Dellwood Gardens

In October of 2019, my brother and I had to make a hard decision to move our mother to assisted living. We checked out a few places and we knew that Dellwood Gardens was top notch compared to the others. At first our mom fought us and was stubborn and not allowing herself to like it. A few months pass and her Health Partners worker sent me an email telling me that she had spoken with my mom and she loves it and it is the best decision that we had made to get her into such a wonderful place and she feels at home. They have good food, a beauty salon and mom feels safe and well cared for. She has even given in to them managing her meds and doing her laundry (as long as they use her downy) :) They have activities that residents can choose to partake in or not, it is their choice. Mom loves her independence, yet having the safety of knowing that someone will be there in a flash to assist her when/if she needs. Dellwood has truly been a blessing to me as I live in Philadelphia and I don't have to worry about her living alone, I know that she is in great hands. She loves the staff and they assist her whenever she requests it. Kudos to Dellwood!

My mother is on the memory care unit and loves it. She has a key to her apartment so that she knows it is not a nursing home. That is a very important thing for her. The activities keep her engaged and she loves the choice of foods they give her. The staff is friendly and patient. This is an all inclusive senior living. To see my mother happy and healthy is so wonderful. Dellwood Gardens is allowing her to live independently while giving me the peace of mind that she is safe and assisted.

I have lived here for over 8 years now & I used to feel OK about living here--not THRILLED, mind you; just OK! Most of my negative feelings came into play after an incident with another female resident who basically assaulted me by throwing her silverware at me at close range & proceeded to curse voluminously at me. It all started because of a private exchange between myself and a kitchen worker that had already been resolved and this resident just felt compelled to "dip" into a private exchange between myself & this kitchen worker that was absolutely NONE of her business in the first place. This was all recorded on videotape and I made sure eventually that there was a case filed with the SP police dept. At this point, I consider this incident mostly resolved--except on behalf of D.G.--they did not handle what I still perceive as a serious incident w/any ramifications to be known/seen by anyone on the premises; including myself--the injured party! There is an enormous (AT ALL TIMES!) turnover of workers in the aide positions and D.G. has an inefficient & negative tendency to initially hire very young & inexperienced people; generally fresh out of NA classes, training & their certification). There are mistakes made with refilling prescriptions on time (this has happened with myself personally-more than just once) so that medications we take are always (as they always SHOULD be) available for us to take at the times prescribed by their MD. DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND MY PERSPECTIVE! There are aides (the people we deal with on a nearly daily basis) whom I genuinely care for and I have developed close & long lasting relationships with a quite a number of them---nearly like family members; but those gems are very few and far between and the aides that I feel THIS way about (most of them, anyway) have mostly been here since I arrived in July of 2018. We also have ongoing problems with mice and other types of household pests--they are quickly followed up upon & addres