Golden Girls Solutions

    8350 Bee Ridge Rd #317, Sarasota, FL, 34241
    5.0 · 79 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    5.0

    Compassionate knowledgeable care coordination team

    I am so grateful to Golden Girls-Brittany and the team were compassionate, patient advocates who truly listened and guided us every step. They knew licensing and dementia care, found the right memory-care placement, coordinated rehab discharges and movers, handled out-of-state issues and even persisted through Hurricane Ian. My parent is comfortable and content, the team follows up, and their knowledgeable, responsive support gave our family real peace of mind - I highly recommend them.

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    Amenities

    4.99 · 79 reviews

    Overall rating

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    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Compassionate, empathetic staff
    • Highly knowledgeable about elder care and local resources
    • Responsive and available by phone/email/text
    • Personalized, client-focused guidance
    • Thorough vetting of communities and home health agencies
    • Accompanies and escorts families on community tours
    • Proactive advocacy (financial, licensing, discharge planning)
    • Helps coordinate movers and transfers
    • Quick turnaround in urgent or tight timelines
    • Expertise in memory care and dementia support
    • Calming and reassuring presence during transitions
    • Continued follow-up and ongoing check-ins
    • Non-pressure, honest placement recommendations
    • Helps navigate complex medication regimens
    • Time-saving assistance that reduces family stress
    • Trusted long-term relationships with clients
    • High professionalism and organized communication
    • Knowledgeable about pricing and able to negotiate fees
    • Free initial consultation and heart-centered service
    • Reliable liaison between hospitals, rehab, and ALFs

    Cons

    • Occasional facility-level problems (e.g., unprofessional changes in level of care)
    • External events can delay transfers (example: COVID-19 positive prevented transfer)
    • Some financial or fee issues require negotiation or advocacy
    • Few reviews mention dining, activities, or programmatic details (information gap)

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment: The reviews present a consistently strong, overwhelmingly positive picture of Golden Girls Solutions. Across scores of summaries, clients repeatedly emphasize compassion, deep knowledge of senior care options, and hands-on assistance through every step of the placement process. Reviewers single out specific team members (most frequently Brittany, Neema, Mary, Gina, Elle, Ashley and others) as attentive, patient, and highly accessible. The dominant theme is that Golden Girls provides highly personalized, low-pressure, and advocacy-driven placement services that save families time and reduce stress during emotionally difficult transitions.

    Staff quality and service model: The reviews highlight staff traits more than amenities — compassion, empathy, calm communication, and responsiveness are cited again and again. Team members are praised for listening well, asking the right questions about preferences and budget, and offering tailored recommendations rather than generic referrals. Many reviewers note that staff accompany families on tours, coordinate logistics like movers and medical records, intervene with hospitals and rehab facilities, and provide hands-on discharge planning. Follow-up and long-term check-ins are frequently mentioned, indicating that Golden Girls positions itself as a continuing resource rather than a one-time placement broker.

    Care quality and facility matching: Clients describe successful matches for a variety of needs, including memory care and residents with complex medication regimens. Several reviewers appreciate that recommended communities are not overly large, are easy to navigate for those with visual impairment, and are home-like rather than corporate. There are numerous anecdotes of staff finding an appropriate community quickly (including under tight timelines), negotiating first-month fees, and advocating for specific resident needs. Reviewers often describe the outcome in personal terms — the parent or relative is comfortable, content, and well cared for — which reinforces perceptions of good care quality at the placed communities.

    Logistics, advocacy, and financial navigation: A recurring strength in the reviews is Golden Girls' practical help with non-clinical but critical logistics: connecting families to reliable moving companies, coordinating transfers and admissions, interviewing home health agencies, and assisting with insurance and fee negotiations. Several reviewers specifically credit the team with saving them time and money, reducing stress, and smoothing transitions that involved out-of-state relatives or complex hospital discharges. Financial advocacy (such as reduced first-month fees) and clear price explanations are cited as added value in a process that many families find confusing.

    Memory care and dementia expertise: Many reviewers singled out experience with dementia and memory care as a central capability. Golden Girls staff are described as knowledgeable about licensing and the assisted living / memory care landscape, able to recommend appropriate levels of care, and attentive to safety and programming needs for residents with cognitive impairment. Families coping with dementia report that staff helped them find safe, supportive environments and offered ongoing emotional support and counseling.

    Patterns, responsiveness, and reputation: The reviews coalesce into a pattern of rapid responsiveness, deep client focus, and repeated follow-up. Multiple reviewers report that they could reach staff anytime and that staff returned calls and kept appointments reliably. Several comments describe long-term relationships (10+ years) and willingness to continue working with the company. Clients contrast Golden Girls favorably against larger placement companies, noting less pressure, more human contact, and more thoughtful matching.

    Notable concerns and information gaps: Explicit negative points in the reviews are sparse. A few reviews record external or facility-level problems: one transfer was delayed because the resident tested COVID-19 positive, and there is at least one mention of an unprofessional change in level of care by a facility (which required the family to switch placements). These negatives are framed as issues with partner communities or external circumstances rather than with Golden Girls itself. Some reviews note that financial issues sometimes require advocacy or negotiation, implying cost can be a factor. Also, reviewers rarely commented on dining quality, structured activities, or specific program offerings inside communities — an information gap for prospective clients who prioritize lifestyle elements.

    Conclusion and overall assessment: Based on the body of review summaries provided, Golden Girls Solutions is depicted as a highly effective, compassionate, and hands-on placement and elder-care navigation service. Their principal strengths are personalized attention, dementia-care expertise, practical logistics coordination, financial advocacy, and consistent follow-up. While a small number of issues stem from partner facilities or external events (e.g., COVID or isolated care-level changes), reviewers overwhelmingly credit Golden Girls with finding appropriate placements quickly and providing peace of mind. For families seeking a personal, advocacy-driven placement service — especially for memory care or complex clinical/medication needs — the reviews indicate Golden Girls is a trusted and well-regarded option. Prospective clients should still ask about specific lifestyle elements (dining, activities, and on-site programming) for any recommended community, and confirm how Golden Girls manages follow-up if a facility-level problem arises.

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    About Golden Girls Solutions

    Golden Girls Solutions, Inc. is a senior living provider at 8350 Bee Ridge Rd #317 in Sarasota, Florida, and you'll notice right away they have care options for different needs, with personal care services for daily help, assisted living for those who want support with meals or medication, independent living with maintenance-free choices and social things to do, and memory care communities with safe areas and activities for dementia or Alzheimer's. The company runs 24/7 every day of the year, working in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte Counties, and you'll find staff like Brittany E. Jennings, Crystal Whitley, Gina, and Mary who work to guide families, help them through tricky choices, and keep things personal so you get what's best, whether someone needs a big community or a small, board and care home with only a handful of residents getting daily care.

    They offer suites, semi-private rooms, one-bedroom units, and studios, with resort-style features, comfortable amenities, and a focus on matching people with care providers who fit their budget and preferences. Their memory care units have programs meant to help memory, and skilled nursing offers wound care, rehab, and full nursing support twenty-four hours a day. Golden Girls Solutions files annual reports and operates as a profit corporation, and their team believes in treating every client like family through the whole process, from first questions to moving in and beyond, and they go above and beyond when helping with post-surgery needs or fitting special care plans. They also bring in care professionals like Jackie Frischeisen of Whitsyms In-Home-Care for in-home help, and their on-call support means families can talk to someone any time about independent living, assisted living, memory care, home health, continuing care retirement communities, or just figuring out what's right. They use unique program names and terms that go with their "Golden Girls" theme, and their focus stays on giving solutions, comfort, supervision, and activities for seniors, whether the person wants to live on their own with some help or needs full care.

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