Montecito Oakmont Senior Living

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• Google5/5

  Oakmont of Montecito was a godsend when looking for a welcoming place in 2023 that would accept my Mom with dementia into the assisted living side while she was still high functioning. She was treated with respect, even when she was difficult. When it was time to transition to Traditions memory care, Pat, the director, and Maria, director of nursing, were kind and compassionate. They listened to my worries about the move, while also advocating in my Mom's best interest for her care. Her main caregiver, Rosa, gained her trust with her gentle appproach. The activities team keeps people engaged and the physical therapist even worked to get her mobility treatments on track. I will be forever grateful for this group of wonderful people.

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  Sep 22, 2026

• A Place for Mom4/5

  We're glad we chose Montecito

  There is a very friendly community. They have done a good job of inviting my mom to participate even though she's reluctant. When she does participate, she enjoys it. Floor staff seems to be always in a hurry. It would be nice if they took a.little time to get to know the new residents. Food could be better. Their every day menu could be expanded and the daily specials should taste better. Meal times should be extended. Dinner ending at 630 is too early for my mom so she has to get it to go and reheat it later. Overall we've been pleased. She's been there about 7 weeks and is settling in nicely.

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  Danielle G. · Family member

  Jul 9, 2026

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• A Place for Mom4/5

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  Overall experience has been positive. Food was better when my mom moved in but there was a change in c h ef so food not as good. However, there is a good selection of food. Help is generally good but a little inconsistent. Place is very clean. Activities are generally good but not that much participation in activities. On boarding pretty weak. People are nice and helpful but a little clicky. Apartment size is good.

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  Family member

  Oct 31, 2025

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• Google1/5

  This place should be negative stars and shut down. Sure it looks nice, the food is good and the actives are fun for the residence but what about safety. When the electricity goes out, nothing works. No backup systems. Phones are out, place is dark and no staff bothers to check on residence. Separately, my dad lived here for 8 years and needed to use his emergency call button 3 times. All 3 times it didn't work. The most resent was 3 weeks ago 9/14/25, the other times were in 2024 and earlier. All 3 times we complained, had meetings and got the foolishly accepted their polished excuses. Stuck laying on the floor for countless hours. My Mom died in 2021 at Oakmont in her bathroom. She probably hit the emergency call button then too but it didn't work. Oakmont cares about one thing, money.

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  Sep 27, 2025

• Caring.com1/5

  When it comes to what's truly important, safety of the elderly residents during emergencies, the Oakmont doesn't bother spending one dime or any time setting up programs. When power goes out, all systems fail. This includes phones etc. When the power does work, they answer phones 50% of the time. They don't bother making sure emergency pendants work. My Dad had to use this pedant 3 times over the 8 years he was there and all 3 times it didn't work so when he fell, he was stuck on the floor. We paid a lot of money and sure the food is okay and the place looks nice. The staff is like used car salesman, slick but when it really comes to it, they don't care. The want to sell you a great looking car for a lot of money but don't want to fix what's under the hood, just tell you it runs great when it doesn't.

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  Family member

  Sep 27, 2025

• A Place for Mom4/5

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  What stood out the most is that Everyone is friendly and helpful. There are very good and courteous staff.

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  Family member

  Jun 30, 2025

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• A Place for Mom5/5

  Friendly and helpful staff, combined with friendly and nice residents

  I would rate it 5. Meeting and exceeding our expectations. Oakmont of Montecito is wonderful! The residents and staff are all friendly and helpful. We couldn't be happier. The first two weeks here, mom constantly asked when we were bringing her home. Now she has a cadre of people she recognizes and interacts with and she realizes this is the best place for her.

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  Family member

  Jun 19, 2025

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• A Place for Mom5/5

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  It's very nice place rooms and care are good. Expensive but good . Quality , staff and close to family

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  Family member

  Mar 21, 2025

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• Caring.com5/5

  I don't think there was anything we didn't like about Oakmont of Montecito. We were very impressed with the facilities and very impressed with the staff. We have a friend who lives there, and we happened to look at it and see her at lunchtime. She was telling us that she enjoyed living there and that it was a great place. Mikayla was the senior marketing director who gave us the tour. She did a wonderful job. I love listening to her talk. The staff was very nice. Everybody was engaged, including the waiters in the dining room and the reception area. Then Mikayla showed us around. It's a very wonderful facility. The food was great. Everybody had already gone away because it was like 1:30, but they prepared a nice lunch for us in very generous portions. They tasted very good. My husband had a cheeseburger and I had some avocado tacos and iced tea. They offered us dessert, and we said no, thank you, but it was very well prepared, just the way we liked it. Everything was immaculate. We know they offer different exercise classes and they have a lot of game rooms. They play bingo, poker, bridge, and all kinds of different activities for the residents. We saw a poker game as we were walking by the room where they were playing.

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  Family member

  Oct 5, 2024

• A Place for Mom5/5

  Oakmont of Montecito review

  The meals and dining is getting better and it is a very nice place to live but it is expensive. Based on the experience I have had so far, I would recommend this community to other families

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  Resident

  Aug 20, 2024

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• Caring.com5/5

  Oakmont of Montecito was excellent. I liked their facilities. It was a little older but still well-maintained. I think they're in the process of a refresh and they were getting new furniture, new paint, cleaning it up, and making it modern. I liked that they had a pool. My dad's a big walker and right behind them was a trail into Newhall Park, which has lovely walking trails and green areas. So, that was a big plus for us. The memory care was nice. The only thing was the people were a little more progressed in their journey for memory care so I wasn't sure that was quite the right fit for my dad, being early onset in his journey, but I felt that they were engaging the people the best that they could and it looked like a very loving and caring facility.

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  Visitor

  Mar 26, 2024

• Caring.com5/5

  Oakmont of Montecito was a really nice facility, but it was too expensive for our budget. They were excellent and phenomenal. The people seemed very happy. They have a beautiful building and great amenities internally. They had a great walking area, which was very secure as to where people could hang out. The support staff was very friendly and supportive. The rooms were very nice. They also serve two to three meals a day, including on weekends. They also helped with laundry service. Overall, it was a great place. I think it was very inclusive at that price. The manager has been there for a very long time. She's very experienced and super helpful. They put 30 percent of the rooms at a lower cost, and I thought that was a nice feature for the facility. The menu looked great, and the people looked happy.

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  Visitor

  Dec 7, 2023

• A Place for Mom5/5

  Amazing staff - my experience

  The quality with which every thing done stood out to us.

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  Resident

  Oct 13, 2023

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• Caring.com3/5

  Oakmont of Montecito was extremely expensive, and the average age was 82. That's too old, and we're kind of looking at the time for assisted living so my loved one and I could be together, but the staff was very nice, accommodating, and forthright with expenses and costs. The facility was very nice and very clean.

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  Visitor

  Oct 6, 2023

• Caring.com5/5

  The staff at Oakmont of Montecito was super nice. The grounds were beautiful. They had a lot of really cool activities. The way that they had their restaurant set up and everything was nice. It was as if they were going to go out to dinner together at a restaurant certainly. It was a very nice place. They did everything well. I visited the rooms and it was just like trying to find a nice apartment for yourself. It reminded me of some of the nicer apartment complexes when I used to get an apartment when I was younger. It was nicer than I expected. It was very clean and looked like it was probably recently updated. The menu looked like it had a lot of different choices that were cool. I visited other places and Oakmont of Montecito was by far, exceedingly the nicest location I have been in. They were like an upper scale, it seemed to me, compared to some of the other ones. Everyone I interacted with was super nice. I met some of the maintenance and not only were they super nice, but they were doing a good job fixing up one of the units that was coming available. I also met some of the general staff and some of the logistics people that run the facility and they were all nice. They were going to have music in the courtyard that evening and there were a whole bunch of other people getting together and doing fun things together, like playing chess or doing a craft together. It looked like a fun place to be.

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  Visitor

  Jul 3, 2023

• Caring.com4/5

  Oakmont of Montecito was lovely. They were on a 5-acre piece of ground, so it was quite large, and quite spread out, and we were welcomed very warmly. We had their regular menu. I didn't have the special, it was just their meal of the day, and it was okay, but not wonderful. For a one bedroom, for the price, they seemed small. One of the things that was clear about them is the longevity of staff there. Folks like working there. And my experience was they were happy and very welcoming. The dining area was very spacious. It was very nicely appointed. We ate in the main dining room, I could hear the people there, and the voices sounded happy. There was laughter. We were very graciously served. There seemed to be quite a number of folks who were independent. They appeared to be independent in terms of, they didn't have someone taking them around. They were getting themselves around.

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  Mar 3, 2023

• A Place for Mom5/5

  A great place for Mom and piece of mind

  We have had both parents and currently mom staying at Montecito.. experiencing Assisted Living and now Memory Care. It has been and continues to be a journey. We are so very grateful to have the staff and caregivers on our team through it all. Dementia is a terrible disease for the one suffering as well as for the family. We are truly grateful for the staff's continued love and support through the good and the very difficult. This team, our team is amazing! They do not give up- always looking out for mom and keeping her best interest, health, comfort and dignity at the forefront. Their care and resolve is genuine, professional and tenacious. It is life changing for the family We highly recommend Montecito Concord- we are not sure you can find a better team anywhere

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  Debbie W. · Family member

  Jan 1, 2023

• A Place for Mom5/5

  Teams Win!

  Ten years ago, we made the decision to move my parents into Montecito as my mother’s health was declining and the ability to care for my parents became more challenging. We chose Montecito because it had all of the services that we required for both of my parents. My mother was in the early stages of dementia and my father needed to downsize and simplify to a safer environment that had the day-to-day services they required immediately, as well as longer term memory care services. I learned a long time ago in the business world, that “Teams Win”. I can tell you that Montecito has a Great Team with the right personnel in place to care for a wide range of residents with multiple needs. My father still resides at Montecito, and the care and support he gets today is even better than it was ten years ago!

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  Joseph F. · Family member

  Dec 23, 2022

• A Place for Mom5/5

  Montecito gave me peace of mind

  The Montecito has been a life saver for our family. Watching my dad be the happiest that I have ever seen. Dad still wanted to stay at home. But we finally got him into the Montecito with a lot of pushing. I have never seen him smile and have fun with so many new friends. I would tell my friends that it felt like a college dorm with everybody enjoying everybody! His favorite was playing poker twice a week. Dad also loved the happy hour. When I would come to visit, the staff included me in everything. Such a kind, warm environment. People really care about you.

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  Sandy B. · Family member

  Dec 22, 2022

• A Place for Mom5/5

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  Montecito and it’s staff have been a blessing and answer to our prayers! In the beginning of this new, unfamiliar territory, and chapter for Mom, and us, they answered every question, guided us, step by step, helping with what felt like huge decisions to even small things. Knowing Mom is happy, comfortable, safe, and enjoying herself is everything!

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  Georgeanne M. · Family member

  Dec 22, 2022