Pricing ranges from
    $4,084 – 4,900/month

    The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc

    8318 SW 162nd Pl, Miami, FL, 33193
    5.0 · 21 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    5.0

    Excelente cuidado para mi abuelita

    Estoy muy agradecida: dejé a mi abuelita en excelentes manos. Personal atento y cariñoso (la administradora Olivia incluida), ambiente familiar y alegre, limpieza impecable, comida deliciosa y celebran fechas; lo recomiendo 100%.

    Pricing

    $4,084+/moSemi-privateAssisted Living
    $4,900+/mo1 BedroomAssisted Living

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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
    • Medication management

    Healthcare staffing

    • 24-hour supervision

    Meals and dining

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

    Room

    • Cable
    • Fully furnished
    • Housekeeping and linen services
    • Telephone
    • Wifi

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (medical)
    • Transportation to doctors appointments

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    5.00 · 21 reviews

    Overall rating

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    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      5.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Warm, loving, and attentive staff
    • Family-like, homey atmosphere
    • High cleanliness and hygiene standards
    • Attentive and kind administration/owner (named Olivia in reviews)
    • Personalized and special care for residents
    • Regular celebrations and social activities (birthdays, special dates)
    • Comfort and peace of mind for families
    • Highly recommended by multiple reviewers (100%/highly recommended)
    • Delicious/excellent meals
    • Organized, attractive, and comfortable facility
    • Respectful and dignified treatment of residents
    • Consistent gratitude and positive testimonials from families

    Cons

    • No negative aspects reported in the provided summaries
    • Reviews do not mention clinical/medical care details, staffing ratios, or pricing

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment and themes: The reviews for The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc. are overwhelmingly positive and emphasize a warm, family-oriented care environment. Across the summaries, reviewers repeatedly highlight affectionate, attentive staff who treat residents with love and respect. Many comments use language such as "treated like family," "team of angels," and "dueña cariñosa," which conveys strong emotional satisfaction and trust from relatives and residents. Gratitude and explicit recommendations are common—multiple reviewers state they would "highly recommend" the home or give a "100%" recommendation—indicating consistent satisfaction across different families.

    Care quality and staff: A dominant theme is the high quality of personal care. Reviewers note that staff are not only professional but also caring and attentive to both residents and family members. The facility's owner or administrator is singled out by name in some summaries (Olivia) and described as kind and engaged. Phrases such as "special attention," "cuidado amoroso y dedicado," and "empleadas muy atentas" point to individualized, compassionate caregiving. Families report feeling comfortable leaving loved ones in the facility's hands, suggesting trust in day-to-day supervision and emotional support provided by employees.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and atmosphere: Cleanliness and hygiene are emphasized repeatedly—comments like "limpieza e higiene al 100%" and "muy limpio" occur often—indicating that the physical environment is well maintained. Reviewers describe the home as comfortable, beautiful, organized, and home-like, contributing to residents feeling at ease and relaxed. The recurring description of a "family atmosphere," "harmonious" and "acogedor" environment reinforces the impression that the facility prioritizes a non-institutional, welcoming ambiance that supports resident well-being.

    Dining, activities, and social life: Multiple summaries praise the meals as "delicious" and "exceptional food," and several mention celebrations such as birthdays and special events. These references suggest that the facility offers social programming and communal dining that enhance resident quality of life. The presence of celebrations and attention to important dates indicates an emphasis on social engagement, emotional warmth, and preserving rituals that matter to residents and families.

    Management, communication, and recommendations: Management and administrative staff are consistently praised for being attentive and kind. Reviewers thank both staff and administrators by name and describe positive interactions with families, indicating good communication and responsiveness. The high frequency of explicit recommendations and grateful testimonials points to strong reputation and word-of-mouth referrals within the reviewed sample.

    Notable patterns and caveats: The reviews provided are uniformly positive and focus on interpersonal, environmental, and lifestyle aspects of care—staff warmth, cleanliness, meals, and celebrations. There are no explicit complaints or negative experiences reported in these summaries. At the same time, the reviews do not provide specific information about clinical or medical services (such as medication management protocols, availability of licensed nursing staff, medical emergency handling, or staff-to-resident ratios), nor do they comment on cost, contract terms, or regulatory compliance. Those omissions are not criticisms but are gaps in the dataset that prospective families may want to investigate further. In summary, based on these reviews, The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc. appears to excel at creating a loving, clean, and home-like environment with attentive staff and meaningful social programming, while additional due diligence would be advisable to confirm clinical capabilities and financial/logistical details not addressed in the provided summaries.

    Location

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    About The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc

    The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc. has cared for seniors in Miami, Florida, since May 23, 2002, and is set up as a small, licensed facility for up to six residents, so it feels quiet and close-knit, with staff available on site around the clock and a focus on elders who need help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, moving about, and taking their medicines, but who don't need heavy nursing care. The place handles assisted living and memory care, which means folks living with memory loss or trouble thinking can get help, as can those just needing a hand with meals, medication, and staying safe in a homey environment where safety features like emergency alert systems and prevention of falls and spoiled food are taken seriously. Residents have their own furnished rooms with cable TV, a telephone, and WiFi, and the staff keeps things clean with regular housekeeping and fresh linens, while also handling meal prep using quality ingredients and making sure special diets-like for diabetes or high blood pressure-get proper attention, sometimes serving up home-cooked meals for everybody to share in a dining room. The community encourages people to stay active and socialize through daily planned activities, games, art, music, movie nights, and even pet or music therapy and fitness or workout programs, and you'll see plenty of chances for folks to join in religious services, go on outings, or just spend time in the gardens, fitness room, reading room, sauna, hot tub, or the barber and beauty shop on site. The Guardian Elder Care Services, Inc. supports both long-term and short-term stays, so families can use respite care for temporary help or hospice services when needed, and there's always coordination for rides to doctor visits, errands, and faith-based gatherings, plus help moving in and getting settled. Staff do their best to treat everyone with respect and kindness, working off personalized care plans and making room for independence and dignity while paying strong attention to safety and well-being, and you'll find annual reports and updates filed properly with the State of Florida, showing that the place keeps up with all required rules and licenses under license number 10322, and the whole effort is led by registered agent Olivia Diaz at the 8318 SW 162 PL. Miami address, where a culture of warmth, trust, and compassion runs through daily life.

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