Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc.

    700 E Oak St, Lake in the Hills, IL, 60156
    5.0 · 9 reviews
    • Assisted living
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    5.0

    Warm, attentive staff; homelike atmosphere

    I placed my mom at Laurel in Lake in the Hills and I couldn't be happier. The staff are warm, attentive, and treat residents like family; the home-like facility is spotless, offers delicious homemade meals, an active activities calendar, and a safe, welcoming atmosphere - I highly recommend it.

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    5.00 · 9 reviews

    Overall rating

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    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.3
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Warm, friendly and helpful staff
    • Personalized, attentive care
    • Staff treat residents like family
    • Active social calendar and daily activities
    • Visible and engaging activities
    • Delicious, homemade meals with pleasant aroma
    • Clean rooms and well-made beds
    • High standards of cleanliness
    • Safe, loving and comfortable community
    • Intimate, home-like atmosphere
    • Staff available and nearby for residents
    • Grooming and personal touch-ups (hair, lipstick, perfume)
    • Private rooms with private bathrooms
    • Inviting social living room and communal spaces
    • Strong overall recommendations from reviewers

    Cons

    • Some reviewers wished more residents would engage in conversations or socialize

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment across the review summaries for Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc. is strongly positive and consistent. Multiple reviewers emphasize a high level of satisfaction, calling it an "amazing home" and the "best assisted living," and several comment they would strongly recommend the community. The most frequently noted strengths are the staff and the atmosphere: reviewers repeatedly highlight warm, friendly, compassionate caregivers who provide individualized attention and treat residents like family. This personalization is expressed in concrete behaviors—staff availability, nearby presence, and small gestures such as hair touch-ups, lipstick reapplication, and a pleasant personal scent—that reviewers interpreted as evidence of genuine care.

    Care quality and staff performance are central themes. Commenters describe the caregiving team as attentive, caring, and compassionate, with a home-like approach rather than an institutional feel. Reviewers emphasize staff responsiveness and a sense of safety and trust in the community. The language used—"home-like feel," "invaluable for seniors and their loved ones," and "staff who truly care"—indicates consistent confidence in both day-to-day assistance and emotional support provided to residents.

    Facility and cleanliness receive repeated praise. Rooms are described as clean and comfortable, beds are made, and some units include private bathrooms. Common areas such as a social living room are noted as inviting, contributing to the intimate and welcoming environment. Multiple reviewers single out cleanliness as "beyond impressive," and they often pair this observation with comments about the overall warmth and comfort of the setting. The physical environment, combined with friendly staff, creates a safe and pleasant living experience for residents.

    Dining and activities are also important positives. Reviewers mention delicious, homemade meals with a pleasant aroma, which contributes to the overall homelike atmosphere. The community appears to have a visible and active social calendar: daily activities, inviting programming, and opportunities for residents to gather are highlighted. These features contribute to resident happiness—several reviews note that a parent or loved one is smiling after moving in—indicating meaningful engagement with meals and activities.

    Patterns and minor concerns: the reviews are overwhelmingly favorable, and there are few explicit criticisms. One recurring, limited concern is that some reviewers wished for greater resident-to-resident conversational engagement; in other words, while activities are visible and organized, a few respondents would like more informal social interaction among residents. The reviews also suggest an intimate community size, which many see as a positive for personalized care but may implicitly limit social diversity or the number of peer connections for some residents. No other consistent operational or care-related complaints were reported across the summaries provided.

    In conclusion, the aggregated reviews paint Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc. as a small, well-kept, and warmly staffed assisted living community with a strong emphasis on individualized care and a homelike atmosphere. Strengths include compassionate staff, cleanliness, quality dining, active programming, and private, comfortable living spaces. The primary area for modest improvement—encouraging more resident-to-resident conversation and informal social interaction—appears manageable and does not detract from the overall high level of satisfaction evidenced by multiple strong recommendations.

    Location

    Map showing location of Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc.

    About Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc.

    Arden Rose Senior Living, Inc. sits at 700 E Oak St in Lake in the Hills, Illinois, and offers assisted living, independent living, memory care, nursing home care, and short-term respite care for seniors in areas including Schaumburg, Elgin, Lombard, Naperville, Roselle, and Elk Grove Village, and you'll notice when you step inside that each home only has up to 16 residents, which helps keep things quieter and lets staff know each person well. They help with dressing, bathing, getting around, taking medicine and making sure people eat right and on time, and the caregivers help people with Alzheimer's and dementia not wander off, stay safe, and get special attention to slow down memory loss and lower stress. The staff includes people like Barb Cihak, who's a Client Care Manager and medical assistant; Melinda Ruschke, the Care Coordinator, who has over 10 years working in healthcare and has experience in dementia care from caring for family; Rebecca Donze, Director of Sales & Marketing, who's spent 20 years managing long-term care; and Director of Community Relations Tanya Frost, who's worked with seniors with dementia, all of them under the leadership of Kaylee Newman, a registered nurse with 10 years of experience, and Laurel Sorenson, a nurse with over 20 years working with older adults, who own and run the community with a family touch.

    They fit each care plan to the person, so folks get what they really need, whether it's physical therapy, rehab, managing incontinence, help after surgery, or daily help with moving about, bathing, dressing, or taking pills, and they keep watch 24 hours a day, plus offer walking and wheelchair help and allow people to move in even if they can't get around easily. You get three home-cooked meals every day with snacks, and you can ask for special diets if you need them, and rooms have kitchenettes, cable TV, and walk-in showers to make daily life easier, and you'll also see the property provides extras like laundry and dry cleaning, housecleaning, a dining room, game and activity spaces, a fireplace, lounge, library, spa/wellness room, salon/barbershop, guest parking, and fast internet. Safety stays on their minds with sprinkler systems, emergency alert setups, and rooms meant for walkers and wheelchairs, and staff provide medication management along with help for everyone who needs it. Caregivers speak English and go through checks before working here, and they aim to show compassion and respect for every resident, focusing on letting people stay as independent as they can.

    There's a therapy room on-site for recovering from illness or falls, and activities like arts and crafts, movie nights, group learning, and health programs go on all the time so people can stay engaged and not feel alone, and low staff-to-resident numbers help make things more personal, with caregivers able to build friendships with people. Arden Rose prices its services at one all-inclusive rate to make it clear for families-there are no extra care level fees stacked up later. The place looks modern since it's a newer development, but it's meant to feel cozy, safe, and easy to navigate, and the aim is to give seniors a comfortable spot where they can live with dignity and get any level of help they might need-whether it's for a few weeks of rehab, specialized memory care, or daily support with what it takes just to get through a day.

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