My dear brother, Ronald was at Alpine Residences for a few months before passing-away from cancer…read more He loved it there!!! He'd always tell folks that came to tour that it was "5 star service and treatment!" He felt like royalty. I toured other places but I could "feel" the care & comfort that Alpine would provide. It was also less expensive & better than other adult family homes. It was an easy choice. I knew when I walked in when trying to decide where he would likely spend the last days, I could "feel" that this was "it." Very clean, pleasant & beautiful. Every room provided privacy & comfort. The grounds are lovely with attention & care to the landscaping & seasonal container gardening; very well-maintained. A large deck out front & gazebo in back that my brother truly enjoyed on sunny days was a big plus. He was hospitalized well over 100 days prior & wasn't able to "go out." Heather & Daniel, the owners, are both nurses with experience in adult family care. She was a director for decades & knows the ins & outs of what is needed for all situations for folks needing 24 hour care. Although my brother was only 68, they had a few tenants over 100 years old! Amazing to say the least. Heather scrutinized the prescriptions that kept changing and was "on it" when he finally needed to go back to the hospital. I'd hate to think what may have happened if it were not for her attention to his condition & needs. Alpine has a full staff of nurses that live in residence separated from the main floor so we felt assured that of my brother needed anything, anytime it was provided. Tony & Nova, the main nurses were so sweet & kind. They prepared meals & cared for my brother with absolute love & respect. They even made his recipe for spaghetti! I cannot say enough about Alpine Residences. If you can get your loved one in here, you will not regret it & would be very fortunate.

From the owner: Alpine Residences: Prioritizing Happiness, Health, and Safety…read more The Comforts of Home with Trusted Care: Our senior living environment offers a warm, homelike atmosphere with personalized attention for every resident. 24/7 Expert Care: Compassionate, licensed, and experienced caregivers are available around the clock to meet your loved one’s needs. On-Site Medical Support: Skilled nurses and visiting doctors provide comprehensive healthcare services. Dedicated Live-In Caregivers: Full-time caregivers live on-site 24/7 to offer continuous, individualized care. Engaging Activities for Everyone: Thoughtfully curated activities promote connection, engagement, and well-being for residents and caregivers alike. State-Licensed Retirement Home: As a licensed adult family home, we take pride in exceeding Washington State standards. With a track record of citation-free surveys, we ensure exceptional care in a safe and welcoming environment. Discover the Difference: At Alpine Residences, your loved one will feel truly at home, cared for like family in a trusted retirement home setting. At Alpine Residences, our mission is to provide exceptional care that ensures the happiness, health, and safety of your loved one. Our senior living and retirement home community is designed to create peace of mind for up to 8 residents and their families by fostering a nurturing and supportive environment. Visit our Bridle Trails location in Kirkland, just minutes from Bellevue.

Visited to look at for parents: Lipstick on a pig, very…read morehigh prices Food: great, one HUGE upside Staff: SEVERELY understaffed, that was a huge concern

We visited Cogir to see if it might be a good fit for our 93‑year‑old mother‑in‑law, and we came…read moreaway really impressed. The place is upscale, set in a quiet neighborhood, and has a full range of options -- from independent living to assisted living, memory care, and even hospice. The residents I chatted with had nothing but great things to say, which was reassuring. We also got to try the food they serve, and it was surprisingly good. All in all, we're seriously considering having my mother‑in‑law move here.

This is the kind of living in downtown Bellevue I'd love have, from the valet team to the chef,…read moreservers, and management, the service was flawless. You can just feel how well the residents are cared for here--it's the kind of place anyone would be lucky to call home. I couldn't resist snapping the gorgeous views and the chef's spread for our group of CFOs... trust me, it tasted even better than it looked!

Absolutely wonderful facility!…read more Did some extensive research on options for Gma about a year before she moved in, June of 2025. Wanted a quality place where she would feel at home and be able to make friends and socialize and stay busy. The Executive Director, Madelyn, is absolutely fabulous to work with, you can tell she really cares about the residents and has a passion for what she does. The support staff and activities team are all so welcoming, smiley and overall great to be around and provide a very warm and welcoming vibe for residents and visitors! We did some extensive research into assisted living facilities and this was by far my #1 choice for reasons I will list below: 1. The amenities - activities galore and always changing, well thought out and the activities staff are friendly and are proficient in social engagement for the elderly and cognitively impaired. They do a good job of offering lots of engagement opportunities for residents. 1.a. - Addtl ammenitites - attached bistro that is open to the public, resident key required for entry from bistro into the facility. Nice for a little change of scenery 1. b. - Addtl - salon on site! Addtl fee, but there is a hair salon ON SITE ... I believe they might do nails as well but not sure... but this is SO convenient for those that don't drive and don't want to hassle with booking the resident shuttle LOVE LOVE This! & it's right off the entry way so it has a nice window view to the street 1. c. - Addtl - shuttle! The resident shuttle can be booked to take vehicle-less residents to their doctors appointments, or any other places within a 5 mile radius that they need to go! They typically have a weekly grocery trip on the activities calendar as well, so there's a pre-planned trip that everyone can go on for any grocery needs. 2. The facitity itself - always clean, very beautifully decorated, love the small touches of real flowers on the lunch tables when they have them as well as holiday decor, little snack and treats in the lounging area with some fresh water, apples and cookies, great layout of the facility, good location with a decent flat walkway right out front that residents can go for easy walks. Elavators with key required access to go to up resident floors. Location is RIGHT down the street from Overlake hospital, which is convenient, we did have to go there one evening when gma was having dizziness and vomiting and it only took a few minutes to get there. VERY convenient for healthcare reasons. 2. a Rooms - rooms are somewhat small but are perfect size for one or two people that are mostly going to be out and about in the facility the majority of the day. Each room has decent views so that is very nice (we looked at several different options of rooms before choosing). The bathrooms are large and perfect for safety for the age range of target residents. Linens and house keeping are provided once a week!!! Yay!!! 3. Care & safety - The assisted staff bring meds in the AM and they do nightly safety check rounds, call button lanyard for each resident and emergency safety pulls in each restroom in the facility and in each private resident restroom. RN on staff with 24/7 staff on site who can call the on-call RN if needed. Concierge staffed desk during the open hours of the facility, which is so nice there's always someone monitoring who is coming in, check in required with name badge. Resident key required for elavators up to floors! 4. Food & dining - the food is excellent and a well thought out rotating menu. Some of the same, regular items available, but always a new highlighted daily menu with new and exciting items. The food is clearly quality and cooked well, they didn't hire just anyone, the chef is a real chef! The dining room is open access all day from AM until dinner time, I think they close up at 6pm. 5. Staff - how the facility chooses their staff and what type of staff they have on site says a lot. All the staff during my visit seems welcoming, pleasant, smiling, helpful and overall enjoyed being at their jobs. The long term care sector can be one that is overlooked and underserved and we were not going to choose a place that hires people that don't want to be at their jobs because caring for loved ones is a very important role and this was a huge factor for us as well. 6. Price - price is expensive but honestly is similar to other facilities yet far exceeds in value above and beyond the others that we looked at. We visited this place about a year prior to moving Gma in, they allowed us to come for a complementary lunch and activity to get a feel and be shown around and all that. Mom and I visited, did the tour and looked at rooms and a later date I brought Gma for lunch and an activity. I was very pleased with the experience and recently visited Gma in Oct of 2025, a few months after she moved in, for about a week and a half. The experience was nothing less than the prior visit! A+++ would HIGHLY recommend!

My Aunt has been at Aegis Living Greenwood for three years. The experience has not been positive…read more The major problem is that Aegis is a for profit enterprise run by an owner who wants to maximize his profits. This is done at the expense of senior residents and their families who feel trapped. When our aunt entered the facility her monthly invoice was about $8,000. Due to inflation and a "care point" system imposed by Aegis, her current invoice is now over $14,000 per month. Yes, there has been a gradual decline in my aunt's physical and mental abilities, but nothing so acute as to warrant a 75% increase in the cost of her care within three years. Rather, it feels like Aegis has devised a way to legally extort ever greater sums out of its vulnerable senior residents and their families. Within the fine print of the contract she signed there is a "care points" system which is supposed to relate to additional services that may be provided. Aegis has the UNILATERAL power to impose these services and charges on the resident. Just this past month, Aegis Greenwood said it installed a new software to calculate care points, and by virtue of this new system even more points were added DESPITE no additional services being provided. Additionally, the Aegis assessments are incredibly vague in describing which specific services are being provided to justify the additional points being charged. When one contacts Aegis for an explanation of the charges, they deflect giving an answer and instead request a face to face meeting, so that they can have the element of surprise and create intimidation by bringing in several employees. They refuse to put anything in writing. I feel that Aegis has entrapped and is financially abusing my aunt and likely many other vulnerable seniors for whom changes, like moving their residence, is a very difficult matter. One report filed with the State says, "He did not recall signing anything recently regarding an increase in care points. He was paying 10-11K per month when his mother moved into assisted living and now pays between $18-19K per month [three years later]." Sounds familiar. Even with all of this going on, it is unlikely I will move my aunt as she has settled into the place and moving her would be a true hardship on her at this stage of her life. I am managing her finances so only I have to deal with the disgusting behavior of Aegis management.

I was there for 2 months. They don't have enough care givers. A couple of times I waited 45…read moreminutes before somebody help me t go to the bathroom One night they has technical problems with the call buttons, I started to yell "Help" and nobody was coming, I called my daughter and she came and she could here as soon as she got out of the elevator. She went to find some one, and there wasn't anybody. We try to call the front desk and nobody responded. It was 11 o'clock. My daughter had to get out fo help. No one came till after 12:30 The activies were lame, and the food was not healthy

I'm a health care professional in hospice, and a huge part of my job is helping patients and…read morefamilies obtain quality and affordable private caregivers to supplement the care that the family is providing for their loved one. Husky, a smaller and caring agency, recently came into a very challenging situation with a frail very elderly couple, and despite their resistance to accepting outside care, Husky has completely won them over. Unlike some other care agencies that i've worked with,Husky not only comes in and provides a free consult with a care manager, they CONTINUE to have the managers monitor and communicate with the family and the healthcare team. Care managers Jennifer and Kris have been stellar in this way, and have found the most amazing caregiver, Michael, who visits them 2x weekly, each for 4 hours. They do it all, from driving the couple to errands and MD appts, to an outing at the lake, to meal prep, to light housekeeping, to personal care for our hospice patient. They are not the cheapest agency out there, but there is a real reason for this: quality caregivers, and a hands-on collaborative approach, My agency has no affiliation or relationship with Husky or any other agency, but i did feel it would be helpful for those who are seeking good safe care to give it a go. :)

We wanted to move my mom out of assisted living and back home for her final days. Husky got full…read moretime care set up in just a few days. Their caretakers were great, and mom was able to pass in her own home.

I reached out to Trish for advice when it was hard to know where to turn. She was extremely…read moregenerous with her time during a free consultation and had good ideas, then followed up with her suggestions in writing with no hard sell for her own services. She's very willing to talk even if you're not sure what you need.

I highly recommend Patricia Throop and ElderCare Consulting. She provides a truly valuable and…read moremuch needed service to anyone needing help with decisions and care for aging parents and other loved ones.

Wow, just wow! So obviously I don't live here. But I just interviewed for a job at this BEAUTIFUL…read moreplace. And it exceeds expectations for any senior living community I would hope to live at. From the resident in the lobby that I was fortunate enough to have some small talk with to the gal that runs the front desk. Everyone is so so sweet and it seems like everyone really enjoys being there.. they have a saltwater pool indoors a full physical therapy area a beautiful salon, a bar, a gorgeous dining area, and a personal party dining area and from what I could tell at five star chef because man it smelt so good. this is a faith-based program, but not exclusively. This is a new facility built two years ago. And they still have about 48% of their occupancy available. If you guys are interested this is the place you should definitely look at. No joke!!! I'm only 38, but I'm going to be keeping this one in mind for future needs. lol

My mother lives at this facility and she has been without hot water for close to one month. The…read morefacility is very slow to respond to issues such as this and refuses to give any refunds or discounts during this, and the only temporary solution they have provided is to ask the seniors to go shower in other apartments which is absolutely unacceptable considering how expensive this facility is. It has been very frustrating and disappointing

My parents moved into Merrill Gardens at University Village when it became apparent my mom could…read moreno longer navigate the stairs in their 2 story home much less cook and clean. MG proved to be a wonderful place for them to live. They enjoyed the friendships they made with the fellow residents, the multitude of activities and events organized by Mindy, the simplicity of having their meals prepared and their apartment cleaned, the kindness of the employees including everyone from the administration to the front desk to the kitchen staff and especially the excellent care provided by the caregivers. Their compassion and professionalism was exceptional. My siblings and I are deeply grateful. Thank you!

Kudos to M.G. u for a fine job of orgaizing and conductingCovid Vaccinations for all residents and…read morestaff and for including private care givers. GoodJob! As we would say in the U.S. Navy, "Bravo Zulu to all hands."

It's such a hard decision knowing when is the right time to move into an assisted care facility but…read moretalking with Karen made things seem so much less daunting. The space was beautiful and felt more like a boutique hotel than your "A" typical assisted care facility. She gave me a lot of great information, they are at the top of my list but ultimately it's our loved ones decision.

Just received my THIRD large check from the third class action lawsuit against Aegis and how it…read moremistreats is residents -all pre COVID. Dad passed (thankfully) way before COVID - I can only imagine the lawsuits continue (and were worse during COVID.) Stay away from this company.

Our family has two members currently residing at Ida Culver House. One is totally independent and…read morethe other requires more support. Both are pretty happy with the environment. They both state that they really enjoy the meals and the dining facilities, also the opportunities to socialize with others in a variety of dining options. I am unable to address the costs with any accuracy so I will say I only understand that fees are 'hefty'. But that includes all expenses. The family members support each them with frequent visits and supplement anything they need. At times, the staff is not 100% on the ball and require that we keep check on doctor's orders. It is important to do this since health issues are involved.  There are a variety of activities offered and many residents take advantage of the offerings and state that the choices are outstanding. These activities offer so much, friendships, socialization, enjoyment and much more. The programs are high quality and open to all. So far, the individual apartments are pretty basic. The windows are large and open onto lovely landscaping. Moving in required that each family member had to leave much behind and only bring in a few treasured items to fit into the small apartments. For our family members it is important that we 'supplement' their lives with our support. We do so with love and affection.

My father and some friends are currently living at the IDA Culver House, Broadview in Seattle. I…read morehave had dinner with them a number of times. Every time I visit the Ida Culver house, I am just so impressed with the quality of the staff. One of the places where the staff has an opportunity to really shine is in the dining room. Every time I am there, I am just so impressed with how the staff handles their roles, how kind and engaging they are with the residents. At the end of pretty much every meal, "someone" seems to always mentions how great the staff is.