Buckner Retirement Services

Good place to live.

The associates at Parkway work hard taking care of our needs and scheduling interesting activities. Those who work here and live here are very friendly.

I am content living here.

I have lived at Calder Woods 5 years. The people that live here are very nice and pleasant. We have many games we play for fun such as 42, bridge, bingo, and others. We have exercise classes also swim classes. We have a library with many books to read. Colder Wood is a good place to live.

Our family had an in person tour and we liked the community but they do not integrate their assisted living folks with the senior living folks which is something I did not really like. However, the room sizes were very nice but the community just gave off a different vibe.

We have lived here for 6 years and love it. Of course, there will always be situations. our one big care is security. (gates with no locks, entrance and exit gate open 6am-9pm.) Most people that move to retirement homes are looking for security.

I would recommend this community for your loved one. The staff were good and perfect with my loved one.

The community is clean, the aids are very kind and they care about the residents. We would recommend this community, however for a non-profit community the value for cost is extremely extensive. But we are very satisfied and pleased with it overall.

I toured this facility while looking for a place for my Aunt. They told us about the activities they provided like games and trips; they even had a hair dresser. However, they wouldn’t allow pets and that ultimately was what made us decide against moving her in. The man that gave us the tour introduced us to a lot of the other staff members and everyone we met was very friendly. The dining area was nice and the food was good. The cleanliness was good and we were told that housekeeping cleans the rooms weekly. The way they had it decorated looked bright and cheery but you could tell it was dated. The room we looked at was nice, though, and a little bit bigger than other places we had seen

I like this community when we visited. The people we met were friendly and helpful. The community seemed clean. They did not have an opening when we visited.

My mother recently moved here from another community and it is going very well. The place is clean and the staff is all very friendly. They are taking good care of her.

I am very happy with the community. They keep the community very clean. The staff are nice and assist with her needs. She is happy with the meals and variety. They are offering her activities that she is enjoying. I would recommend this community for the good care, but the it is a little costly. I am very happy that this is a closer to location so that I can visit more often.

We toured here when we were looking for a place. It was very nice and we really liked it. It was just too expensive for what we could afford. It was clean, and everyone was friendly. It looked like a good place.

The services rely on the resident to initiate them. If you have a resident who doesn't want to be a burden or a problem, that might not be the best for the resident. I think they need to do a little more to initiate the services. I think we chose them for their ability to accommodate us, initially.

My mother only just moved in but she's doing great. The people are friendly. Buckner has been around for a while. I think it's based on more of a ministry. I think it started as an orphanage back in Dallas so it probably has other things helping it moving along.

Total redo of the property. Saw example of the new apartments on villas. Liked the idea of 3 levels of care in one place.

They are just super but my mom didn't go there. Their assisted living was on the small side. They only had about 38 in assisted living so you would get a whole lot more personal attention. Mother's favorite doctor is the medical director there so that's what she liked about it. Plus it's new but mother didn't care for the location. It's two blocks off I35 so the location is not desirable but that's mainly the only negative. When you're there and you're living there you have a different perspective. The people that we know living there really like it.

Facility and apartments are great….Residents are phenomenal…..service staff is great and now the Bad…..the 14-16% increase in one year of the monthly fee is catastrophic…. Either there was initial bad planning or inferior executive management….. I suspect the last…..an increase of [amount removed]k per year for many people who are on fixed income is a slap in the face for those any who paid much of their life savings to purchase an apartment…. There are many that are now considering moving to alternative housing.

It's a hard time to find a place that's perfect because of the lack of employees. There just weren't enough staff to provide the care that my loved one needed, especially in regards to getting to the bathroom. They're very receptive when you talk to them with concerns and say they'll get things done, but then it just never gets resolved. They never even got her her own mailbox the whole time she was there. The facility itself was clean. I always saw people cleaning, and they kept my loved one's room clean for the most part.

Chaplain [name removed] excellent, needs more help here. Lake here needs cleaning. We love it here but needs some improving. Food is so so, could improve the menu.