Belmont Village San Jose

It's been a good place for my father who has cognitive decline. The staff takes good care of the residents and they are very positive people. The food is very good. The apartments are spacious. He does wish there were better programs. The same single musicians come which gets old for him. The card games are attended only by women so He ends up spending a lot of time in his room.

The Belmont organization provided everything we needed to move our mom quickly into her new home. We were introduced to a moving company who took care of all the moving in details, including helping me arrange the room and hang pictures. The kind and caring staff took our mom in the morning, integrating her immediately into her Circle of Friends group while we moved her things. She was doing so well on that day that we were able to show her her room, all set up and ready, before we left. We waited the suggested 3-4 days before returning to check on her to find she had quickly made many friends, was smiling, laughing and in general really ejpnjoying herself. It has now been 3 months as I write this review that she moved in. I'm very pleased to report all is going well beyond my hopes. I am thrilled with the level of attention and care she is receiving. A huge relief to me and my family members

Belmont Village was absolutely wonderful. Out of five I would give them five and a half. She was very well cared for and happy there. The staff here were exemplary. We didn't have any concerns at all.

Our mom has been a resident at Belmont San Jose since the New Year. She was on an unusual, rapid decline of dementia from presumably Alzheimer's that even had her doctors scratching their heads at her situation. The task of finding "a place for mom" suddenly became a top priority above all other things during Christmas 2014. Our very stressful situation turned into plesant surprise when upon evaluation, by the very qualified folks at Belmont San Jose, they acknowledged her advanced, declined state, but decided her personality and personal determination we're going to be a good fit into the Circle of Friends community. Our research, provided largely in part by 'A Place for Mom' .com, showed the Belmont communities as having the most proactive and effective approach to treating and handling persons with dementia. I'm happy to report i wholeheartedly agree. Memory care residents are intermingled with regular residents (not locked down). They have PALS who keep an eye on their coming and goings. They are proactively gathered into daily activities (work as my mom calls it) to exercise their bodies and their minds. Our family unanimously agrees she is happier and healthier since her transition into the Belmont community.

We toured this community when we were searching for care options for our loved one. Belmont Village San Jose was a nice looking place, overall! The we spoke to seemed friendly, and the facility was clean and well kept.

Peggy, Scott, Jose and the entire team of people in service at the Belmont San Jose are caring, energetic, and up-beat. We couldn't be more pleased at how they transitioned our mom on move in day. No tears. All smiles.

We toured this community when we were looking into care options for a loved one. I thought this was a nice looking place overall. I liked the fact that the memory care patients are not kept isolated from everyone else, and that the community is all just one connected building so you can't get lost.

They are okay. I think for most people they are fine. We are having a difficult time getting adjusted. It's clean and the staff is friendly. But the communication among the staff, and with the family is not that good. We don't hear about a lot of things, or we hear about them really late. I think my loved one's condition has declined since coming here. When we first came and toured they seemed to be much more organized, now it seems like no one has any answers. If we ask a question they take forever to get back to us, and they have to check with this person or that person. I am just not very impressed.

I'm very happy with it. Three factors that I chose it for. First they had an open spot. Second, the place is clean and doesn't smell like an institution. 3. I didn't get a lot of marketing pressure. Everyone I talked to including the residents were very friendly. Finally this place is fifteen miles from my house. My mother says they always keep me busy. The only thing I don't care for is that there are only two elevators, which makes it hard if there are five or six wheelchairs. This means that there is often a line to use the elevators. The rooms are nice. They are very accommodating. I was even allowed to borrow a bed, while we were moving her in. They helped me get bedding for her. The carpets are new, with no stains. The place feels good.

This is an amazing facility and Peg Bulger is a tremendous asset. Thank you for this recommendation.

On the value – it costs a lot – so it’s hard to rate – just going on the cost – I’d have to give them a three. They have a great memory care program. They divide ‘circle of friends’ activities to cognitive levels – this is one of the reasons we chose this community.

Great for Mom, but too expensive. We'd burn through Mom's remaining savings too quickly.

Belmont Village has been great. I rated the activities just a little bit lower because I think they could maybe use some better variety. Perhaps, something more intellectually stimulating - such as having speakers come in. Although they do have lots of BINGO and Bunko. Also, the food is excellent! We eaten there several times, and they have a good variety with healthy choices.

Visited on November 22. Very much like Belmont Sunnyvale. Very nice. Like Belmont Sunnyvale it has a Circle of Friends program. Caregivers seem dedicated; residents look to be happy. A negative--perhaps a big negative--not much in the way of outdoor space. There are no gardens to speak of. Mother, I think, would miss this sort of thing greatly. They do have availability.

The overall care is very good. They have good activites. They do outings and crafts, exercise classes and things like that. My parents say the food is good too.

My mother moved in here a few weeks ago. Sadly, it wasn't a good fit for her. It is a lovely facility with very friendly staff. The rooms are bright and airy. The staff is helpful and go out of their way to help. The food is delicious. Unfortunately, we couldn't make this work. My mother has dementia and is very active. She was on their memory care floor which was nice, but is not a locked community. A large part of the day is spent sitting in classes or sitting while doing activities which most residents enjoy. My mother is VERY active and hated all the sitting. She didn't like them telling her she couldn't do what she wanted, so she kept trying to leave. Belmont Village isn't really equiped to handle that, so we had to pay for a one-on-one assistant. That got to be very expensive, and the constant supervision made my mom even more upset. By the time we moved her out, we had spent thousands of dollars to try to make this work. This is a great dementia care community if your loved one is not going to try to leave, and they are pretty calm. It is expensive, so be sure you really think about how they will act once they cannot come and go as they please (if they are on the dementia care floor.) Will they stay with the group? Do they like to sit or are they constantly active? Do you have money to pay for extra care if needed? Consider these things before you move here.

We placed my mother in Belmont Village of San Jose and we have been very happy with them. There have been a few glitches, I mean, people are people and its not like she's the only person they have to take care of but overall they're doing an excellent job and mom is well cared for.

It's a couple grand more a month but you end up with organic food which is appealing. They have happy hour every afternoon. There's a point where you're not getting much more for your money but luxury, chandeliers and things. The price is variable but the rooms are not all the same so you could pay less but you'd be in a tiny, dinky little room.

We'll be checking in to Belmont Village of San Jose on August 4th. Right now we're taking out things over and moving in to our suite. It looks like they've got a lot of activities. They have yoga and chair aerobics. The food has been excellent. We chose this community for the location. It's close to everything.

Belmont Village is a great community. It has a high rise hotel setting to it and everything is accessible via elevator. It is about 7 or 8 stories and parking is underneath. It is a really nice community. We did not choose this community because it seemed like it just wasn't the right place for our mom. Our mom is more of a smaller setting type of woman; she enjoys her quiet time and is not as active as the residents here. If she was more active and was always on the go we would have chose this community. They do take residents from memory care unit and if they are active enough they will let them participate with the assisted living residents so it really provides socialization at all levels. The program they have that does this is called Circle of Friends. Overall it is a very nice community and was just a little too active for our mom.