Edgemere

    8523 Thackery St, Dallas, TX 75225
    • Independent Living
    • Assisted Living
    • Memory Care
    • Skilled Nursing

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    Amenities

    Healthcare services

    • Activities of daily living assistance
    • Assistance with bathing
    • Assistance with dressing
    • Assistance with transfers
    • 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
    • Restaurant-style dining
    • Special dietary restrictions

    Room

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

    Transportation

    • Transportation arrangement (non-medical)

    Common areas

    • Beauty salon
    • Dining room
    • Garden
    • Outdoor space
    • Small library

    Community services

    • Move-in coordination

    Activities

    • Community-sponsored activities
    • Resident-run activities
    • Scheduled daily activities

    Reviews

    4.49·(155)

    Overall rating

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

      3.9
    • Staff

      4.3
    • Meals

      4.5
    • Amenities

      4.6
    • Value

      2.3

    Pros

    • Attractive, resort-style campus with landscaped courtyards and outdoor spaces
    • Welcoming and friendly residents, front-desk staff, and concierge service
    • Compassionate nursing, personal-care, and therapy staff praised by many families
    • Broad dining options and generally well-regarded meals
    • Extensive social, fitness, educational, and creative activities
    • Strong opportunities for friendships and resident involvement
    • Convenient amenities, including housekeeping, maintenance, transportation, and wellness facilities
    • Positive experiences with rehabilitation and memory-care transitions
    • Responsive leadership and helpful business-office support in some family interactions

    Cons

    • Inconsistent medication-administration controls
    • Delays responding to call buttons, pain-relief requests, and other resident needs
    • Staffing and workload pressures across higher-acuity care settings
    • Gaps in clinical monitoring, escalation, and family communication
    • Inconsistent personal-care assistance and transfer-safety practices
    • Uneven wound-care coordination and discharge documentation
    • Common-area cleaning and maintenance follow-through concerns
    • Elevator reliability, fire-alarm management, and visitor access-control concerns
    • Inconsistent billing and long-term-care insurance support
    • Parking constraints, including limited accessible spaces
    • High costs that may be difficult for residents on fixed incomes

    Summary of reviews

    Edgemere receives strong praise for its appearance, amenities, dining, activities, and welcoming community. Long-term residents and families often describe it as a comfortable, socially active place, with opportunities for friendships, fitness, classes, performances, and resident-led involvement. The campus is frequently characterized as elegant and resort-like, with multiple dining venues, courtyards, a theater, a library, and other shared spaces. Meals are commonly praised for quality and variety, though some feedback is less favorable about food and service in skilled nursing or about dining staff training.

    Experiences with care vary notably by service and individual account. Many families commend nursing, personal-care, rehabilitation, and therapy teams for kindness and attentiveness, and some describe positive support during respite stays, rehabilitation, or transitions to memory care. Other families raise significant concerns in assisted living, memory care, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing, including medication-administration errors, slow responses to requests, inadequate pain management, limited monitoring, and gaps in communication about changes in condition. Accounts also describe inconsistent personal-care assistance, transfer supervision, wound-care coordination, and discharge instructions. These concerns are particularly important for families assessing higher-acuity care, where needs may change quickly and residents may be less able to advocate for themselves.

    Staff and management feedback is similarly mixed. Many residents and visitors describe employees as professional, warm, and helpful, and several long-standing residents report feeling at home and well supported. There are also accounts of staffing pressures, frequent staff changes, and uneven courtesy or follow-through. Some families have praised administrators for responding to concerns, while others describe difficulty obtaining timely information from care teams or assistance with insurance and billing. One long-term resident raised concerns about visitor verification and security oversight, including an allegation involving checks taken from a resident’s apartment; this account is not corroborated elsewhere in the reviews.

    Building and operational feedback is generally positive about the campus’s appearance and cleanliness, but some accounts describe maintenance delays, common-area cleaning concerns, elevator outages, frequent fire alarms, and ongoing construction disruption. Parking and accessible-space availability are also identified as drawbacks. Overall, the reviews present Edgemere as a high-end community with substantial lifestyle amenities and many strongly positive resident experiences, alongside meaningful variation in care and service consistency. Prospective residents and families may want to evaluate the specific level of care needed, ask about staffing and medication safeguards, clarify how families are notified of clinical changes, and review current maintenance, security, billing, and insurance procedures.

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    Location

    Edgemere is located at 8523 Thackery St, Dallas, TX, 75225.

    About Edgemere

    Edgemere sits in the Preston Hollow neighborhood and folks know it as the original Life Care community in Dallas, with a good reputation for senior living and lifelong security. The place offers independent living, assisted living, memory support, skilled nursing care, and rehabilitation-all on one campus, and that means people get what they need as their health changes, which friends and families say makes things easier. Residents get daily help when needed and benefit from personalized care plans, close work with doctors, and a 24-hour call system for safety, with nurses on staff part-time and security features like a gated entrance and guards.

    Dining options feel varied, with Medici's restaurant changing its menu regularly and Portabella's Café and Grill for something casual, and meals come with fresh herbs and vegetables from the greenhouse and garden. Meal delivery and takeout work for folks who want to dine in their room, while community rooms with chandeliers and high ceilings make shared meals pleasant. Residents can join wellness programs using the indoor heated pool, fitness center, and group exercise sessions like yoga, stretching, aquatic fitness, balance classes, and personal training. There are walking trails, lush gardens, courtyards, sports for fun like a nine-hole putting green and bocce ball, and a clubhouse with patios, balconies, and serene green views.

    The Edgemere community offers activity choices, from arts and crafts, music, and games, to outings, educational programs, and literary groups, and socializing comes naturally thanks to shared spaces like a billiards room, computer room, library, and theater. People here value connection, and the environment feels supportive, with spiritual services, events, and classes that foster growth and engagement. For comfort in each private residence, units have modern kitchens with stainless steel appliances, quartz counters, carpet throughout, mini blinds, and some offer balconies with seating and a view of landscaped grounds, while regular housekeeping, maintenance, laundry, and linen services keep things tidy.

    Amenities include a salon, barbershop, mailboxes, on-site maintenance, and an all-bills-paid approach. Religious services take place, and scheduled transportation is available for shopping, outings, and medical visits up to 15 miles, including trips to pharmacies like Walgreens and hospitals such as Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Residents pay by check, and concierge services help with personal needs. For extra support, Edgemere gives access to occupational, cardiac, physical, respiratory, speech, IV and lymphedema therapies, plus medication reminders, hospice care, home health, and respite stays. There's room for people to live in the way they prefer, and Edgemere balances elegance, tranquil surroundings, and convenience for those who want an active and secure place for senior living.

    People often ask...

    Edgemere offers independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.

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    Yes, Edgemere allows residents to age in place and adjust their level of care as needed.

    The full address for this community is 8523 Thackery St, Dallas, TX 75225.

    No, Edgemere 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.

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