Great place for independent living, however they preach you never have to leave, but if you move from independent living to continuing care...buyer beware. There is not enough room in the assisted living, memory care or long term care for their residents. My mom needed to move into continuing care back in December. Just a little dementia, but no physical issues. We released her IL appt, only to find there was no place for her to go, so they kept her in skilled nursing, which she didn't need. The monthly fee for skilled nursing is $12000 month. That's what you'll pay until they have an opening for assisted living, which we were told could be 2-3 months. They didn't tell us that until we released her apt. Everything went downhill from there and we eventually moved her out. Best decision we made. Buyer beware. 5000 independent residents and 40 long term care beds. Do the math. Long term care at Mill Vista was Not a good choice.

So many wonderful things about this community! But they have made changes to the food program in the last 12 to 18 months that have resulted in a huge decline in quality, portions, and menu options. The food program is mandatory whether you use it or not, thus there is no incentive to improve. The food was really good when my parents first moved in. Now they feel they are flushing too much money down the toilet to stay there. Residents are very unhappy, and no one is listening. You need to carefully compare dining programs and the food quality when evaluating options!

We like Wind Crest a lot. It's very huge and very nice, but the costs were problematic to us. The staff is great. They provide great food. There are so many activities, it's amazing. The social aspect of it, I think, I would get a very high rating. They have a swimming pool and a garden. They also have a lot of music and a lot of internal groups or bands.

Wind Crest is brilliant. It is clean, and the staff is wonderful. But I can’t put my parents there because my father has dementia. All of these facilities are clean and wonderful, except that father will not go eat there. He doesn’t like to be in public.. I can’t even take him to a restaurant. It’s a beautiful facility.

Wind Crest is a buy-in; it doesn’t give you the opportunity to try the surroundings and the situation until you made a major commitment, and I’m a little concerned that it was growing so big. It’s almost a city into itself. There was a warm, large facility, general feeling when you walk in the front door.

This is a beautiful facility for worry free retirement. There is independent living as will as assisted living, skilled nursing, rehab and memory care. The location is convenient and the apartments are spacious. When my wife fell and broke her leg we pulled the emergency cord in our room and the EMT arrived in about 3 minutes and provided excellent care. Why 3 stars? Our apartment building was constructed with wood. Although we hear no noise from adjoining rooms there is the constant sound of footsteps from above that shakes our apartment. We did not expect this to be a problem in new construction. The other area of disappointment in my opinion is the food. I have heard from many longtime residents that the food used to be much better. I have asked if maybe it just seems that way like how we often talk about the good old days but they assure me things have changed and not for the better. After 11 months I have seen filet mignon maybe 4 times, lobster tail once, scallops one time, oysters (not very plump) twice, lamb chops or rack of lamb never. The menu in the main dining room changes daily but rotates on a schedule and becomes repetitive. The more "upscale" dining option menu is fairly limited and static with occasional item changes and one daily special. The meal plan included in the monthly fee forces you to eat at least 20 meals a month in these restaurants or forfeit the money. At this price level we expected better. In fact when we came to evaluate Wind Crest we ate braised lamb shanks and seared sea scallops to rival the finest restaurants. There is a new steakhouse "opening soon" that is supposed to be more upscale but we heard that back in 2015. I will be posting pictures of food served on Yelp.com so you can judge for yourself at https://www.yelp.com/biz/windcrest-retirement-community-littleton

I liked the apartments at Wind Crest and its amenities. They seemed to be interested in possible residents. The place was clean, shiny, and bright. The rooms were big, bright, and airy with lots of windows.

Wind Crest was very beautiful and quite expensive. You tend to buy into it, but you can get 90% back and still have monthly fees. It had everything imaginable in quite a few buildings with everything covered with closed-in walkways, so you don’t have to go outside if you don’t want to. Its dining rooms were very upscale.

Wind Crest has a nice restaurant, and the entire facility is large. It just felt more like you are in a resort than in God’s waiting room, so to speak. The residents are probably in their 70s and 80s, but they’re still very healthy, and they were active. The facility is very clean, very bright, very active.

It was very nice. Wind Crest would be a great option although it was priced fairly high. The staff was extremely friendly. The rooms were spacious, very clean, and pretty impressive. The dining room looked clean and very well presented, and it was a very nice place to eat. The food smelled wonderful, and it looked good. There seemed to be quite a lot of staff that would take care of the residents. We saw classes like painting and a book club, and there were people playing volleyball in the pool. That was a premier place we looked at and would like, but it was out of our range.

I'm not old enough for Wind Crest. We probably would've moved into that one right away if I was old enough. You have to be 62. My husband is old enough, but I'm not yet. Everything was really nice. They just built a new building, so there are units available there now. Everything is clean, neat, and nice, and there are doctors on-site.

We have seen Wind Crest for the last five years. We talked to the people and decided it was a good place. I could not have any of the regular food because I had Celiac Disease. They had a staff in the kitchen that specifically prepared gluten-free food. Most of the places I checked did not have this and I needed gluten-free food only.