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- The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living
7300 Watersong Lane, Melbourne, FL, 32940
Community Information
The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living is an assisted living facility in Melbourne, FL. The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living provides meals for residents.
Staff is awake and available 24 hours a day so if any emergencies occur no matter the time, there will be someone ready to help.
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Residents
MaleFemaleThe minimum age that a resident may be is 65 years old.
Staffing
Nurses on StaffDoctor on Call24-Hour Awake StaffVisiting NurseVisiting PodiatristVisiting DentistVisiting Physical TherapistVisiting Occupational TherapistVisiting Speech Therapist
Facility Care Level
Care Level Percentage Light Care % Medium Care % Heavy Care % The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living prefers that residents need: light care, medium care, heavy care
Additional Services
Diabetic Care
This community offers diabetes care and can offer insulin injections, including sliding scale therapy.
Memory Care Offered
This community employs technology to prevent residents from wandering and becoming lost, for example bracelets that will ring an alarm if the resident leaves the community. The memory care area of this community is secured to protect the safety of residents who wander. This community's memory care section can accept residents with major behavior issues.
Incontinence Care
Incontinent residents must be able to manage incontinence themselves. This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom. This community can care for residents with bowel incontinence. This community can care for residents with bladder incontinence.
Non Ambulatory Care
This community can provide a 1 person assisted transfer for residents who need help transferring, for example, from a bed into a wheelchair.
Other Care
This community can accept residents who are an elopement risk. This community provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
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Transportation
Resident Parking AvailableComplimentary TransportationTransportation at CostProperty Convenient to BuslineSmoking
Additional Amenities
Activities OnsiteActivities OffsiteDevotional Services OnsiteDevotional Services OffsiteOutdoor Common AreasIndoor Common AreasBeautician OnsiteOther Services
Wheelchair Accessible ShowersRespite OfferedAging in PlaceSwimming Pool / Hot TubMeals
Meals ProvidedActivities Provided
A wide variety of activities are available including trips to Walmart, local parks and beaches, the Brevard Zoo and the Theatre. We also feature a bike club, an walking club, chair aerobics, arts and crafts, baking and of course Bingo! -
Average Room Pricing at The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living
Room Type Assisted Living Studio 3760.00 Monthly 1 Bedroom 5610.00 Monthly Semi-Private 2 Bedrooms Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Estimated Fees at The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living
Fee Type Assisted Living Community Fee 2500.00 One-time Respite Fee 180.00 Daily Buy-In Fee High Care Needs Fee Medium Care Needs Fee Low Care Needs Fee 2nd Person Fee 1000.00 Monthly Disclaimer: The prices, amenities, features and care offered at senior communities are all subject to change; therefore information on this community profile may be out of date. Please note the costs per community are rough estimates; actual costs may vary depending on special offers and discounts, additional fees for services and care, and availability.
Paying for care
Commercial InsurancePrivate paySocial SecuritySeparate pricing structure for careVeteran's benefits
Nearby Communities
If The Brennity at Melbourne Senior Living isn't quite what you're looking for, take a look at a few other nearby communities that might be a better match.
Nearby Cities
City | Distance | Number of Facilities | Average CostAverage Cost for 1 Bedroom |
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Melbourne | 0 miles | 9 | $4,380 |
West Melbourne | 4 miles | 2 | $3,370 |
Palm Bay | 5 miles | 2 | $4,270 |
Rockledge | 20 miles | 1 | N/A |
Sebastian | 23 miles | 1 | N/A |
Vero Beach | 28 miles | 8 | $3,440 |
General Pricing Information for Melbourne Assisted Living
Room Type | Minimum Cost | Average Cost | Maximum Cost |
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1 Bedroom | $3,700 | $4,385 | $5,610 |
2 Bedrooms | $3,900 | $4,420 | $4,900 |
Semi-Private | $1,865 | $2,340 | $2,650 |
Studio | $2,365 | $3,135 | $3,760 |
Community Reviews
Seemed like a nice place!
reviewed on: 02/05/2015 by AnonymousWe toured this community while looking into care options for a loved one. I really liked that the medications were kept in the patients room. Really clean atmosphere. I really felt like Sue, the director, was more concerned about my parents getting into the right place than getting into her community. The rooms were a little small, though.
Grateful for Assistance
reviewed on: 07/01/2015 by JanBoth my parents have lived at The Brennity in Assisted Living (AL) for almost a year, which is not their first AL facility to reside in. What I have learned in all my experiences with facilities (even in 2 different states) is that virtually all of them have handicaps to deal with, mostly thanks to state and federal law requirements out of their control. But I have to say that The Brennity tries to make things as good as they can be for their residents. If it’s who I think it is, I am acquainted with the “unruly resident in the dining room” who was noted by another responder, and know that his unruliness is the result of a stroke (strokes have handicapped many a person in such facilities and affected them in similar or other ways). This “unruly” resident is harmless and the noises he makes are outside of his control and only on occasion--much of of the time he is quiet with distractions like reading or eating. I think it is a bit unreasonable to judge an AL facility by these kinds of harmless behaviors, as many residents in AL facilities have their own issues too. They have seen their better days, and I would say most family members understand this and don’t expect the residents to always act as they did in their younger years. Compassion, and some amount of tolerance and acceptance are necessary in AL facilities. After all, we never know when we ourselves may be in their shoes and may require some extra patience. I’ve learned there’s a thin line between taking good care of those who require more patience, and keeping happy or satisfied others whose patience is lacking. In all, I give kudos to The Brennity and its staff for trying to do what is impossible to be done perfectly—who understand the diversity of the aged and do all within their ability to make life tolerable and comfortable for their residents, each of whom are in different places both mentally and physically.
Brennity - once great, now mediocre for assisted living
reviewed on: 04/08/2014 by AnonymousBrennity's quality and services were amazing when I first looked into it. When I moved my parent into the facility, the care was excellent. I was contacted with every fall or medical concern. Over the last few months, the quality has gone downhill. My parent's blood pressure has gone from normal to high and we have not been contacted, has been left in a room so unbearably hot it felt like a sauna when I walked in. The request has been made for assistance with exercise and it has not been honored after repeated requests. The big selling point was the "excellent food" that could be made to order in the dining room. Today we were told that it's no longer made to order and that residents would need pre-order their "made to order" meals. What? When a parent is in assisted living, are they really able to plan what they want to eat for lunch when they are eating breakfast? It appears to us that Brennity is having some issues and for the cost, the level of service is extremely poor. They have been shuffling management and employees around and the ratio of employees to residents has gone down. I will be pulling my parent out of their assisted living facility. I could pay less for the level of care my parent is receiving.
I really liked it, and wanted to have mom here.
reviewed on: 03/26/2015 by Loved OneWe toured here when we were looking into options. I really liked it, and wanted to have mom here. However there were no openings when we needed it. It's obviously a very nice place, since they have no room.
The Independent living side was very nice
reviewed on: 03/31/2015 by Lynn FirestoneThe Independent living side was very nice, the people were very happy there, the rooms were big, and they have lots of staff. However the Assisted Living portion, I was unimpressed. They were actually having an open house, and I just ended up there. The person giving the tour wasn't very familiar with the assisted living side, so they couldn't answer all of my questions. They are a huge community. I wasn't impressed with the rooms, they were on the smaller side, and some of them doubled up. I saw a person out front kinda slumped over in a wheel chair. I would have thought that since they were having an open house that it would be at its very best. They have had some struggles. And are going through a transition, with an owner change. I would have to say the smell was the worst part, I couldn't say if someone just had an accident or if it smelled that way all the time, but it seemed to be throughout the entire wing. I don't feel this would be a good fit for my mom.