Pricing ranges from
    $3,900 – 5,850/month
    This community is now operating as Shadow Ridge Senior Living.

    Aegis Living Shadowridge

    1440 S Melrose Dr, Oceanside, CA 92056
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care

    Modern bright campus, attentive staff

    I toured and moved my mother here and have been very pleased. The campus is modern, bright and impeccably clean with lovely gardens, patios and hotel-like common areas. Staff-from nurses to activities and dining-are warm, professional and attentive; the food is excellent and there's a rich program of activities, memory-care options and regular outings that gave our family real peace of mind.

    Loved one of resident
    Jul 2026

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • Coordination with health care providers
    • Hospice waiver
    • Medication management
    • Mental wellness program

    Healthcare staffing

    • 12-16 hour nursing
    • 24-hour call system
    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

    • Diabetes diet
    • Meal preparation and service
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

    • Air-conditioning
    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Kitchenettes
    • Private bathrooms
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Memory care community services

    • Dementia waiver
    • Mild cognitive impairment
    • Specialized memory care programming

    Transportation

    • Community operated transportation
    • Transportation arrangement
    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Computer center
    • Dining room
    • Fitness room
    • Gaming room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library
    • Wellness center

    Community services

    • Concierge services
    • Fitness programs
    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Planned day trips
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.38·(65)

    Overall rating

    1. 5
    2. 4
    3. 3
    4. 2
    5. 1
    • Care

      4.4
    • Staff

      4.5
    • Meals

      4.3
    • Amenities

      4.2
    • Value

      2.8

    Pros

    • Compassionate, resident-centered caregiving staff
    • Strong memory-care programming and transitions support
    • Clinically capable nursing and medical team
    • Clean, modern, hotel-like facility and decor
    • High-quality, varied dining and culinary program
    • Frequent live-music and musical entertainment
    • Robust activities program with outings and social events
    • Well-appointed common spaces (courtyard, theater, salon)
    • Comfortable, customizable apartments of reasonable size
    • On-site hospice and end-of-life coordination
    • Proactive family communication about health issues
    • Transportation and scheduled bus outings
    • Thorough move-in and transitions program
    • Warm social atmosphere and family-like culture

    Cons

    • High overall pricing and substantial ancillary fees
    • Opaque ancillary-fee and medication-billing practices
    • Variable staff continuity and elevated turnover
    • Inconsistent staff responsiveness and delayed attend-to-resident times
    • Activity programming not consistently adapted to resident abilities
    • Management follow-through and communication inconsistencies
    • Maintenance and housekeeping follow-through lapses
    • Limited visitor parking and constrained access logistics
    • Resident mix may limit suitability for very active seniors
    • Gaps in crisis-escalation and discharge/transition handling

    Summary of reviews

    Aegis Living Shadowridge is frequently described as a well-appointed, hotel-like senior living community with strong memory-care capability and a generally high level of clinical support. Many accounts emphasize attentive, compassionate caregivers, an experienced nursing and medical team, and structured transition programs that ease moves into memory care. On clinical matters and complex medical situations the community is often portrayed as competent and communicative, with on-site hospice coordination available when needed.

    Dining and amenities are recurring strengths: reviewers highlight varied, restaurant-style meals, generous portions, and an engaged culinary staff. The physical plant and common areas are consistently described as clean, modern, and attractive, with features such as a courtyard and garden, small theater, hair salon, and multiple communal seating areas. Apartments are typically characterized as comfortable and customizable, with reasonable room sizes for independent and memory-care living.

    Programming is active and musically oriented: live music, garden concerts, a summer concert series, weekly outings, and bus trips are commonly mentioned. That said, activity fit is a mixed picture. While many residents benefit from a broad calendar of social and recreational events, some reviewers found programming repetitive or not well matched to residents with differing functional or cognitive levels. Prospective families should ask how activities are individualized and how staff adapt offerings for higher-need or less-engaged residents.

    Several operational concerns recur across accounts. Cost is a consistent theme: the community is described as expensive, and ancillary charges for medications and elevated levels of care can create affordability challenges. Reviewers also note variability in staff continuity and occasional management turnover, which can affect consistency of care and communication. There are multiple references to delayed responsiveness at the frontline (long wait times for assistance) and to instances of housekeeping or maintenance follow-through lapses; these suggest areas to probe during a tour (response times, maintenance request protocols, housekeeping schedules).

    While the overall sentiment is strongly positive regarding staff compassion and clinical competence, a minority of accounts raise serious concerns about responsiveness, communication during crises, and discharge/transition handling. These more severe concerns are not the dominant pattern but merit targeted questions: ask about staffing ratios, turnover rates, escalation procedures, ancillary fee disclosure, and examples of how the team individualizes care and activities. In summary, Shadowridge presents as a high-quality, well-resourced community with notable strengths in clinical care, memory support, dining, and amenities — balanced by understandable cost considerations and some variability in operational consistency that prospective residents and families should investigate further.

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    Location

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    Aegis Living Shadowridge is located at 1440 S Melrose Dr, Oceanside, CA, 92056.

    About Aegis Living Shadowridge

    Aegis Living Shadowridge sits in a quiet, pretty area in the middle of Oceanside, where you can reach shopping, parks, banks, restaurants, medical places, and the ocean without too much trouble, and this place has room for 95 residents in a two-story building that offers studios, one-bedroom, suite, and companion apartments, each with room sizes from 377 to 650 square feet, and you'll find private dining rooms, a bistro, cozy fireplaces, living-room and living-to-kitchen apartments, an outdoor courtyard, peaceful patios, and gardens, which seem like nice spots to sit with friends or family when the weather's good, and they allow pets so people can usually bring their animal companions as long as they follow some rules.

    The staff, including caregiving staff for day and night and licensed nursing staff, stay on hand 24/7 to help with things like bathing, meals, and medication, and they've set up ways to keep people safe and comfortable, with live-in staff and quick help for emergencies using a Quick Response AI system, and Dr. Raj Dasgupta helps lead the community, which might reassure some families, and you'll see the staff do their best to welcome everyone with kindness and respect, all while encouraging residents to do what they can for themselves.

    This community offers assisted living, memory care for people living with dementia or Alzheimer's disease, and short-term services like respite or transitional care, and there's a special focus on serving Asian communities and folks from the San Diego Regional Center, along with tailored programming to meet changing needs for both mind and body, using things like Red Light Restore, in-house therapy, Family Link for families to keep in touch, and regular support for Parkinson's care, and their memory care program includes secure areas and activities that aim to help stimulate the brain and give comfort.

    People here spend their days with choices for social, educational, and fun activities, including gardening, fitness, devotionals, and outings, and meals are provided throughout the day as part of all-day dining, with the food usually getting good remarks and plenty of variety, and there's a beauty salon onsite too, so folks can get hair and grooming done without leaving the building.

    The housekeeping, laundry, and transportation services take care of the practical things, letting people focus on friends and hobbies, and the community encourages everyone to join in and make friends, but staff respect privacy and independence too, and everyday life usually includes morning or afternoon events designed to keep bodies and minds active, which seems to help foster that feeling of belonging, and there's always staff around if someone needs help at any hour, and the place has been licensed since 2008, so there's some stability and experience behind it. The owners are private and family run, and while the service options are wide-including independent living, assisted living, memory care, short-term respite, nursing, and continuing care-the general feel stays warm and family-like, with a calm SoCal beach life tone running throughout.

    About Aegis Living

    Aegis Living Shadowridge is managed by Aegis Living.

    Founded in 1997 by Dwayne Clark and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Aegis Living operates 39 senior living communities along the West Coast. The company provides assisted living, memory care, respite care, and end-of-life services to 2,500+ residents. Guided by their "Dare to Care" philosophy and people-first culture.

    People often ask...

    Aegis Living Shadowridge offers competitive pricing, with rates starting at a cost of $3,900 per month.

    Aegis Living Shadowridge offers assisted living and memory care.

    There are 45 photos of Aegis Living Shadowridge on Mirador.

    The full address for this community is 1440 S Melrose Dr, Oceanside, CA 92056.

    No, Aegis Living Shadowridge does not offer respite care. Respite care in assisted living communities provides temporary, short-term relief for primary caregivers by offering professional care for their loved ones. It allows individuals to stay in an assisted living community for a limited time, giving caregivers a break while ensuring residents receive necessary support and assistance with daily activities.

    Safety & Compliance

    In California, the Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division licenses residential care facilities for the elderly, conducting inspections and investigating complaints.

    License number374602653
    StatusClosed
    Facility typeResidential Care Elderly
    Capacity95 residents
    LicenseeAEGIS SENIOR COMMUNITIES LLC
    EffectiveSeptember 22nd, 2008
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    Inspection Reports

    26

    Reports

    2

    Type A Citations

    15

    Type B Citations

    4

    Complaints

    7

    Years

    27 Feb 2026Complaint
    Investigated an allegation that staff did not treat residents with dignity.
    • Type B87468.1(a)(1)
    09 Oct 2025Inspection
    Observed no deficiencies during the case management visit and noted the site was clean, safe, and well-maintained with proper storage of medications.
    23 Sept 2025Inspection
    Observed no deficiencies during the visit; records were reviewed and residents observed receiving care.
    20 Aug 2024Inspection
    Observed clean, safe, and well-maintained premises with appropriate storage for medications and hazardous materials; no deficiencies were cited.
    09 Aug 2024Inspection
    Observed no deficiencies during a required annual visit. Records were reviewed.
    21 May 2024Inspection
    Observed no deficiencies during an unannounced collateral visit. Interviews were conducted with staff.
    13 May 2024Inspection
    Observed that a medication patch was not administered according to physician's order, with dosing every 4 days instead of every 72 hours.
    • Type B87645(c)(2)
    • Type B87465(c)(2)
    13 May 2024Inspection
    Identified a resident fall occurred due to malfunctioning call button and pendant; resident received medical attention and returned with no injuries, and staff were retrained on monitoring and call system checks.
    28 Sept 2023Inspection
    Found the home clean, safe, and well-maintained with functioning safety systems and medications stored securely; no deficiencies were observed.
    10 Jul 2023Inspection
    Identified no deficiencies during the visit.
    18 Nov 2022Inspection
    Observed a deficiency requiring written notice to the resident's responsible party about rate increases due to changes in level of care.
    • Type B1569.657(a)
    18 Nov 2022Inspection
    Conducted a case management visit to review exception requirements and discuss the exception request process, and held an exit interview.
    20 Oct 2022Inspection
    Identified a failure to protect a resident due to insufficient supervision, resulting in serious injuries and hospitalization.
    • Type A87464(f)(1)
    • Type B87705(j)
    • Type B87101(c)(3)
    • Type B1569.2(c)
    • Type B1569.49
    • Type B1569.49(f)
    • Type B15610.67
    20 Oct 2022Complaint
    Investigated two issues: failure to provide written rate increase notice and an eviction/readmission dispute after hospital discharge.
    • Type B1569.657(a)
    • Type B87468.2(a)(20)
    20 Oct 2022Inspection
    Found that staff did not arrange timely medical attention for a resident, who later required hospitalization.
    • Type A87465(a)(1)
    20 Oct 2022Inspection
    Conducted an unannounced case management visit and obtained signatures on an amended LIC9099; an exit interview was conducted with the administrator.
    07 Oct 2022Complaint
    Investigated an allegation that neglect or lack of supervision led to a resident's death, and found insufficient evidence to support the allegation.
    21 Sept 2022Inspection
    Observed no deficiencies during the visit.
    04 May 2022Inspection
    Investigated an unwitnessed fall involving a resident that led to hospital transport after a self-reported incident to the Department. Interviews with staff were conducted, and no deficiencies were cited or observed on that date.
    04 May 2022Inspection
    Delivered an amended complaint investigation report following an unannounced case management visit.
    12 Nov 2021Complaint
    Investigated the allegation that a family member was not allowed to visit a resident. Found that indoor visitation was restricted due to misinterpretation of public health guidance, affecting 61 residents.
    • Type B87468.1(11)
    • Type B84468.1(11)
    08 Oct 2021Inspection
    Conducted an on-site review of disinfection, testing surveillance, screening protocols, and PPE use; no deficiencies were issued.
    27 Sept 2021Inspection
    Found comprehensive COVID-19 infection control measures in place at the location, including centralized entry screening, routine symptom checks, visitor sign-in, posted hand hygiene and distancing guidance, PPE availability, and a designated visitation area. Found no deficiencies observed and that the COVID-19 mitigation plan was reviewed and aligned with infection control guidance.
    20 Dec 2019Inspection
    Identified no deficiencies during the visit.
    01 Oct 2019Inspection
    No deficiencies were observed during the visit.
    20 Sept 2019Inspection
    Confirmed an overall compliance with regulations and standards during the annual inspection.
    • Type B87468.1(11)

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