Benevolent Adult Family Homes

    11821 102nd Pl NE, Kirkland, WA, 98034
    5.0 · 6 reviews
    • Assisted living
    • Memory care
    AnonymousLoved one of resident
    5.0

    Warm caring staff; healthy, happy

    I placed my mom here and couldn't be happier - the owner and staff are warm, empathetic, and treat residents like family. She's healthier, well-dressed, hasn't had any falls, and enjoys scheduled healthy meals, daily exercise, activities, naps, and the beautiful sunny garden; the home is always clean and tidy.

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    5.00 · 6 reviews

    Overall rating

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    • Care

      5.0
    • Staff

      5.0
    • Meals

      5.0
    • Amenities

      4.0
    • Value

      5.0

    Pros

    • Excellent, attentive care
    • Family-like environment
    • Improvement in residents' health
    • Structured/scheduled meals
    • Daily exercise program
    • Regular activities and scheduled naps
    • Healthy, nutritious meals
    • Safe environment with no falls reported
    • Beautiful garden and access to sunshine
    • Clean and tidy facility
    • Residents well-groomed and appropriately dressed
    • Kind, empathetic owner and management
    • Warm, caring staff

    Summary review

    Overall sentiment: The reviews present a uniformly positive impression of Benevolent Adult Family Homes. The dominant themes are high-quality, attentive personal care delivered in a warm, family-like setting and active, health-promoting daily routines. Multiple reviewers highlight both concrete outcomes (improved health, no falls) and subjective experience (feeling cared for, warm atmosphere), indicating consistently strong satisfaction among the reviewers represented.

    Care quality and resident outcomes: Reviewers repeatedly emphasize excellent and empathetic care. Specific outcomes noted include observable improvement in a resident's health and an absence of falls, which suggests attention to safety, supervision, and possibly effective fall-prevention practices. Reviewers also note that residents are kept clean, well-dressed, and well-presented, which supports an assessment of thorough personal care and grooming practices. The combination of daily exercises, regular activities, and scheduled naps is described as part of a structured routine that appears to support both physical well-being and overall comfort.

    Staff and management: Management and ownership receive particularly strong praise. The owner/manager is described as kind, amazing, and empathetic; reviewers characterize management as warm and caring. The emphasis on a family-like environment suggests staff prioritize relational care, personalized attention, and creating a homelike atmosphere. This pattern points to high staff engagement and a leadership style that is both hands-on and compassionate.

    Daily life, activities, and dining: Reviews describe a predictable, structured daily schedule that includes scheduled meals, daily exercises, activities, and naps. Dining is characterized as healthy and nutritious, aligning with the reports of improved resident health. The presence of planned activities and exercise programs indicates an emphasis on maintaining mobility, routine, and social engagement. The mention of scheduled naps also suggests staff balance activity with rest to support resident comfort.

    Facilities, cleanliness, and outdoor space: The physical environment is noted as clean and tidy. Positive mentions of a beautiful garden and access to sunshine highlight outdoor space as a valued component of the setting, contributing to residents' quality of life and opportunities for fresh air and light.

    Safety and reliability: The explicit mention that there have been no falls is a notable indicator of perceived safety and effective supervision or risk mitigation. Combined with the reports of health improvement and attentive care, reviewers convey confidence in the facility's ability to manage residents' daily needs reliably.

    Patterns, limitations, and gaps in the reviews: While the reviews are strongly positive and consistent across multiple dimensions (care, staff, routines, facility), they are uniformly favorable and do not list any negative aspects or concerns. This unanimity can reflect genuinely high satisfaction but also suggests potential sampling or reporting bias (for example, only satisfied families submitting summaries). Important topics are not mentioned in these summaries—cost and payment details, staffing levels and turnover, specific clinical or medical care capabilities, medication management, emergency response procedures, licensing/inspections, and visiting policies are absent. These omissions are not criticisms of the facility but represent gaps in the available information that prospective families may want to investigate further.

    Concluding assessment and next steps: The reviews collectively paint Benevolent Adult Family Homes as a caring, well-run, homelike facility with attentive staff, effective daily routines, nutritious meals, pleasant outdoor space, and an empathetic owner-manager. For a prospective resident or family member, the next recommended steps would be to tour the home to observe interactions and routines firsthand, ask for references and documentation of licensing/inspections, inquire about staff training and medical care capabilities, review emergency and medication management protocols, and confirm costs and contract terms to supplement the strongly positive impressions found in these reviews.

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    About Benevolent Adult Family Homes

    Benevolent Adult Family Homes is an adult family home with several locations in Kirkland, Kenmore, and Lynnwood, WA, known for offering care to seniors and adults who need daily help or memory care, with a focus on people with dementia, Alzheimer's, behavioral needs, and other complex medical conditions, and the homes provide 24-hour support from a skilled team including managers, a Nurse Delegator, a Resident Manager, a care coordinator, and assistants, with leadership from Dyah 'Dee' Sulistyaningrum, a Certified Nursing Assistant working on an LPN certification, and they've kept a solid tradition in elder care since 2004 when the first home in Kenmore, Serene Corner AFH, received its license, which is 754951. Residents can choose from private or semi-private rooms in homelike settings that aim to be warm and full of kindness, and services cover bathing, grooming, help with medication, diabetes management, wound care, and injections. They manage chronic illnesses like Parkinson's, COPD, congestive heart failure, diabetes, and provide support for people with trach tubes and feeding tubes, along with care for those who are bed-bound and using equipment like Hoyer Lifts. The homes make sure meals are home-cooked and fit dietary needs, and there are dining rooms, safety features, washer and dryers, cable TV, access for people with disabilities, lounges, guest parking, and internet, and they let residents have pets under certain rules and allow smoking as their policy states. Management is always available if care needs come up, but front office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and visiting hours stretch from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., while the nursing staff and care assistants offer help day or night, including for needs like mobility, insulin shots, hospice care, memory care, or management of mental health. Residents with visual or hearing impairments or developmental disabilities receive proper help and social programs, and there are options for people using Medicare, Medicaid, or long term care insurance, plus the team helps guide families through understanding care types, cost, and what to expect to find the right fit, encouraging tours, reviewing inspection records, and talking with doctors. Folks can take part in activities, exercise, arts, and meal programs designed to keep everyone engaged and respected, while housekeeping, laundry, and property features keep things comfortable without giving up privacy. Each home follows state guidelines, has been spotlighted by Assisted Living Magazine as a notable place in Kirkland, WA, and remains family-owned with a deep understanding of seniors' needs, always aiming to keep their residents safe, respected, and at home in a peaceful spot, all while making sure they're met with a reputation for warmth and thoroughness in care. More information sits at benevolentadultfamilyhomes.com.

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