American House Carpenter Senior Living

This is not the Ritz. It's a solid place for people to live who need various levels of assistance ranging from preparation of meals to more detailed attention. The rooms are pleasant and well maintained and the staff is courteous, attentive and friendly. There are activities for residents to join or attend including music, movies and religious. It's a good value.

Breakfast carryout, dinner and supper: 2 shifts = 1.5 hour per meal. Good chef, food ok, served warm, servers helpful. Have had server staffing problems. Care is from another company (Ready Care). Daily manger is good, but staff doesn't do well with Alzheimer's/Dementia clients: meals/meds not always timely. Activity director (5) had a baby in [date removed] and set schedule for activities, entertainers and videotaped exercises. Staff and residents working together to cover some activity: Bingo, trivia, & art. (Weekly entertainers scheduled). Friday Happy hour continues with snack and drinks before entertainers & supper. Holidays very good, special food, activities & entertainers scheduled.

The entertainment at this place is amazing. Today they had disco dancing from 5-7. My mom was extremely excited. She loves her place at American House. The location is close to my oldest brother and sister in law house in Saline, and also university of Michigan hospital is close by where she is obtaining care for a benign tumor.

The staff are all pretty friendly and helpful. Housekeeping does a good job keeping up on cleaning. The move in process was simple enough and my mom says that she likes the food. I would recommend this facility to others.

They lost their dinning service team so it's been a little harder for my Dad. No biggie there are staffing shortages everywhere. But could be better. Apartment sizes are good. Wish there was a bit more to do in the winter but at the price point I get it.

Im in independent living and don't have a need for care. By observation, it appears very good. The meals are VERY GOOD. They're short-staffed, so now we're getting our meals buffet style, but they took extra care of a blind resident friend, today ( her first meal w the new system). There are a lot of activities available for those who want them. This is the least expensive in the area but the quality is very good. Admin. staff is very willing to help residents and support staff as well. Everyone here works as a team. The director, activities director, housekeeping director, executive secretary AND cook, have all come to help w serving the meals because of the staffing shortage in that department. ( That's why they went to buffet style, 2 servers could not handle the 70 diners, even tho the residents were split into 2 different shifts. (21 tables, 3-4 per table; plus the 20+ residents who are getting their meals delivered.) It's a good place to be.

We have had a great experience with independent living at American House Carpenter Senior Living. The staff are friendly, and it is a safe environment for my loved one.

Mom was a resident of AH Carpenter for three months. She was accepted into independent living after facility staff 2 assessment to ensure she was a viable candidate for residence. Staff were provided all information regarding Mom's history, which included knowledge of her cognition issues and a previous APS case, which had been closed as unfounded. Within 3 weeks, we started receiving calls from executive staff saying that Mom was an "elopement risk" and wouldn't have accepted her if they'd known about the APS case. Contracted caregiving/medical provider, *** Home Health Network is HORRIBLE. Medication delivery inconsistent, no monitoring, if Mom out of her apartment, just left the med cup. Family had to call 911 when (non-medical) staff wouldn't taker seriously a medical complaint. Contracted addt'l $975/mo. caregiver services never provided! Pressured by staff to move Mom before the holidays, which we did, and AH would not refund 3 wks of Dec. rent paid. No response from AH

Poor services, inedible food, not clean or updated. I would say this place is not wheelchair accessible within apartments, not ADA compliant

American House Carpenter has been wonderful for my mother. Every time I walk into AH during lunch and dinner, it smells amazing. The executive director is always friendly and helpful with any issues you may have. I would not hesitate to recommend American House Carpenter to my friends and relatives.

Even though they are currently undergoing construction the community is very clean. We have not had first hand experience with the meals but every time we do come to visit they look great. It sees like they have different activities going on all the time, there are magic shoes, all different card games and they even bring in different speakers. Based on our experience so far we would recommend the American House community to other families.

We chose American House Carpenter Senior Living because I live in the area and it is only 15 minutes from my house. It was also the least expensive and I felt the quality was good enough for what we needed. In comparison to what is around here and what they want, it is a good value for the dollar. The apartment sizes are really nice, she is in a bungalow and she was able to fit all of her belongings in here and has a lot of storage space. She has a nice view of the courtyard from her room and the courtyard here is very pretty. I think the facilities are easy to manage and user friendly and I would recommend them.

We chose American House because of the affordability, the location, and past experience with relatives being here. The apartment sizes here are spacious. I have eaten here before COVID and the meals were very nice. Now with COVID, they are delivering the meals to the residents and everything is prepackaged. The best part about this community has been the socialization for my mother in law, and for us, they are great at keeping us informed. I would recommend.

American House is turning out to be a wonderful place for my mom. She's very social so loves being around all the people and is making a lot of friends very fast. American House has a lot of groups come in for entertainment - last night there was a Brazilian Martial Arts Group! I stopped by to watch with mom - it was so much fun! Staff is very helpful and accomodating. American House was an excellent choice for us! Thank you [name removed]from "A Place for Mom" for helping with our many questions to figure out what to do, where to start and where to look! I really appreciate you :)