10 Best Independent Living Communities in Wendover, ON

Excellent staff, facilities and food. Patient, kind and attentive to all residents. A wonderful caring environment! I recommend it to anyone who has an elderly relative w dementia or other issues.

Starting Out 2016 – With a Whole Hearted Thank you to the team at Blackburn Lodge. After my mom fell in late 2011, she was not able to return to her home. I had the daunting task of looking for a home for her at a Retirement Residence. I selected three Retirement Residences, based on my mom’s budget, the environment at the residences, the quality of answers to my questions and the location. My mom looked at all three and chose Blackburn Lodge. It’s coming up on 4 years now and my mom tells me on our daily calls that she is so very happy at Blackburn Lodge. I live over 3000 miles away and I feel confident and comforted that my mom lives in a very caring environment. The team are skilled, thoughtful and caring and I continue to see examples of their going well beyond to support my mom. If I raise something that needs attention, the team is opened to dialogue . I find them responsive and the necessary actions are scheduled as soon as possible. My mom also finds the activities are inclusive and welcoming and she is encouraged to participate. She regularly takes her walker out to the park across the street in the summer months to that she can enjoy the outdoors. When I visit, I often join my mom in the dining room for some tasty well-balanced meals, with the other residents, and I find the atmosphere very friendly. My mom’s friends in the Ottawa area enjoy visiting her at Blackburn Lodge, either in her room or for a meal in the dining room. My mom tells me that she wants to spend the rest of her years at Blackburn Lodge, due to the caring and attentive environment created by the team there. This says a lot. I'm so glad that my mom continues to enjoy her life at Blackburn Lodge. It really provides me with a great deal of comfort to know she is so well taken care of and that she is content. So, many thanks to the team at Blackburn Lodge for your thoughtfulness and continuous caring for my mom.

Elmsmere Villa is very clean and the staff are lovely and very friendly. The meals are good and nutritional and the kitchen is quite accommodating with personal preferences. The Villa is like a very large house with a large living room, dining room and games room on the main floor. Each resident is assigned their own mailbox. All the bedrooms are on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors and each floor has a shared sunroom at the sunny end of the floor near the elevator. Residents can visit, play cards, do puzzles or just read in any of those rooms. For those who are able, there is a small laundry room on the 4th floor with one washer and dryer. There is only one elevator, so it gets a lot of use, especially at meal times and if you are moving in or out, you need to make sure it is between or after mealtimes. They could benefit from a second elevator.