I live in Brightview Wakefield MA. it's a great place to live! They have activities & exercise…read moreclasses every day. You can participate or not. They play Bingo twice a week, my favorite! Brightview is kept immaculately clean. The people who work here are very helpful. The food is very good. You won't be bored living here. There are card games, craft classes, book clubs, bridge, Mah Jong, jewelry making classes. Happy hour at 3:00 you may have a beer or a glasses of wine if you wish. Brian Pattern entertains us playing the piano & singing as scheduled. I have been here almost 2 years. I'm happy I chose Brightview to live. There is Assisted living & Independent living, someplace for everyone if you need help!

I highly recommend BrightView Senior Living in Wakefield, Mass. The staff is always kind and…read morehelpful and the facility is well set up to accommodate the needs of its residents.

Poor staffing , week ends clients are forced to sit at a table in a community room all day…read moreHorrible meals

My husband suffered a serious systemic infection and spent 2weeks in hospital, 2 weeks in a rehab…read morehospital and then about 2 weeks at Bear Hill back in June 2025. Things started going downhill on his 1st day there. The halls are empty - I always wondered where the nurses were. He was admitted at 2 pm and at 6:30 pm, his nurse had no information about him: the "supervisor" hadn't entered his info in their computer system. The only good nurse he had was Janet. His IV meds were often late and they took a long time to respond to his call light. My husband said some of the evening nurses would ask him "what are you here for?" Guess they don't review the patients' charts. The CNAs, however, were great! I would not send anyone here ever!!! Nursing care is almost nonexistent. This is a late entry as I thought I had already sent a review.

They unfortunately have great rooms and a few good people that work here, but they have forgotten…read moreto bring my grandfather to dinner before which is a terrible thing to do especially because he does not have a phone to contact us. They walk into the room unannounced and don't knock consistently. It is a clean room but the workers here are for the most part terrible and forget to do there job. They also do not take the trash out of his room. They don't take my grandfather out of his room for activities or anything special he sits in his room and does nothing.

Benchmark Woburn is nothing short of amazing. Memory care staff are top-notch! Safety and caring…read moreare the most important factors! Thank you to all of the staff at Benchmark Woburn!

Every time I hear the word Benchmark, I think excellence. I know several people who work in the…read moreindustry and Benchmark is known as the best there is. The care and services provided, especially if you or a family member are in need of extra support, are world class and the Staff is passionate and thoughtful in the work they do. I happen to know two people who work there right now. If I need assisted living in my lifetime, I would like to go to Benchmark!

Excellence in care! My mom thrived here on the memory care floor. The staff was super! The front…read moredesk great. Glad they got rid of Anitra the nurse. She was not good. This is where I would want to go, however at $10,000 who the hell could afford it. Hopefully I can stay at home till I die. Sorry staff, you are great but I can't afford to go there.

Lousy care. Very unfriendly help. Food awful In for rehab and they were NOT helpful.read more

This facility was listed as 5 star on medicare. I think Medicare needs to do a tour of this place…read more It was run down. The windows in my moms room did not even open. The light was broken and the aides knew this. My mom was there 2 weeks and no one fixed it. Some of the aides were helpful but most just sat around. My mom would wait half an hour after ringing the bell to use the bathroom. One person would not push her wheel chair to the bathroom. My mom could not do this herself. The food was good and they had a few nice activities. The TV was smaller than my laptop screen. My mom could not wait to get out of there.

everything!!! beautiful place but not enough people to take care of your loved ones! my mom went…read morethere and stayed in memory care in 3 rd floor saying she needed more care for thousands more! she got less care! Don't let them fool you about the more care line! they are very expensive! you will see the place and say wow. but the care is not what they tell you! I know this because i witnessed it myself by visiting my mom.. she would scream for help for hours! I will say the only one that seemed like she cared was a girl named sandra and doris... and when they weren't there it was horrible. i would have to drive down there and put her to bed! and the hospice team was cold and rude ! something i will never forget! i believe it was alcare hospice out of lynn mass!

Sunrise Assisted Living is a franchised senior living facility. There are several across the USA…read moreand they all look fairly similar. The ambiance is one of a Victorian mansion with pretty landscaping, porches, rocking chairs and pretty grounds to wander. The interior is warm with use of dark and medium woods, a grand staircase plus amenities such as a pub, dining room, lounging areas to socialize, exercise/tv room. It makes for a good impression during a site visit. The sales pitch is very good as you are told what you want to hear in how well your aging parent(s) will be taken cared of. The reality is a different story. The food is almost unpalatable and if you complain it falls on deaf ears. Actually deaf ears is what this location does best. The rooms are comfortable but every member of the staff has a key to get in but there is not method of tracking who enters the room and at what time. This is important since theft occurs and since there is no way to track who enters your room and when, the staff get away with it. The staff must be low paid and basically look at their job as a j-o-b with very little passion for what they are doing. My mother had her laundry done and it is supposed to be folded for her but on more than one occasion, the staff simply dumped it on her bed and left. I have visited her on a number of occasions and found her door literally open to the hallway with anyone having easy access to get in. Security is a joke as anyone can walk in, get on the elevators and do whatever. When a resident complains the staff, including the directors and managers, treat them as old people who don't know what theyre talking about. This place is simply not the best choice for assisted living. They romance you with the facility and tell you what you want to hear but living here is a different matter. We moved my mother out of here to another facility that really has their act together and she has never been happier.

Don't use this home care!!! They have many issues staff. Not showing up! It discuss me that when…read moreyou have been told someone will be coming to help and they don't show. You call the office they have no one. UNACCEPTABLE. THIS OFFICE NEEDS TO BE INVESTED FOR NOT KEEPING STAFF ON THEIR TOES. DO NOT USE THEM.

This company is lousy, unsafe and unethical for too many reasons to list here…read more They can't answer the phone. And if they do, good luck finding someone who can intelligently answer your question. The employees barely speak English! The aids, while very nice and many sincere and competent, are underpaid and consistently abused by the company. And sadly, about half of them, don't show up when you are counting on them. Missing hours, late paychecks, promises to pay mileage when they actually don't, no benefits, and a tyrannical office manager who is only on premise about 5 to 6 hours per week. The owners are gold diggers who are taking advantage of seniors and the current service void in senior care. This is exactly the kind of company that YELP and the Better Business Bureau were designed to protect you from. I do not recommend you work for them. Employees last less than a year there. I do not recommend that you trust your cherished family member to their care. They will end up in the hospital... or worse. And if you are a vendor of any kind, do yourself a favor and cut your ties now before they end up owing you whole lot (more!) money. And you know exactly what I'm talking about because they probably owe you a lot of money...right now. This company will disappoint you on every level and they will do it consistently. It should be illegal for people to operate a company like this.

Shah Shaikh reassured me that "You can stop being a caretaker and go back to being a daughter." My…read moregut knew better than to trust the dead-eyed, California transplant, former car salesman who talked to people without looking them in their eye, staring just over the top of their head with the rehearsed caring tone of someone possessing empathy, but when your mom with dementia starts wandering, you hope that you're the problem and too suspicious of everybody. Often with very little sleep from partying with "the ladies," he would repeatedly suggest one plan only to switch gears midway then start another. I was open to the chaos if it worked. After all, I warned them about my mom's preexisting conditions that could make her more challenging than their average dementia patients, was transparent about her financial status and clear about what I was looking for. I had cared for my Mom since the nineties and physically could not continue to do so. Later Shah would call me then get annoyed if I asked clarifying follow-up questions, I hoped that he was just a young guy who had more confidence than skills to back it up and compensating with curtness. I eventually lost my patience when he suggested that my Mom move two more times after her admission--to Windrose at Weymouth then Prospect House in Chelsea. HallKeen runs both facilities and Google WGBH & Prospect House for more on that facility, which was uncommunicative with their Windrose at Woburn colleagues during the selection process. There are flat fees in the thousands with every move. He even managed to confuse me with my Mom in one written exchange though our names are not similar and presumably he saw my Mom and spoke to her each day. It was only later after the ordeal was over that the Ombudsman revealed that Shah's suggestions that I do not visit my Mom so she could acclimate is considered a retro, potentially psychologically abusive treatment. With that said, there were plenty of well-intentioned, kind people who were also unintentionally psychologically harmful. Windrose reassured me that they would do a full psych eval of my Mom when she was admitted in April. I also repeatedly told them to call her prior psych nurse before he retired. After repeatedly calling me and asking me what they should do, they only admitted in June that they never did either. By then, my Mom's psychological condition deteriorated compared to the person that I took care of. She started refusing to dress and apparently walked around naked. While getting her to dress in anything other than sleep apparel was a challenge at home, she was fully clothed. Still Windrose at Woburn deserves some credit. Mom danced and sang while there and had numerous happy moments, most of which Windrose never officially disclosed except once. After admission, Shah only sent me one video of my Mom and a video of his favorite four residents without my Mom, which seemed random. When my Mom was moving out, other employees were kind enough to share their warm memories of Mom, including photos and videos that I would treasure. I have no idea why Windrose at Woburn would not officially want credit when they did a good job. Is it because they did not want proof that my Mom was always fine so when she would later precipitously decline, I would have no proof that it was unusual? I hope not. I believe that many people at Windrose at Woburn had my Mom's best interest at heart, but they did not know how to handle her. When you're paying $8950.00 per month, well-intentioned is not good enough. The Windrose way is to overpromise and underdeliver, and while only God knows a man's heart, the subsequent transfer to Windrose at Weymouth seemed to confirm that the goal was to drain my mother of her life savings before they had a valid excuse to get her out and not permit her to return even with additional assistance just when the money ran out. If you want to find out how this story ends, go to my Google review of Windrose at Weymouth. Spoiler alert: my Mom died on 11/22/24 at 6:48 pm.

I have had nothing but the best experience with Windrose, especially with Shah. I have had calls…read morefrom him after hours and on weekends if I had a question or needed some reassurance regarding my mother. I have found the staff, Cheryl, Linda and Meiko , like Shah to be very compassionate and understanding and do what they can to make my mother as comfortable as can be. I appreciate having a place where I know she is being taken care of especially during the hardest days of her life. I would very highly recommend Windrose at Woburn.