American Senior Communities

My comment would be: Assisted Living is ok if your loved one doesn't need any individualized attention to their needs and has minimal dementia behaviors. Memory Care is an absolute disaster unless your patient is placid and docile. The limited staff and administrators have no tolerance, training, or understanding for falls or advanced dementia behaviors. If you love them, find a more suitable facility at the beginning rather than risk getting "dumped" when your family member needs care most.

Hopefully new ownership, new management, new caregivers will improve everything. I haven't seen improvements yet so at the moment we would not recommend this community to other families.

Beech Grove Meadows and Garden Homes is slow to respond to maintenance issues. It took 3 months to fix a shower valve, missing backsplash and two weeks to get a trash collection can. Mom wants to look for another place to live. Turnover of helpers has been an on-going issue here. The maintenance crew it not good at following up or resolving problems. They lack basic skills. They over-promised and under-delivered which is common.

The tour guide was cold and she didn't interact with the residents during the tour. The community felt dark.

Anthology's staff was not very friendly and the person we set up a tour with was a no show and no one else was available for us. We did not go back after being turned away.

I was not impressed with this facility at all. The appearance was between a Nursing home and a hospital. Wheelchairs were everywhere...in the halls. There is not enough room in the actual patient rooms to keep the wheelchairs inside the rooms. Patients have to share rooms and there is just a curtain separating the patients.....yes patients. It was set up more like a hospital than a home. I would not want to live in a hospital. It just seemed like a place to warehouse the elderly.

My dad died as a result of a fall in their parking lot. If it hadn’t been for a kitchen worker going out for a smoke, god knows how long he would have been lying in that parking lot. They are all happy happy when they lure you in- even using their residents singing to a pianist to seal the deal. They can only handle the elderly that don’t need much assistance beyond a substantial meal

Area too congested.

After visiting this facility with my wife, as my father in law is currently a resident there, I can't believe how dirty it is, how bad it stinks, what they serve as food, and how difficult it is to reach someone if there is a problem. I see reviews that employees of the facility have posted, but they are not the ones that are being held [Removed] and treated like third class citizens. Horrible place.

I had a decent tour of this facility. The staff was friendly and nice. The appearance of the community could had looked better. The cleanliness of the facility could use some improvements. It was not the community for us.

Everything looked very nice on the tour, but the level of service once you move in doesn't live up to what they presented. There appear to be issues with staff turnover, and they seem understaffed in general. Based on our experience I would not recommend Zionsville Meadows.

Too much of a nursing home feel.

This facility is old and needs updated. Most activities take place in the dining room, as the public areas are small/non-existent. Had an odor.

Received literature and did visit, but did not feel it was a good fit. Seemed out dated, not very appealing facilities either.

We did not have a great experience at this community. It is very large, and the care felt unfocused and impersonal. It was hard to get in touch with the management, and i general they were just rude and mean. It was obviously just a job to them, and they weren't treating the residents like human beings, just bits of paperwork for them to manage.

It's very deceiving, it's a beautiful place, very nicely done. I think it's false propaganda, once you get over to the Alzheimers, memory care side. They make it seem like if you start in Assisted living you can get into the memory care side, but they pick and choose who they want to take. They have no idea how to deal with Alzheimers and dementia patients. Their rehab, isn't any good, they over-medicated, or gave the wrong medication. This caused falls, mostly because they didn't want my loved one to get up and move, more than the ten or fifteen minutes that they can bill you for that is considered therapy. Other than that they want you in the bed or a chair. It's supposed to be rehab, they need to move. The communication is awful. The director doesn't return phone calls, the employees don't even follow the directors orders. Just a bad experience.

An older community; independent living "garden homes" need a lot of remodeling and repairs. Maintenance dept. very small, and response to resident's maintenance needs is very poor. Administrative staff not readily available for the independent level of care residents. Frequent turn over of manager position. Cost is very reasonable, but I feel service and buildings need a lot of improvement.

They seemed disorganized. The Weekend Nursing manager showed me around but she didn't know what was or wasn't avaiable in the Independent Living - only the assisted living area. Maintanence needed to be done to the apts shown.

It is a beautiful facility, the ladies at the front desk were very nice and management was very nice. However, the lady in charge of management just had way to much on her plate and was not able to oversee everything going on within the community. Some nurses were great, and some were not. It also seemed like the nurses were kind of just running wild. During the couple of months our loved one was there, it took a month for house keeping to come and clean, when they were supposed to be doing it weekly. Sometimes the entire bed would be changed, and other times only half the bed would be changed, and the food they served was just average.

The guide was smart and answered my questions. I had a bad experience in the community during my tour. There were people walking their pets in the carpets i thought this was unsanitary. The memory care area had a really strong odor throughout the whole area. The staff weren't engaging with the residents, some of the residents were just looking down and sitting on their chairs. I was not impressed at all with this place.