We really enjoy living in a Casita with an attached garage. It is very roomy and accommodates wheelchairs and walkers very well.
Hospitable staff, modern amenities, and cozy community spaces will make you feel right at home at MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge in Peoria, Arizona. Explore 23,000 acres of nature at Lake Pleasant Regional Park, where you can walk on trails, camp, kayak, boat, fish, and even scuba dive. Enjoy museums, trails, shopping, and dining in Peoria, or familiarize yourself with MorningStar’s beautiful, landscaped campus.
Embark on a lifestyle journey of community, comfort, and wellness at MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge.
They offer assisted living, independent living, and memory care. Other health care services include ambulatory care, incontinence care, diabetic care, on-site hospice, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and more. Friendly staff is available to assist you with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming. Transportation is available to and from activities.
Exercise in the fitness center, then relax your muscles in the pool or jacuzzi. Enjoy arts and crafts, movies in the theater room, and games with friends. Stay motivated with stretching classes, yoga, and forever fit programing, and branch out with art classes, cooking, and wine tasting. Gather friends for karaoke night, Wii Bowling, live dance, musical, and theater performances, and more.
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Total monthly costs depend on room type, select services, and the level of care needed.
*Prices quoted are monthly rental charges and are provided by the communities themselves. Actual prices may differ due to one-time fees, timing and care services required. Speak with your Senior Living Advisor to learn more.
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We really enjoy living in a Casita with an attached garage. It is very roomy and accommodates wheelchairs and walkers very well.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
May 22, 2024Hi Dale, thank you so much for sharing your positive experience us! We're thrilled to hear that the space is meeting your needs and providing the accessibility you require. Your feedback is truly appreciated and we hope you continue to enjoy your time with us.
MorningStar at Golden Ridge is poorly managed, but we have a great casita with an attached garage and the food is mostly good. The employees are stretched thin and over worked, but they mostly get the job done.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
April 26, 2024We are pleased that you are enjoying your casita! The Casita Village at MorningStar at Golden Ridge is an excellent option for those looking for an active senior community. Every effort is made to serve with excellence. We are strengthening culinary services with new leadership in the kitchen and dining room. Every department holds the team accountable to meet needs throughout our campus, with leaders working in front-line positions, whenever necessary. We accommodate flexible schedules, building a culture that encourages as it empowers. While we respect your anonymity, Executive Director Kerri would welcome a conversation and the opportunity to adjust her leadership to better serve you. Thank you!
Staff very considerate and helpful. Community health staff very good and ready to help when needed to coordinate with emergency transport when needed.. The only real change to consider after speaking with my in-laws, who are residents at the community would be to broaden the dinner menus. Don’t need fancy things like shrimp and scallop linguine more of the basics. Maybe mix a little more pork and beef dishes. The age group was raised on what we call comfort food.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
April 1, 2024Julie, thank you for your positive feedback and valuable suggestions for improvement. We appreciate your kind words about our considerate and helpful team. We will definitely take your feedback into consideration regarding the dinner menus and work on incorporating more comfort food options. Thank you for choosing our community!
The best thing about the facility itself is the open concept at the entry. It is more like a cruise ship with lots of windows - bright and airy. The dining room is open continuously until 630pm and not closed off like other places. It is a very pleasant environment. The only downside is that, like a lot of places, there is a lot of staff turnover and some care givers are better than others. Overall, however, the atmosphere is very positive and the residents seem to get along together.
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Everyone is welcoming and kind. We did experience a few speed bumps when my mom first moved in, but those seem to have been resolved. Typically, when I bring an issue to someone's attention, they will address it quickly.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
February 22, 2024Thank you so much for your kind review! We are grateful you chose MorningStar and are so honored to serve your mom!
The meals are very good quality and I like that the café is open all day rather than specific hours. They also get to know the residents very well. Like a lot of places, I think they are sometimes understaffed, but overall they are fairly responsive. However, I would encourage all family members to stay very aware of the promised services and make sure they are being delivered. Sometimes they do not get to my mom's needs on a scheduled day.
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The staff seemed attentive. The environment was clean and welcoming. The price was affordable for a good range of services
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
August 30, 2023There is nothing like words of affirmation to spur us on toward even more love and goodness. Thank you for that gift!
Our family had an in person tour with MorningStar Senior Living and we really liked it. It was actually my first choice of the properties we toured at the time, but Mom did not like the open closet/walkway into bathroom. The tour was great, but it was too much for her and she had to keep stopping to rest, giving her the impression she would not be able to maneuver the hallways. Then someone at church told her it was a bad neighborhood, and that was the last straw for her.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
June 12, 2023Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are encouraged to redouble our efforts in helping each senior find his or her best life!
I was very grateful for how efficiently we were able to get my mom settled on short notice. The staff has been great. Staff communicated could improve a bit. I do think communication could improve. I usually have to find the nurse etc to find out how things are going. Recently my mom fell again so back to hospital and rehab. We haven't gone back to morning star yet, but now I believe her care will need to be elevated, so we will see how that goes. I did feel like we would have heard from them more during her hospital and rehab stay. I had to let them know how she was doing.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
April 19, 2023Thank you for the praises extended. We regret reading of your disappointment in our communication and will strive to redouble our efforts. Thank you!
This place is amazing! My loved one LOVES their new apartment there and raves about the food. Everyone there including staff, residents, and visitors. Have recommended it several times already. Honestly from what I have seen they are doing it all really well. They have lots of activities that they publish to residents and have posted on several spots. The food is another. It is served in a dining area that is operated like a restaurant with nice linens and is ordered from a menu. Nothing is institutional many other places have.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
January 20, 2023How wonderful to hear such words of affirmation. Our great thanks for taking the time to pen your heart-warming experience at MorningStar.
We love all the windows and natural light. The staff is wonderful and we love that it is a faith based community. My brother is also in memory care and we recommended it to a friend.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
December 19, 2022We live for praises like these…ones that give testimony to our aspiration to serve with distinction for the sake of love. Thank you!
This was a beautiful and newer community. They wanted to place our loved one in memory care immediately and the family didn't fell that this is what our loved one would need. The off campus activities were limited to the number of spaces available in the van.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
October 3, 2022Thank you so much for stopping by! Please reach out with any further questions or needs.
So far things are going well and I am seeing some improvements with my dad. The staff and the residents are all very friendly. Every time I visit they have something going on activities wise. My dad does like the food that is served. I would most definitely recommend MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge to other families. It is a very well - managed facility.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
October 3, 2022Life at MorningStar is an invitation to “more”…more connection, more vibrancy, more love. Thank you for affirming our success in this.
I've already expressed with others how great MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge is! I love their caretakers, they make you feel like you're part of a family. They talk to their patients like they're part of that family too. I would describe their communication as average. It'd be nice if they mailed me the bill earlier in the month, right now I receive it two days before it's due. I realize most of the residents families live in Arizona and I don't. As far as the office staff, I wish they were more responsive and quicker to respond. I've left messages and had to call back the next day because I hadn't heard anything. As for the staff who takes care of them, they're great.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
September 21, 2022Thank you! You have testified to the love that we feel so deeply for our resident-seniors. We are building family for life, and your words of praise endorse that fact.
Morning Star was in my top 5, but when it got down to the dollars and cents a lot of undiscussed amenities made their way into the total rent. Too expensive.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
August 17, 2022We regret our rates did not accommodate your budget (though we do have a “financial concierge” that can help families with ways to finance retirement living). Please reach out with any further questions or needs. Thanks!
It was awesome a very beautiful place, it was like a 5 star hotel. It was the best out of all that we had seen overall. The room was very nice that she was in, she has passed now but she had a great experience in her time there.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
July 26, 2022Thank you so much for the kind words. We consider it a sacred honor to serve those who taught the rest of us how to live. And we are so sorry for your loss, may God heal you, strengthen you and bless you.
Our family had an in person tour and the tour lady [name removed] was just awesome and so lovely to speak with. However the community is quite large and spread out that our loved one had to take breaks during the tour so we just didn't think it would work out because of the size. This would of been our first choice, it was a great tour experience
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
June 2, 2022You have testified to the love we feel for our resident-seniors, and to our chief ambition to serve as a trusted resource. By your words of praise, we are encouraged to redouble our efforts in helping each senior find his or her best life.
The staff members have been so great to work with they really make it feel like home and they do their absolute best to keep our loved one comfortable and healthy. Our loved one absolutely loves the meals and dining service. We loved it right away it was a first great impression and a great choice. The community is beautiful and new and our loed one has able to bring their dog in finally!
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June 2, 2022So good of you to take the time to write these encouraging words. We consider it a sacred honor to serve those who taught the rest of us how to live.
I love that I have my own garage and washer and dryer, that is a huge plus. I do understand the struggles with the staffing shortages so it is not entirely their fault, but they could work to improve on the quality of the meals and the repetitiveness.
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Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
March 31, 2022Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! We appreciate your candid feedback as we strive for excellence at MorningStar.
They don't care. They are not in the business of caring. All they want is your $6500/month. They know that after all the emotional heart ache and all that you have gone through to find a care facility, you will most likely not go through the pain of moving your loved one out once they are there. [name removed], Regional VP of Sales is no better than a used car salesman. Director of Community Relations, [name removed] is a complete idiot who has no advanced formal education nor degree in adult aging. I received emails from her with no subject line or text in the message box after I made a complaint about her. I believe this was her way of attempting to intimidate and/or harass me. I made a complaint to the Corporate office, which is is no easy matter to contact them directly. It has been 2 years and I have still not heard back from them. They don't care because they are not in the business of caring.
Response from MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge
March 31, 2022It pains us to hear of the disappointment you experienced two years ago. In researching, we do not find record of your visiting our community then. But would appreciate the chance to make a fresh start. Executive Director, [name removed] would welcome an opportunity to connect; please reach out to her at: 623.500.4300. We wish you the best.
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MorningStar Senior Living at Golden Ridge has received an average review rating of 4 based on 37 reviews. See all reviews.
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