Sona Senior Living

From our first visit, we knew that Autumn Leaves was the right place for my Mom. The environment is so very home-like ---- a comfortable place for my Mom and, almost as important, a comfortable place for people to visit and spend time. The sense of community from the residents, their families and the staff, is refreshing. There is also such a personal touch to the care. My Dad, my sisters and I are thankful that Autumn Leaves offers this type of living alternative. I know my Mom would feel the same way.

Carol was great. Very candid, which I appreciated. Unit is definitely dementia and Alzheimer's only. Mom won't be going there soon, as she is still able to manage her own home with help. Facility seemed pretty nice. I would go back for a closer look when I get more serious about committing.

We liked this facility very much and plan to bring our aunt there to view it when she is home in October.

My loved one, seems to like the food. The staff is very helpful. It's a smaller community, which allows better interaction between the staff, and residents.

Overall it has been a positive experience, with some growing pains. Things aren't perfect but the staff are generally responsive, professional, and taking good care of my loved one. It is a huge improvement over the previous facility we tried, which was extremely understaffed.

It's okay. The quality is comparable for the price. It's not as fancy as some of the other places, but it's affordable for the care. The best thing I like about it is they're a little low in numbers, so they spend a decent amount of time with the residents. Everybody is very nice, and my loved one is doing fine.

The Canton Regency overall is a very nice place. The nurses and staff in the community do an excellent job. We did experience a little difficulty in the management. We were not told all of the extra expenses until we were already moved in and signing the papers. We also experience a wait of two days before anyone called us back with an answer to a question. We have learned to just ask someone who works in the community for the help we need.

Autumn Leaves of Vernon Hills is a very safe an secure place for my mother. They have a good alarm system. The medical care system that they have is very good as well. Overall things are clean, but the lunch room needs to be better organized. The residents are often waiting half an hour or so for their food. Overall we are pleased, but there are a couple of things that could improve.

At the time, it suited our needs. We needed a place to move our loved one out of his house. It was fine until Covid hit. It then became very, very restrictive. He was pretty much locked down, with no visitors, and food was brought to the rooms. I know it’s what we all had to do. But I was happy to move him to another community where he could have a little more freeing of an experience. Covid aside, Canton Regency's staff was great, and the facility was beautiful.

I visited there today as an option for my dad. First floor, very musty smelling. Second floor, uneven flooring. Didn’t feel like it was a safe place for dad.

Excellent care for mild dementia, staff is not attentive to each patient’s needs as they progress.

Shenandoah is going through new management.I did not know that my loved one would be one of the first residents to move in after this transition. The transition between then and now is like night and day.They have completely replaced the staff and that has caused some concerns. Although, they seem to be hiring better candidates, he was not attended to because of lack of staff. I have called them and held meetings with them to express my concerns. They seem to be taking my suggestions into consideration and things are getting better. The facility itself is the most beautiful I have visited and I've visited several.It's very clean and I would move there based on that.They seem to be headed in the right direction now and I hope things gradually move more in the right direction.

A little shabby and no different "levels of activity for different levels of ability." No caretakers visible.

Regency meets basic needs, food is pretty good but not much fresh stuff like salads (FRESH, not out of a can). Only one security person on at night, noone at desk; rooms are spacious, clean, new carpet, and they pay for move-in. Fire security system goes off odd times and scares people to death, no generator for power outages. Many people who live here would never be considered independent outside of here. Some on oxygen, (see generator note), many on walkers, some wheelchairs. Nice that they take pets. Activities are good during week, not much on weekends or holidays. People are friendly but don't socialize that much. Monthly meetings for resident concerns. They say they will take care of issues, but don't always. Doors open all day, no sign-in or out, noone pays much attention to who is coming and going. Truly independence! Make sure thats what the person wants or needs.

My grandmother lives here in independent living so I thought I would take a tour. I stepped in human feces on the way from independent living, to the assisted side. UGH! The secure care units are nice; but only studios. Every area we went to (independent, assisted and secured) smelled like pee. the head nurse for the secure area was VERY gentle and kind; however I just don't feel the connection to providing an active lifestyle within the secured section.

At first everything was an overall star, but right now it is about a 2. We are just isolated at times due to the pandemic so the activities are still limited and the meals are just terrible. However the people that work here are absolutely wonderful and the community is very very clean. I wouldn't recommend at the moment, but definitely check back.

My father had been in Assisted Living here for five years and recently, it got so bad that we had to move him, despite how difficult it is to change at age 90. First, there has been a lot of employee turnover. Management got rid of the terrific head nurse which had been there a long time and had a real personal feel for all the residence. The nurse who had been there longest quit then. The head nurse now is a woman who spends a lot of time talking about all [removed]. When families come to consult, she puts her shoes up on the desk in their faces. The long-standing receptionist left when she was required to answer the phone by saying, "How can I make your day?" and some man provided a lewd suggestion. (Employees are still required to answer the phone this way and are written up if they are caught not including it in their greeting.) The Activities Director, who was one of the best and one of the hardest workers is currently on disability leave. She started a choir that performed at least twice a year and had well-planned activities. The choir is gone, and on a recent outing, the residents arrived to find that the director hadn’t checked and the place was closed. Previously, there were two executive directors, but one of them has been disappeared. Now nearly everything seems to be determined by one person, the current executive director. Her degree is in business from a propriety college, and yet, [removed]among others. For example, we had my father in the care of the Gerontology Department of the Cleveland Clinic, which asked the Regency to take my dad off Alzheimer's medication because after three months of testing, it was determined he did not have Alzheimer's. Their doctor doubled the medication, and the nurse informed me they did not have to take orders from the Cleveland Clinic. The Clinic said they had never had a residence refuse to co-operate with them before, but they instructed us in how to get a local doctor to give the orders, which we did. My dad did much better off medication that had nothing to do with his health. The Clinic advised us repeatedly to find another place for my father, and by the time he left, there were at least two rooms empty in every hall. It used to always be full or nearly full capacity. Whereas at the Regency, nearly everyone was in a wheelchair and they kept trying to get my dad on a walker and to keep him from walking outside when his doctors had suggested he walk every day. Now he has 42 acres of nature paths to walk and lots of activities. And he is paying $1000 less a month. I would note that the lowest level staff who did all the real work in cooking, cleaning, and assisting residents were all very sweet to my father and generally cheerful and kind which the nursing staff and administrators by and large were not. Management is the problem here. Since we left, we received a letter telling us that bills are going up 10% immediately in the middle of the year, which suggests financial problems to us. And communication problems. Apparently, they forgot we aren't even on their team any more.

Do not put your family member here! My mother prepaid for a 2 week respite. They offered service options. And assured that whenever she rang her call bell, the response time would be less than 10 minutes. We opted for a CNA to check on her every 2 hours, 24 hours a day. She’s 95. First weekend, all activities were canceled! Nothing Saturday or Sunday. Tenants were expected to sit in their rooms with nothing to do. Then for 3 nights my mother rang her call bell for assistance and no one came for over 45 minutes by which time she had pressed her medical alert medallion because she was trapped in her room in a soiled bed. We were told only one CNA was on duty in assisted-living all night, she did not check on my mother every two hours and she that was too busy to answer the call bell. We hired someone to sit with her for the next two nights at an additional cost of $[removed]a night. We took her home three days early. She wasn’t safe. Now they’re keeping her money for those 3 days!Go elsewhere

They can only handle those who are placid. If anyone gets antsy or needs extra help they either send them to the hospital and tell the hospital they can't comeback or make you hire personal caregivers because they are "so busy". She needed to be checked to see if she had an UTI. The nurses didn't do it. After 4 days, I complained so the Marketing Director took care of it. They let her get out of the building. She made it to the Fire Department and they brought her back.