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Goddard House

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Goddard House

Goddard House Assisted Living in Brookline is committed to providing residents with a healthful, stimulating lifestyle and the perfect recipe of services delivered with the kindness and compassion that inspired its founding over a century ago. This vibrant and innovative community offers both traditional assisted living and memory care in an exquisite setting just outside of the city, along Boston’s Emerald Necklace park system.

Goddard House offers Brookline area seniors a unique environment including an art gallery, urban farming project featuring vegetable and herb gardens, chicken coop and bee hives, and Olmsted Place Memory Support Neighborhood. Goddard House embraces the aging experience for seniors living in the Boston area by operating a high-quality assisted living community and by creating innovative programs which support our need for purpose, engagement, autonomy and choice as we age.

Goddard House Assisted Living and Memory Support in Brookline is a not-for-profit organization serving elders in Massachusetts for more than 160 years and has been at the forefront of serving the needs of older adults in the Boston area since 1849 when it opened the first private, nonprofit home for elders in Massachusetts.

We serve local seniors throughout Brookline, MA as well Newton, and the abutting Boston neighborhoods of...

Senior living options offered

  • Assisted Living
  • Memory Care

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2 out of 10
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1.5
Cleanliness
3.5
Friendliness
3.5
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2.5
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4.0
Meals & Dining
1.0
Activities
3.5
Value for Cost
1.5

A Place for Mom has scored Goddard House with 2 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 0 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Goddard House has 3 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 1.5 out of 5.

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Sadie

Assisted Living

Family/friend

September 9, 2024

1.0 out of 5 stars
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4.0
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Board, administration and management co are a nightmare!

Loved one lived at Goddard for many years. I agree with other reviewer, Goddard could be so much more for their residents, but their board structure and outside management company are out of date in business or non-profit practices. While there, we saw a gastrointestinal virus spread throughout the whole community from their kitchen to which leadership was slow to respond. Many bathrooms are outdated and have resulted in resident accidents. Agree, executive director changed 4 times, head of nursing 3 and head chef 4 times. This place is running on an old reputation and needs better oversight. The head of marketing is terrific if you are on the wait list but once you move in, expect nothing. Favoritism is ramped and starts with their board chair. Look elsewhere; save yourself heaps of problems.

John

Assisted Living

Family/friend

February 14, 2024

3.0 out of 5 stars
Cleanliness
5.0
Friendliness
5.0
Value for Cost
2.0
Care Services
3.0
Activities
3.0
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5.0
Meals & Dining
1.0

Worst administration I’ve experienced

My mother has been here now for several years and if I could afford to move her I would. The stars are for the wonderful caregivers- they get a 5, and it’s why my mom is happy there. The families on the other hand are incredibly frustrated. My mother moved in and we received no welcome packet- neither of us. There was not a single meeting with my mother or me after she moved in ever. reaching the head nurse to set up an appt was impossible. Why? Who knows. The turnover of the directors and the head nurses are annual- this director has lasted 2 years, but she is the 4th in 5? 6? Years. We can’t even keep up with their names! The AM receptionist is great, but none of the others know what’s going on day to day- not the support groups, hair stylist, et -how do you not know who is coming in the facility each day, or their schedules? the director doesn’t even know! NO Mediterranean diet. Pizza. Turkey tetrazzini. Wings. & tons of sugar from morn to eve. It used to be great 10 yrs ago

anonymous

Memory Care

Toured community

April 25, 2022

0.5 out of 5 stars
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The tour itself and the follow-up paperwork was a nightmare.

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