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114 Riverside Avenue, New Bedford, MA 02746
Care provided: Assisted Living, Retirement Communities
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  • Community Information

    Whalers Cove is an assisted living facility in New Bedford, MA. Whalers Cove 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 Whalers Cove 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 Whalers Cove 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.

    Unique Features

    * Urban setting in a very old section of town
    * Located on the water in an old mill building, remodeled to look absolutely fantastic
    * Nice, large apartments with high ceilings and huge floor to ceiling windows
  • Residents

    Nurse
    Male
    Female

    The minimum age that a resident may be is 62 years old.


    Staffing

    Nurses on Staff
    24-Hour Awake Staff
    Visiting Nurse
    Homecare Onsite
    Visiting Podiatrist
    Visiting Physical Therapist
    Visiting Occupational Therapist
    Visiting Speech Therapist


    Facility Care Level

    Care Level Percentage
    Light Care 0%
    Medium Care 100%
    Heavy Care 0%

    Whalers Cove prefers that residents need: light care, medium care

    Additional Services

    Diabetic Care
    Diabetic residents must be able to manage their own care, including blood sugar tests and insulin injections.

    Memory Care Offered
    The community's memory care section is in its own building.

    Incontinence Care
    Incontinent residents must be able to manage incontinence themselves. This staff at this community can remind incontinent residents to use the restroom.

    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 provides multiple levels of care allowing residents to remain at the community while receiving increasing care.
     
  • Transportation

    Resident Parking Available
    Complimentary Transportation
    Transportation at Cost
    Property Convenient to Busline

    Smoking

    Allowed Outdoors

    Additional Amenities

    Activities Onsite
    Activities Offsite
    Devotional Services Onsite
    Outdoor Common Areas
    Indoor Common Areas
    Beautician Onsite

    Other Services

    Wheelchair Accessible Showers
    Hospice Available
    Respite Offered
    Aging in Place

    Meals

    Meals Provided

    Activities Provided

    Our residents can access activities within the assisted living as well as out in the local community. Residents may enjoy musical entertainment, painting classes, exercise, religious services, games and educational programs at Whaler's Cove. In addition, residents may choose to join us on outings to the grocery store, retail shops, casino, restaurants, ice cream shops and much more!
  • Average Room Pricing at Whalers Cove

    Room Type Assisted Living
    Studio 3600.00 Monthly
    1 Bedroom 4075.00 Monthly
    Semi-Private
    2 Bedrooms 4700.00 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.


    Estimated Fees at Whalers Cove

    Fee Type Assisted Living
    Community Fee 1500.00 One-time
    Respite Fee 180.00 Daily
    Buy-In Fee
    High Care Needs Fee 1200.00 Monthly
    Medium Care Needs Fee 850.00 Monthly
    Low Care Needs Fee 600.00 Monthly
    2nd Person Fee 1800.00 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 Insurance
    Private pay
    Social Security
    Separate pricing structure for care
    Veteran's benefits

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Nearby Cities

City Distance Number of Facilities Average CostAverage Cost for 1 Bedroom
New Bedford0 miles1$4,080
Fairhaven1 miles1$5,800
Dartmouth4 miles3$5,250
Fall River13 miles1$3,250
Tiverton15 miles1N/A
Falmouth17 miles1$6,880

General Pricing Information for New Bedford Assisted Living

Room Type Minimum Cost Average Cost Maximum Cost
1 Bedroom$4,075$4,075$4,075
2 Bedrooms$4,700$4,700$4,700
Studio$3,600$3,600$3,600

Community Reviews

Overall I'm very impressed by what I'...

reviewed on: 03/03/2014 by J O

Overall I'm very impressed by what I've seen of this place! It's a very nice looking facility, it's very spacious and well decorated, and they keep it very clean. The staff all seemed very... Read the full review.

Large living spaces (twice ...

reviewed on: 12/19/2013 by A Place For Mom Customer

Large living spaces (twice the size of all the others) Large interior common areas. No apparent outdoor area other than the street sidewalk. Dad and E liked this place and knew some of the folks.

Angels to help!

reviewed on: 03/28/2015 by Rosa

Thanks to the Whaler's Cove staff to making the decision to join their community an easy one. From day 1, my Dad was welcomed and had everything done to make his transition as simple as possible.... Read the full review.

The staff is friendly, people that are there are friendly

reviewed on: 11/03/2021 by Alan H

We visited this community years ago when we first started this process and we were very impressed. We toured it again just recently before moving our loved one in and they did a great job... Read the full review.

Very poorly run

reviewed on: 10/19/2018 by Rick

I would not recommend whalers cove to my worst enemy. My mom complained numerous times about not getting her pain meds in a timely fashion. After she passed I scheduled salvation army to pick up... Read the full review.

 
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