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Best of 2025 Senior Living Award Winners: Independent Living

Top Independent Living Communities

These are the best independent living communities of 2025, representing the top 1-2% of senior living providers nationwide based on reviews. Families and residents celebrated the friendly staff, beautiful facilities, delicious food, and engaging activities.

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StoryPoint Knoxville West

8501 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37922

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
83 reviews

StoryPoint is a facility that provides excellent care overall. The administration oversees day to day operations and addresses issues that arise promptly and always with the resident's wellbeing as the...

Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Welcome to StoryPoint Knoxville West! This isn’t just a place to reside — it’s a place where our community members truly shine, and we are glad to share this experience with them. Our senior living options include assisted living and memory care. Throughout each service level, we strive to make...

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Brookdale Meridian Arvada

9555 West 59th Avenue, Arvada, CO 80004

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
115 reviews

When we were trying to get my dad approved for VA benefits everyone was cooperative, then when the new VA forms came out in 2023 all of a sudden they would not sign the necessary forms. They claim it was the...

Most Friendly
Provides: Independent Living
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Among many, one big point of difference that makes us unique is our level of service and amazing team. Starting with our Executive Director, Daniel Cooke, who has been with Brookdale for over 7 years and has a background in caregiving. Our Associate Executive Director, Chris Blake, has been a...

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Silver Lakes Senior Living

509 Pineview Ave, Glencoe, AL 35905

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
43 reviews

-Very clean -Very nice and friendly staff -Administrator was busy could not see, meet her -Would have liked to see more activities, very quite -Great place, very clean smell good, decorated pretty -Room...

Best of Senior Living All Star
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
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Silver Lakes Senior Living offers Independent Living, traditional Assisted Living as well as a person-centered Memory Care program. This newly renovated community offers a vibrant, homelike environment where assistance is right around the corner any time of the day or night. Whether it’s...

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Fairforest Grove Senior Living

120 Fairforest Rd, Columbia, SC 29212

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
64 reviews

Great place she is still unhappy due to the move but daily they have been wonderful with her! We greatly appreciate all there work and care. Activities are limited for her because she is not sure about...

Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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At Fairforest Grove, you’ll feel the difference that regional ownership and management make in creating a warm, family-focused environment, especially suited for senior living. Fairforest Grove is owned and managed by Mainstay Senior Living, not by a corporation or senior care conglomerate. Our...

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Brookdale Santa Fe

640 Alta Vista, Santa Fe, NM 87505

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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2 Floor plans available
9.8
Review Score
59 reviews

I moved into Brookdale Independent Living in [date removed]. I chose Brookdale after touring several facilities in New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Nevada. I saw the somewhat outdated building, and...

Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
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Find Your Redefined IndependenceIt’s time to upgrade your senior living, and you don’t even have to leave town to do it. We are a senior living community right here in Santa Fe that offers beautiful independent living and assisted living residences in pueblo-style architecture with magnificent...

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Brookdale Lowry

150 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80230

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
115 reviews

They staff is SO accommodating and kind. The facility is extremely clean. Very happy with our choice to put our Father at Brookdale Lowry They have been fantastic!

Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Savor a Rich and Full LifeIf you’re looking for an assisted living and memory care community in Denver, Colorado, look no further. Nestled in the Lowry Air Force Base area, our community is convenient to the grocery stores, banks, the public library and VA hospital. But even though we’re in a...

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Pine Ridge Villas of Shelby

4200 W Utica Rd, Shelby Township, MI 48317

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
106 reviews

Friendly, welcoming, accommodating, and helpful staff. Average selection of, studio, 1 & 2 bedroom apartments. Our 2 bedroom is spacious and well laid out.

Best of Senior Living All Star
Provides: Independent Living
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Discover the unparalleled joys of retirement living at Pine Ridge Villas of Shelby!Nestled in the heart of Shelby Township, Michigan, our all-inclusive 55+ independent living community provides easy access to nearly 1,200 acres of parks and 18 miles of trails, giving residents ample opportunities...

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Addington Place of Jupiter

1031 Community Dr, Jupiter, FL 33458

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
27 reviews

Very happy with Addington. It has a feeling of community that my step mother has enjoyed very much. Level of care is excellent and people are treated as individuals.

Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
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We planned Addington Place of Jupiter as a way to bring seniors together. To foster a sense of community and connection between residents, caregivers, and staff. That’s because we want Addington Place to be the best place you can imagine living. A place providing life-enriching activities,...

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Fieldstone Place

51 Patel Way, Clarksville, TN 37043

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
29 reviews

Staff has been very responsive and prompt. Mom had been very impressed with the quality of the food. mom is now calling bingo and running one of the card games in the evening. Mom says she feels like she...

Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
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Nikkei Senior Gardens by Cogir

9221 Arleta Ave, Arleta, CA 91331

Starting at$X,XXX+ monthly
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9.8
Review Score
15 reviews

Nikkei Senior Gardens is an absolutely lovely facility! My mother is so happy to be staying at such a nice, peaceful place where the entire staff is very friendly, enthusiastic and always eager to help. As a...

Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Nikkei Senior Gardens. Created for you.Nikkei Senior Gardens is located in the city of Arleta, a quiet residential community in the San Fernando Valley. This vibrant neighborhood serves as a multicultural assisted living community for those seeking a bit of extra help to maximize their...

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Best of 2026 Senior Living Awards criteria

Receive 10 or more reviews on APlaceforMom.com

Attain an overall Review Score of at least 9.5 based on review

Offer assisted living, independent living, skilled nursing, or memory care in the United States or Canada

*Based on reviews and ratings collected from APlaceforMom.com during the awards period, Jan. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 2025. U.S. and Canada only.

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The best independent living communities in the U.S. earned A Place for Mom’s 2025 Best of Senior Living Awards based on resident and family reviews. The highly rated featured communities represent the top 2-3% of independent living providers nationwide.