10 Best Independent Living Communities in Perry, SC

Carolina Gardens at Lexington is a nice facility, they are taking great care of my mom. We are having a little situation with the staffing ever since the virus hit. I am feeling like there is not enough staff. They are all very nice, when I would visit my mom before COVID I would stay in her room. They are very accommodating and the food is very good. Overall, it is a great facility. I would absolutely put my mom here again.

They have lots of activities going and we've joined a couple of them but we're not people that go to everything. I guess the management is only here two and a half days a week and in that, its usually only one and a half days. The maintenence, in my mind, is questionable in that it seems to take a long time for stuff to get done unless you pound them. The other thing is, we've lived in an apartment before, years ago, and they fixed things now, not "later" or "in a week." Here, it seems like the painting in the hallways they need to touch up, we've been here for several months and it's still not done. I don't know if they don't see it or if they don't care but personally, I feel they could do better. It's where you just live with it and hope someone gets a kick in the pants sometime. I do think it's a good place, once of the nice things is that there's an elevator and at our age we don't do stairs.

The staff caring for the residents are excellent...can't say enough. The administration staff is less so, but they are brand new. The move in and communication with admin staff had some issues. The food is adequate, but not much more. Pretty much what we've experienced elsewhere...industrial food! I would highly recommend Oaks at Aiken. By far the best we've experienced.