[Name removed] explained without selling, food is well balanced and good, move in went smoothly with 7 friends and two professional movers. The front office staff, including [name removed], are very attentive. I recommended one friend who moved in, working on several others. Maintenance staff solved several problems. Friendly and helpful tenants. After a year of looking, Solstice Senior Living at Guilford is just right for us.... Read more
Solstice Senior Living at Guilford boasts an 80-acre campus filled with New England Beauty that lies close to adventure throughout New Haven’s attraction-filled landscape. Designed to simplify residents’ responsibilities and create relaxed, carefree lifestyles, this independent living community offers a variety of services including on-site personal care, 24-hour access to urgent care through telehealth services, scheduled transportation, weekly housekeeping, and urgent call systems for emergencies.
In the restaurant-style dining room, residents can choose from a resident-inspired menu that’s been approved by a dietitian and freshly prepared by the community’s culinary team.
Between meals, residents can participate in an array of regularly scheduled activities, explore the surrounding area, or enjoy one of the on-site amenities that include an internet café, library, media room, fitness center, and more.
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Total monthly costs depend on room type, select services, and the level of care needed.
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A Place for Mom has scored Solstice Senior Living at Guilford with 9.2 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 3 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, Solstice Senior Living at Guilford has 36 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 4.2 out of 5.
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[Name removed] explained without selling, food is well balanced and good, move in went smoothly with 7 friends and two professional movers. The front office staff, including [name removed], are very attentive. I recommended one friend who moved in, working on several others. Maintenance staff solved several problems. Friendly and helpful tenants. After a year of looking, Solstice Senior Living at Guilford is just right for us.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
April 11, 2024Thank you, Charles, for your positive review. We're so glad you're thoroughly enjoying your experience at Solstice at Guilford. If you have any further questions about our community, please don't hesitate to reach out to a member of our team. Thank you again for your positive message.
Staff is very friendly, program director is fabulous ... housekeeping which is advertised for weekly of every apt is horrible !!! Better off not having it or hire better company !! They have a few different sizes of one bedroom apartments, very small to large and then 2 bedrooms as well.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
January 23, 2024Good afternoon. We appreciate you taking the time to share your insights with our team. We would like to hear more about your experience with the housekeeping service so we can address it with our partners and help you find the right solution. Please contact Robin Smith, the executive director at Solstice at Guilford, at guilfordED@solsticeseniorliving.com or (203) 458-3337 if you would like to discuss further. Thank you.
My family and loved one had a wonderful experience with Solstice Senior Living. The staff are extremely caring, thoughtful, and patient to the residents and families. Everyone here is very friendly. They provide meals for the resident as well. Overall, this is a community we would recommend to others for their loved ones.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
June 2, 2023Thank you so much for the kind review, Mike! We are pleased to hear that you and your family had great experiences at our community. We truly appreciate you taking the time to leave us feedback. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a wonderful day!
Solstice of Guilford is so welcoming! My cousin has been on the waiting list for an apartment and we got the notice of availability and are so excited after we had the tour. The grands are gorgeous as the inside with the fireplace and dining area....and the people, just wonderful.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
January 3, 2023Thank you for your review of Solstice at Guilford! We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback. Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a great day!
Having been with Solstice the amenities are great. The staff is fantastic. My father resided here and loved the food. I would rate everything 5's and everyone is great.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
December 21, 2022Thank you for your review of Solstice at Guilford! We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback and we are so glad your father is enjoying his time at our community. Have a great day!
We would recommend Solstice Senior Living at Guilford to other families looking for a place for their loved ones
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
September 23, 2022Thank you so much for the kind review and recommendation of Solstice at Guilford! We truly appreciate you taking the time to leave us feedback. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a wonderful day!
The friendliness of the staff members and their helpfulness to this day has been amazing, if we have any type of questions or concerns we can bring it to their attention and it is solved right away. Solstice Senior Living is a really a nice community and based on our overall experience we would recommend this community to other families.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
June 12, 2022Thank you for your review of Solstice at Guilford! We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback. Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a great day!
I was very impressed with the physical facility and the staff when we came to tour Solstice. The overall value to the money here is amazing. The apartment is plenty big enough for my parents needs. Every single staff member has been extremely friendly and pleasant to work with. I would recommend Solstice to others and already have.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
June 6, 2022Thank you for your review of Solstice at Guilford! We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback. We are so glad you enjoyed learning about our community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a great day!
This community is the most bang for your buck. I was shocked at how much some communities are. It is independent living but they have all the services in case you do need them. This is a beautiful community and a beautiful neighborhood the rooms are very large also. It is a nice size room and a kitchen also and it is half the price as some of the other communities out there. check it first but if you need to see the others you will end up back here.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
May 12, 2022Thank you for your review of Solstice at Guilford! We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback. We are so glad you enjoyed learning about our community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a great day!
The value for the money is 10 stars, it is amazing how nice the community is with such little money - it is very reasonable and something our loved one can handle. Everyone there has been so accommodating and nice, our loved one had to leave for a month to recover from a broken hip and when she got back they had a welcome sign and welcomed her with open arms. They constantly check in with our family. She loves it there, her unit is lovely, the view is great and well kept. The location of the community is great. Once she is able to resume the activities it is going to be fantastic. They have so many different things for all their different interests, they have movie nights, outings, speakers, entertainment and so many different board games.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
April 18, 2022Thank you so much for the five-star review! We are pleased to hear your loved one is enjoying our community while she recovers, and truly appreciate you taking the time to leave us feedback. Feel free to reach out with any questions. Have a wonderful day!
The staff are very friendly. And the residents are friendly as well. Transportation sometimes needs to be a little more desirable. They can only take so many people at a time on the bus, and sometimes people just get on the bus to ride and don't even have shopping to do or appointments to go to. And that takes away from those who really need to go. I like my apartment very much. It's a nice size, and bigger than one we had previously at a different place. I think they need better maintenance people, but I know they're trying to hire people and are having problems finding applicants.
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Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
October 1, 2021Thank you so much for your review of Solstice at Guilford. We are pleased to hear you had a great experience at our community and with our staff. We appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback. Have a wonderful day!
We chose Solstice Senior Living because they felt more like apartments. They are personalized to a degree for the residents that they have. The staff were very friendly and the facility itself is beautiful and does not feel like a nursing home, it was exactly what we were looking for. My mother in law is very happy here and we have had a very good experience. I would recommend to others looking.
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July 1, 2021Thank you so much for taking the time to leave feedback, Amy! We are thrilled to hear your mother-in-law is enjoying our community, and that you've had great experiences with our staff. Have a great day!
Solstice Senior Living has been absolutely wonderful, they have really gone out of their way to meet every single one of the residents needs. They were pretty strict during the pandemic but they have kept the residents safe. Almost 80% have fully been vaccinated. We feel very safe with our parents being there, the director is just one call away. No matter my needs or requests everything has been met. They are truly awesome.
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Location great. Like 3 meals. 2 bed rm apts perfect size. Outdoor areas nice. laundry/housekp AOK. Transprt - great. Happy about all ementies. Lots of activities. Nothing negative to find.
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May 7, 2021Thanks so much for taking the time to leave feedback. We appreciate your five-star review!
It was very nice, just a little bit too far out in the woods. The person who took us around was very knowledgeable. I found the units to be very nice here.
Response from Solstice Senior Living at Guilford
April 12, 2021We appreciate your feedback, Kathleen! Thanks for the five-star review.
The staff is excellent and very friendly. The community is very clean and they have great activities. The residence is very friendly. I would definitely recommend this community to others
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January 25, 2021Thank you so much for the four-star review, Kim! We are glad that you have had a positive experience with Solstice Senior Living at Guilford.
Daily chef-prepared meals from scratch? If frozen is "from scratch" then that is true. But still, the food is terrible for most of the time. "From pleasant housekeepers, to attentive servers at mealtime" - housekeepers are servers and servers are housekeepers. Nobody cares about what residents have to say - they and their families are asked for patience all the time. It used to be better but now it became a terrible place.
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My parents moved in last summer and it is a nice place and staff but a few major issues since Solstice took over for the Gables 1 - this location is down a country road miles into thick woods --THEY DO NOT HAVE A GENERATOR! - it was promised back in January 2018 and sure enough the power went out and residents only had hall lights, NO HEAT AND the elevator didn't work for days- so , my father who can barely walk had to almost be carried down the stairs when I picked him up and drove them out of there to safety and our home - this is a total disgrace and epic blunder 2 - Despite constant complaints, the food is still terrible - my dad: "I had better food in the Navy' - and the portions are sparse
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The staff is friendly and the place is gorgeous It is a very nice
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Sales manager was also a resident and knew everyone by name. Introduced me to several residents and I had lunch with two nice people. Community sense of living!
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