Nursing Homes community - Brookdale Riverwalk

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About This Community

Brookdale Riverwalk, formerly known as Glenwood Gardens, is a senior living community in Bakersfield, California that provides everything from independent living to skilled nursing care. The community is the culmination of a mission to provide the best possible care for its residents, whether they want to live independently or require assisted living, require memory care, or skilled nursing.

The community’s staff encourage residents to maintain a full and healthy life, in part by helping them keep up with favorite hobbies or engaging them in new ones. The community offers various levels of support tailored to individual residents and developed with help from residents’ families, doctors, and therapists.

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Costs at Brookdale Riverwalk are charged on a monthly basis, similar to paying a lease on an apartment. Monthly fees include the price of housing, meals, housekeeping, transportation, and a host of community amenities including a pool, gym and library and a full calendar of activities and events.

Several financial support options are available to residents depending on their individual circumstances. Staff support to help residents sell their homes is also available, and Elderlife Financial provides low-cost bridging options to support the initial move to Brookdale Riverwalk For veterans and their spouses, veterans’ benefits can help cover monthly costs.

Amenities

Brookdale Riverwalk provides a variety of amenities within each apartment and for the community as a whole. Each home within the community includes a living and sleeping area, private bathroom with shower, patio access, kitchen with full-size refrigerator and microwave, and basic cable TV.

The community’s facilities are designed to foster a communal feel and promote its residents’ physical and mental health. Residents have access to the community’s heated pool, along with high-speed Internet in the Center for Learning, a garden terrace and an outdoor dining patio. Meals are cooked fresh and served up in the community’s dining room, with a range of menu choices offered daily.

Never a Dull Day

Residents are encouraged to become full members of the community, both within Brookdale Riverwalk and the surrounding Bakersfield community. Onsite, residents can take part in everything from board games and puzzles to Tai Chi, water aerobics, and Wii bowling alongside organized movies nights and happy hours. Staff typically organizes several group outings each week to local shopping centers, restaurants and churches.

A Focus on Memory Care

While Brookdale Riverwalk caters to a wide range of senior health needs, it is best known for the care it provides to residents with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. These residents live in a secure care wing where they receive extra support and take part in daily, organized activities aimed at maintaining memory and boosting brain health.

The community’s “Mind Body Awareness Club” is an integral part of this program. The focus on care for cognitive impairments makes this community ideal for seniors with dementia or other memory impairments requiring extra support.

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Reviews

4.7 ( 3 Reviews )

Olga

September 23, 2021

I really like Brookdale Riverwalk at Calloway Drive in Bakersville, but when I went to visit their skilled nursing, they said they were not taking any long-term care patients right now because of COVID. It was kind of empty because they would prefer to take people who are there temporarily and are recuperating from surgery. As far as long-term care goes, they're not taking any new patients right now. It was a good place, though, and I liked it. That's the only place I really have gone to see. I first visited their assisted living in July. Last Monday, I visited their skilled nursing. I liked it very much. If there would have been an opening, I would have gladly put my husband there. It's clean and the people are friendly. They're just not taking anyone for long-term care right now. I was disappointed because it's close to us and it's right off the freeway, so it would have been perfect. The staff was very friendly and very nice. They made sure I got a COVID test before I visited, which was good. It is something that would have benefited my husband. The facility itself is very nice and very well kept. The environment is very friendly. You see a lot of senior citizens because they have apartments there and people live there. I know they have different levels of care too.

Patti

March 06, 2021

My mom moved into the memory care of Brookdale Riverwalk. It was a good experience, from the administrator all the way down to the staff members. I have met several of them, and I have been in close contact with the administrator of the memory care, Martha. They have answered all of our questions, and they have offered safe visiting for family members during COVID. They have individual designated spaces where you can bring your family, and they have appointments for these times, so it's not overrun in the facility. They have so many activities, and the activity director sends out calendars that let you know exactly what they are eating. They had that online, and if they see that the patient is not tolerating the food, they immediately check with the doctor to see if they can change them to a different type of diet. It's really been a good experience. My mom is a picky eater, and she has a denture issue, so they switched her to puree, and she's eating it just as well as regular food. She enjoys her food. I have seen her with juice and some snacks, and then her dinner. It's worth every penny that my parents have put aside to take care of it.

Visitor108003050

March 20, 2015

Dad was already there in the skilled nursing, so it was really easy to transition him. He chose this community because he likes it which made a big difference and since we want him to be somewhere he likes. The food is good, and the staff is nice. It’s one of the few places that will never turn you away of you run out of money. They won’t take you out of the community for that, but if you are already a resident, they will keep you there for the rest of your life. We felt very comfortable with that because we don’t she will end up running out of money. He had been to several skilled nursing facilities for the last five years and she said that’s the one place he wanted to go and he liked it there. They have nice grounds, it feel safe.