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165 Chestnut St, Brookline, MA 02445
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About the facility Goddard House
Goddard House Assisted Living in Brookline is committed to providing residents with a healthful, stimulating lifestyle and the perfect recipe of services delivered with the kindness and compassion that inspired its founding over a century ago. This vibrant and innovative community offers both traditional assisted living and memory care in an exquisite setting just outside of the city, along Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system.
Goddard House offers Brookline area seniors a unique environment including an art gallery, urban farming project featuring vegetable and herb gardens, chicken coop and bee hives, and Olmsted Place Memory Support Neighborhood. Goddard House embraces the aging experience for seniors living in the Boston area by operating a high-quality assisted living community and by creating innovative programs which support our need for purpose, engagement, autonomy and choice as we age.
Goddard House Assisted Living and Memory Support in Brookline is a not-for-profit organization serving elders in Massachusetts for more than 160 years and has been at the forefront of serving the needs of older adults in the Boston area since 1849 when it opened the first private, nonprofit home for elders in Massachusetts.
We serve local seniors throughout Brookline, MA as well Newton, and the abutting Boston neighborhoods of...
Goddard House offers Brookline area seniors a unique environment including an art gallery, urban farming project featuring vegetable and herb gardens, chicken coop and bee hives, and Olmsted Place Memory Support Neighborhood. Goddard House embraces the aging experience for seniors living in the Boston area by operating a high-quality assisted living community and by creating innovative programs which support our need for purpose, engagement, autonomy and choice as we age.
Goddard House Assisted Living and Memory Support in Brookline is a not-for-profit organization serving elders in Massachusetts for more than 160 years and has been at the forefront of serving the needs of older adults in the Boston area since 1849 when it opened the first private, nonprofit home for elders in Massachusetts.
We serve local seniors throughout Brookline, MA as well Newton, and the abutting Boston neighborhoods of...
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Assisted Living
Memory Care
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Pet friendly
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Care types offered
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Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
Care types offered
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Assisted Living, Independent Living
Care types offered
2
Assisted Living, Memory Care
Amenities at Goddard House
Healthcare Services
- Incontinence Care
- Staffing & Ancillary Services
- Memory Care
- Non-Ambulatory Care
- Medication Management
- Diabetic Care
Meals & Dining
- Organic
- Professional Chef
- Special Dining Programs
- Guest Meals
- Meals Provided
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Low / No Sodium
- Restaurant Style Dining
- Gluten-free
- No Sugar
Room Amenities
- Kitchenette
- Wheelchair Accessible Showers
- Respite or Short Term Stays Offered
Community Amenities
On-site dining options
- Café or Bistro
- Private Dining Room
Transportation & parking
- Property Convenient to Public Transit
- Uncovered Parking
- Complimentary Transportation
- Resident Parking Available
Pets
- Dogs Allowed
- Cats Allowed
Common areas
- Beauty Salon
- TV Lounge
- Outdoor Common Areas
- Indoor Common Areas
- Computer or Media Center
- Outside Patio
Recreational areas
- Arts and Crafts Center
- Raised Garden Beds
- Game Room
Services
- Laundry Service / Drycleaning
- Beautician
- Housekeeping
Languages spoken
- English
Activities
- Brain fitness / Dakim
- Cooking Classes
- Activities Off-site
- Trivia Games
- Happy Hour
- Intergenerational Programs
- Devotional Activities Offsite
- BBQs or Picnics
- Live Dance or Theater Performances
- Stretching Classes
- Educational Speakers / Life Long Learning
- Day Trips and Outings
- Devotional Activities On-Site
- Activities On-site
- Tai Chi
- Gardening Club
- Live Musical Performances
- Birthday Parties
- Holiday Parties
- Art Classes
- Yoga / Chair Yoga
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A Place for Mom has scored Goddard House with 3 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 1 review in the last 2 years. Over all time, Goddard House has 2 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 1.8 out of 5.
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1.8
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Care Services
3.0
Staff
5.0
Meals & Dining
1.0
Activities
3.0
Value for Cost
2.0
A Place for Mom has scored Goddard House with 3 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 1 review in the last 2 years. Over all time, Goddard House has 2 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 1.8 out of 5.
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John - Family/friend
Assisted Living
February 14, 2024
Worst administration I’ve experienced
My mother has been here now for several years and if I could afford to move her I would. The stars are for the wonderful caregivers- they get a 5, and it’s why my mom is happy there. The families on the other hand are incredibly frustrated. My mother moved in and we received no welcome packet- neither of us. There was not a single meeting with my mother or me after she moved in ever. reaching the head nurse to set up an appt was impossible. Why? Who knows. The turnover of the directors and the head nurses are annual- this director has lasted 2 years, but she is the 4th in 5? 6? Years. We can’t even keep up with their names! The AM receptionist is great, but none of the others know what’s going on day to day- not the support groups, hair stylist, et -how do you not know who is coming in the facility each day, or their schedules? the director doesn’t even know! NO Mediterranean diet. Pizza. Turkey tetrazzini. Wings. & tons of sugar from morn to eve. It used to be great 10 yrs ago
anonymous - Toured community
Memory Care
April 25, 2022
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The tour itself and the follow-up paperwork was a nightmare.
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