SharonBrooke

All of my family live in Newark, so my grandmother, three of my great aunts, and multiple family friends, have chosen Sharon Brooke because they believed it provided an upscale assisted living environment. They were certainly wrong. I’ve seen person after person start a rapid downhill deterioration after moving in — mostly due to poor oversight, lack of intellectual and physical stimulation, and poor nutrition.
Sharon Brooke is one of the worst senior living facilities I’ve seen — especially in recent years. It used to have a reputation as a nice place to live if you need a little extra help, but now it has done down hill so far that it’s among the worst. And now days, they are doubling up — meaning that there are now two, instead of one, to each tiny room, and the dining hall is a crazy mess because they can’t keep serving staff.
Although it is quite expensive, the food is truly an embarrassment, there are few activities to keep active seniors active mentally and physically, and the staff are so over worked that they are not friendly and on occasion even hand out the wrong medications. They certainly didn’t notice when one of my relatives was so out of sorts (due to getting confused and overdosing on a medication) that when I visited, she was putting nose spray in her ears. She was so obviously sick and out of it, but staff didn’t notice or care, and family had to raise the alarm and send her to the hospital. It was a very serious situation, and Sharon Brooke couldn’t have cared less.
The one good thing I can say about Sharon Brooke is that their facilitates look nice. They should — it’s where any small amount of money they spend on the place goes.
In sum, try to avoid this place. If someone you love wants to live here, please do keep a very close eye on them — because Sharon Brooke won’t.