was in for less than a month, but couldn't go back to Clare Bridge because of the type of chair that he is in, he is in a geri chair and needs either a couple of people to get him up, or a lift since he no longer walks. While we were there, it was very good, it is a very nice community. The facility itself is a little nicer facility. He had his own room, like an efficiency apartment type thing. We were happy with them, and the staff all seemed very nice and conscientious.

It is a nice place. Comparative speaking, the pricing is good. My mom is in independent living, and I think that they over-advertise the availability of the nurse service. They say that there a nurse on call 24/7 for the independent residents, but they weren't always available. My mother has a lot of complaints about the food, but we ate there several times and I thought that the food was good. I think that it was a wise choice. They have physical activities, movies, bridge, and water aerobics. They do things outside of the center like going to dinner, shopping, and church services. There is always a full schedule of activities.

Lighthouse is extremely too expensive for their services. It's outrageous. They were charging $1000 more than the other places we saw. It was clean but it was more of an apartment kind of thing rather than buildings with apartments and common areas in a community setting. Lighthouse was more just apartments.

Very nice place. Looked and smelled clean. Studio and 1 bedroom apartments were roomy and had a kitchenette. Basic cable TV service included. All the common areas were well kept. Staff was friendly. Assisted Living section had 1/20 ratio of caregiver/resident. Room price range was lower than some of the other AL facilities.

With one visit to the website, followed by a speedy response call, A Place for Mom was able to guide us to five places nearby to meet the needs of our family and 93 year old grandmother. We quickly narrowed our search to Emeritus. The resources helped us stay focused and after several visits and preparation, she is now receiving additional care and much needed socialization. We will continue to learn and grow with the Emeritus team on communication style and preventative wellness measures, but are in general are quite pleased. The community is clean and the staff is pleasant and accommodating. Based on our own research, referrals, and reputation, we feel confident that we have chosen the best location.

My wife was there for about three months. She had glaucoma and her sight was very limited. If I wasn't there to feed her, they wouldn't feed her. They said that it's an assisted living and they expected the patients to feed themselves. However, because of her sight she couldn't see the plate or find the food so I had to be there to feed her. That was the only real serious complaint I had about them and the food wasn't that great either.