13 Independent Living Facilities near Dallas, GA

Originally my mother did not want to make the move from her own home to senior living, and the fact that she has settled in nicely at Grace Living and is not begging me to go to a different place is such a gift. I have no complaints on the care they provide. They have some staffing struggles like everybody else, but the staff they do have are as nice as can be and take good care of my mother, who is still ambulatory and can do a lot on her own. She doesn't complain about he food, and she most certainly would if she didn't like it. They serve a light breakfast, morning snack, with lunch as their heaviest meal, then an afternoon snack, and a lighter dinner. She just wishes she could have more coffee in the mornings. The one area for improvement is activities. They don't have an activities director, but they play bingo a couple days a week, have Christian TV shows on and Christian music playing, and occasionally they'll do a craft, etc. She just wishes there were a little more to do. But I'm very pleased with the price. They're more reasonable than a lot of the places I checked into. Some of the more expensive places were bigger with more services, but Grace Living is a smaller family-run facility that we're very happy with.

Mom was here for almost 3 years. Our first experience with senior residences, Gaines Park set the bar. The owners, staff, and facility were great. Clean, open, comfortable, Residents really did feel like ir was HOME.

It was difficult to get written documentation upfront of the facility's policies. I felt that the administrative staff that I met presented the facility well. I just like to see everything in writing. Apparently family is not able to call a loved one directly in their room. Summerset required you to go through the front desk to be connected. But even so, I could never really reach my loved one. The times that I called the operator to set up a FaceTime meeting or just call to speak to him, they always said he was not in his room and they couldn't quite put their hands on where he was at the facility at the time, walking around, etc. I didn't feel like a lot of effort was put into locating him so I could talk to him. And they completely discourage / do not allow visiting in the first several weeks, their rationale being to allow for dementia patients to adjust to being there. But that was absolutely heartbreaking to me.