West Fork Village

I am an 80 yr old single female and have lived here 4 years. It is the PERFECT place for retirement living as your monthly rent covers ALL expenses such as rent, utilities, 3 meals each day, bus drop off for doctor appointments/Kroger/Walmart, etc., apartment cleaning, washer/dryer available for use on each floor, several pre-planned parties, etc. Many residents to visit with daily! AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, The new General Manager is FANTASTIC and will graciously listen to you and work with you to fix any issue you may have. I strongly encourage you to consider West Fork Village as your permanent retirement home!

Worst place i have lived! I got bitten by spiders constantly. Their was always 2-3 inches of dust everywhere. I tried to keep the dust away but it didn't ever work. Their a/c system was broken alot. My dogs & I were sick almost all the time. In that main building: nasty soiled carpet on the floor with stains. The chairs were dirty & peeling because they are so old. The food is worse than military food I ate and the portions were always small. You could never go back for seconds. The van will only go 5 miles from Westfork. People would soil the carpet with their dogs and themselves. It always smelled bad everywhere. The current managers attitude was, "well old people just come here to die because they can't afford anywhere else." Roosters & chickens run loose from backyard of neighbors. Alot of stray cats running around because some residents there think cats should run wild. The electricity would go out and take a long time to return. One time is was out, in the heat of summer, for 13 hrs. Right after I moved in, people were trying to break into my place. It was being used as a drug house. Their was a drug riddled building in the yard until I insisted management remove it. More than once, people would show up & try to break in with a key that didn't work. Once they heard my dogs barking, they left. Don't put your loved one here, you will regret it!

This location is a hidden gem among retirement communities. We only had a couple weeks experience with the Assisted Living side of the facility, but the Independent Living side is absolutely excellent. My aunt only got to live there for a little less than a year before passing away, but she loved it there. The residents were very friendly and so were the staff. They really made the place feel like home. There were even members of the staff that came and attended my aunt's funeral. Josh and some of the other staff feel like family. I ate lunch and dinner with her frequently, and the meals were always pretty good. The place had regular field trips and events, the expense of which was included with the rent. The location is in a reasonably safe part of town, near several churches and Krogers, and so on. West Fork was particularly helpful in aiding us as my aunt's health rapidly declined. It was almost effortless to transition her from independent to assisted living, without too huge a change in price. I felt they did their best to meet all her needs right to the point where she needed a level of medical care that only a full hospital could provide. Irving in general has quite a lot to do for a small not-quite-suburb of Dallas that seniors would enjoy. The Senior Community Center has a very nice pool and the city's libraries are great. The bu system (and the transportation provided by West Fork) make everything accessible. It was an entirely positive experience.