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    5.0 (1 review)
    Closed 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

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    Spring Village at Stratford

    1.0
    (2 reviews)
    2.4 mi

    My mom was a resident for over three years. She was initially in the Assisted Living community…read more At the beginning there was a great community relations director, Karolina. The staff, in general, was good and she was happy with her friends. She had a lovely one bedroom apartment. Mom's dementia progressed so she was moved to Memory Care. About the same time there was a big turnover with staff and directors. Mom's room in Memory Care was much smaller but adequate. It was a shared suite but she had a door for privacy. She was cared for but there were occasions when the staff was just sitting around and mom had to be changed or her clothes were on inside out and backwards. I would often help her in the bathroom. She was walking and socializing and going to the dining room. In November, 2024 mom became so sick she couldn't get out of bed. Long story short she almost died at the hospital due to extreme dehydration. Her blood sugar had skyrocketed and she was severely constipated. She is still with us but we moved her to a medical facility with long term care. She can no longer walk and she came out of the trauma with her dementia much progressed. This should never have happened to her at a Memory Care facility. Couldn't be the first time as they fired the executive director and director of nursing at around the same time mom got sick. Mom was at rehab for a month before they finally got back to me regarding my emails. They tried to say mom got dehydrated due to the heat being turned on. Absolutely ridiculous. They are lucky we didn't sue them for negligence.

    Initial impression was good, however, it slowly dissipated. If your loved one is independent, they…read morewill be ok, however, when your loved one is not independent and i.e. needs extra help or needs medical attention or medical monitoring, rest assured you will have to take charge and micromanage it all by yourself. Head nurse is not proactive with addressing medical issues and when pressed after days/weeks of no-following up or returned phone calls, she will tell you things like "well i need a day off too". Activity director seemed very nice but in the end she did not show any integrity and seemed to be full of the b.s. that's handed out like the other staff. A speckle of great workers but they were very outnumbered by the not-so-good ones. Most staff are just there and have no interest or passion for the elderly and spend a lot of time on their cell phones. Good luck if you choose this place. What you see is mostly a front. Sadly, a lot of the others places are the same.

    Just Like Home

    Just Like Home

    1.0
    (1 review)
    4.0 mi

    Beware: Just Like Home's care homes sound nice at first glance. They are not…read more My mother lived at a JLH facility (Long Hill Home) from April '23 to october '23 when it was closed due to violations of CT state law. It was a nightmare for my mother and my family from the moment she moved in despite the look of a wonderful place we'd hoped would be "just like home". My mother has dementia. She knows family, is alert, can tell time, could dress herself and still, at 101, doesn't wear glasses. She flew from hawaii (where she was living near me) to Ct to be near the rest of the family. That trip began her star-crossed stay at LHH -- a formidable journey and 6 hours time difference that's tough on anyone, no less someone who's 100 years old. Within 2-3 weeks, the owner of Just Like Home informed us that my mother wasn't going to sleep early enough and needed to be on prescription medication. Since she obviously had jet lag and is a good sleeper, I recommended melatonin which worked immediately. Soon after that, the owner insisted my mother be on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety medication "or else". (NOTE: before my mother signed a contract to live at JLH, we asked if she could ever be kicked out of the home. The answer was a resounding "No.") My mother has never been depressed nor has any doctor ever suggested she be put on medication for anxiety in her long life, yet it was becoming clear that my mother wasn't receiving the individual care or attention we were promised and was feeling increasingly on edge. Residents were forced to go to bed at 7:00-7:30 regardless of their life-long body regimes or body clocks because staff wasn't capable of being awake or on property past 9:00p to look after the residents. (They were too busy cleaning and cooking, or going home to sleep or dealing with their families in the evening and on their cell phones much of the day.) forget the good food or promised 24/7, 1-on-3 care. I suggested CBD oil for mom's increasing anxiety and...voila! It significantly decreased. Still, the threats continued while the care and whole housing situation spiraled downward. (Did I mention this was the owner's 2nd care home opened without about 1.5 years with another being prepared for opening in the first year Mom was at LHH? Another reason for so many broken promises was lack of the owner's attention to the homes already opened and her lack of being able to staff the exiting homes with professional, trained staff.) As it turned out, every resident but my mother was on medication to keep them out of the caregivers' hair. My mother was ambulatory and social -- not as easy to ignore as a drugged-out person in a wheelchair or left in bed. The threats continued, while a different option for mom's care remained illusive. Finally, after a few months, with our family more and more divided by the deception and demands of the JLH owner, we put Mom on the lowest dose of the weakest anti-depressant. Yes, she was calmer, but it didn't negate the increasing lack of care. I finally visited Mom in late Aug '23. My fears were more than confirmed. My mother was shoved by a "caregiver" in front of my own eyes! Another resident was also pushed. (The very calm, mostly nonverbal man's rational response was, "if you ever do that to me again, I'll punch you in the face.") I knew we had to get my mother out of there. To their credit, the caregivers were overwhelmed with their indoor and outdoor duties. (There was a bag of cement left on the entry porch 6 months after my mom moved in from the construction of the home that I had to ask the caregivers to move.) The shrub beds around the house were bare, so my sister and another resident's family helped to plant them out. The kitchen floor was slippery with water and grease. (My mother almost fell one night at dinner while I was there). Food wasn't what the residents liked (or paid for), and the staff was consistently grouchy. There was a big staff turnover apparently because they wouldn't allow anyone to complain --even to the owner! -- about how the homes were being run and how staff was being overworked. Beside my mother being mistreated, my family and others suffered in the nightmare that wounded many of us and our family relationships. Meanwhile, the facility's owner seems to be perpetuating the ethos of all being well at their facilities, despite the utter, shameless fantasy. Our family was stricken with "what are we going to do??" when the facility was shut down last year. however, we soon realized we owed the state of CT gratitude for doing the right thing and shutting the place down while forcing us to get her out of that horrible, sad situation. We're finally past most of the pain and thankful my mother is now in a care home nearby with loving, trained staff. My comments are meant to help anyone thinking of putting their loved ones in the care of this facility to avoid being caught in JLH's guilded trap.

    From the owner: Dogwood Home is a one-story, ranch-style, 3000 square foot dementia-specific purpose-built…read morecommunity located in a suburban Fairfield County neighborhood of Shelton, CT. We are truly a home with only six seniors living as a family unit. Whatever stage of memory loss your senior may be experiencing, rest-assured that our caretakers are well-trained in Dementia and Alzheimer's memory issues and are extremely warm, embracing, loving, patient and kind. Your senior can age-in-place at the Dogwood Home-as we provide 24-hour care and assistance with eating, dressing, medicine, bathing, personal hygiene, housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation, and daily interaction with engaging activities. We offer a personal touch to each resident's needs.

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