Magnolia of Millbrae

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• Caring.com4/5

  I toured The Magnolia of Millbrae. I liked that everyone was very friendly, especially the staff. The community area was very clean and inviting. The staff was very helpful and very pleasant. The atmosphere, I felt very warm like I would like to be there. The layout was fine. The size of the apartment was too small for what we were looking for.

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  Visitor

  May 31, 2024

• Caring.com5/5

  Magnolia of Millbrae was a large community. It's like one full block. It was spacious but was a little bit too large for my mother. I didn't think she could kind of navigate the area. The staff and everybody were very nice though. We had lunch there and it was excellent. The facility was clean, spacious, and beautiful. It's updated.

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  Visitor

  Sep 18, 2022

• Caring.com5/5

  I went to The Magnolia of Millbrae. It's very nice, but very expensive. Anybody would want to go there. It's beautiful, it's very nice, they have three meals a day, they have housekeeping and laundry, and they have a lot of things for you to do during the day. You can choose to participate or not. It's just very nice -- nice grounds, everything. We know two people who reside there. I've been there at Christmastime, and we've had meals as a guest, so I was very familiar with the place.

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  Family member

  Mar 16, 2021

• Caring.com4/5

  The Magnolia of Millbrae was a good place. The dining area was really formal. It was a large room where everything was pleasant. The apartments were large and we saw a corner apartment which had a lot more lights than the others. It was very nice. The staff was very kind and very willing to help. Obviously, the owners care about what goes on there because it's being kept up beautifully.

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  Visitor

  Apr 30, 2018

• Caring.com5/5

  Magnolia of Millbrae was done very well, from the lodging, to the food, and the atmosphere. They have trips and I'm going there next week for lunch with some of my friends that live there. The food is delicious.

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  Visitor

  Apr 30, 2018

• Caring.com5/5

  My experience with Magnolia of Milbrae has been favorable. We have lectures, movies, a book club, Mahjong, Bridge, Poker, speakers who come in, and trips. We also have transportation to appointments, laundry, housekeeping, and meals served in our apartments. The staff is very friendly.

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  Resident

  Apr 3, 2018

• Caring.com3/5

  All of the amenities mentioned by others are there. But. The cost went up dramatically in past year and they are about to do another round of increases. The issue: The cost of living on SF Peninsula is out of control. The low pay caretakers needed at these facilities can't afford to live there. These facilities are all competing for the same dwindling number of employees and therefore must keep raising salaries and/or cutting caretaker quality and response. Cost for my relative has gone from 6500/mo to 8500 in two years and going up again. This is particularly true for those needing daily assistance.

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  Wayward S. · Family member

  Mar 7, 2018

• Caring.com5/5

  Magnolia of Millbrae was very nice and left me with a positive impression. The rooms were fairly spacious. There was a very nice dining area with a good menu and good chef. The people were very nice.

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  Visitor

  Feb 1, 2017

• Caring.com5/5

  Magnolia of Millbrae is magnificent. The rooms are all 1-bedroom and 2-bedrooms, and they have no fancy studios. Every room has a full kitchen, a refrigerator, a stove, and a microwave. The rooms are luxurious, and the furniture in the hallways and entryway is almost the best you could get from the 1950s and 60s. The least expensive room is $5700, but they have a point system.

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  Visitor

  Nov 17, 2016

• Caring.com5/5

  My mother likes Magnolia of Millbrae. She is meeting people and she seems to be settling in to the living arrangement and making friends. They do have activities and she is participating in some of them. She is starting to go to the morning exercise classes that they have, which is a good thing. They would take her if she has an appointment, but it has to be scheduled in advance.

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  Family member

  Feb 29, 2016

• Caring.com4/5

  My mother-in-law was living at the Magnolia of Millbrae. It was a very lovely facility. It was first-class, but she needed assisted-living, and it was also getting to be expensive. She lived there for ten years. She enjoyed it, but it was her choice to move. It was mainly because of the cost, and it didn’t seem as vibrant as the new place. They have a lot of music, but I think they need more activities for people to do.

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  Belmont G. · Family member

  Feb 20, 2016

• Caring.com4/5

  I visited Magnolia of Millbrae for my parents. It seemed nice. The rooms were fine; they were nice. Amenities seemed reasonable, too. The staff was accommodating.

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  Visitor

  Feb 11, 2016

• Caring.com5/5

  I think Magnolia of Millbrae is very nice. The staff is very helpful. It’s a pleasant environment and very clean; it’s been a positive experience. My sister has a one-bedroom apartment with a kitchen, full bath, washer and dryer, bedroom, and living room. It seems like a good place. Based on observation, the people here seem to be pretty happy. They have a lot of activities for them, especially on holidays. The food is excellent, which is one of the reasons I picked this place.

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  Family member

  Nov 7, 2015

• Caring.com4/5

  The one in California that I was looking at was The Magnolia of Millbrae. It was a very nice warm place. It was very expensive, and it might be a little too dressy for me, but I do like the location. It was in walking distance to the buses, and it was fairly close to my daughter. The disadvantage of it was, I was going from a five-bedroom home down to a one or two-bedroom facility, which was hard. However, the rooms were nicely and tastefully done. It had a nice small kitchen, an eating area and a nice living room. One bedroom was a fairly good size bedroom with a walk-in closet. I thought the friendliness of the staff stood out to me. I looked at several places, but Magnolia was the only one that fitted my particular needs and I like the Bay area.

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  Visitor

  Oct 19, 2015

• Caring.com5/5

  It was mostly a case of availability why we chose The Magnolia of Millbrae and, of course, it is probably the top facility in the whole area. It has the most amenities, and it's got very high ratings for food. We probably looked at six or seven different facilities in the area, and it definitely had the largest single bedroom and they had one available at the right time that we were moving them. Also, the fact that they didn't have to move when they got reclassified as assisted living. That was a major point against our other choice, but they would have had to move again and this one move just about killed them. They have only been there three weeks today, and they have no complaints. My aunt is extremely happy and my uncle a little less so, but he's got a lot of health problems. The staff is great and the food, they are absolutely over the moon about it.

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  Family member

  Oct 3, 2014

• A Place for Mom5/5

  They loved it there.

  They loved it there. It is independent living. Each room had it's own little kitchen and a microwave but they ate meals in the dining room. the service was nice and they had a lot of activities going on. It was a beautiful place.

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  Family member

  Jan 9, 2014

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• Caring.com5/5

  Magnolia of Millbrae facility was gorgeous. It was just like a hotel though very expensive. However, it wouldn't have applied to my mother's situation because she ended up needing hospice care and they don't have that kind of service there.

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  Visitor

  Jun 7, 2013

• Caring.com5/5

  The Magnolia was far too expensive. It's okay for people who have a lot of money. But I couldn't afford it. So I don't consider it as a place I would go to eventually. I talked a little bit with their marketing director and looked at their apartments. She was very pleasant and answered all our questions. Magnolia is a nice place. They have good food, nice facilities, and the apartments are adequate. I had no complaints. It's just that when I found out what it cost, I said that's not for me.

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  Visitor

  Apr 26, 2013

• Caring.com5/5

  My great grandfather spent the last year of his life living in Magnolia and he absolutely loved it. It is such a wonderful facility, filled with caring staff and lively residents. They offer a variety of fun activities for residents including in-house movie nights, trips to museums and ballgames. Their dining room is the center of the social scene. Their staff cared so well for my great grandfather during his last few months and a few of them even showed up at his funeral when he passed away.

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  Visitor

  Sep 26, 2012

• Caring.com5/5

  My mother was a 3-1/2 year resident of The Magnolia. Thier staff was caring and very efficient in their daily tasks. The facility is something out of a Home and Garden Magazine. It has a pool, a beauty shop and even a candy shop! Every year at Christmas time, the facility's owner throws a huge over the top party for the residents and thier friends and family. The food is magnificent and is there in abundance. The residents get all dressed up in their finest Christmas garb and kick the holiday's off in style. The apartments are available in 1or 2 bedrooms and each has a dishwasher and washer and dryer. The bathrooms are set up for the ease in bathing and in entering and exiting. All thought is given to the residets. The facility also has buses that can transport the resident to downtown Millbrae for shopping or to a doctor's appointment. Millbrae is a darling small community south of San Francisco. The weather is very agreeable and the friendliness of a small town is very apparent.

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  Jul 1, 2012