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Cardinal Senior Living
1350 Longwood Ave, Bedford, VA, 24523
Cardinal Senior Living
1350 Longwood Ave, Bedford, VA, 24523
A Place Seniors Call Home in Bedford
Welcome to a senior community you or your loved one can call home. Cardinal Senior Living provides family-style compassionate care, a vibrant atmosphere and engaging activities for older adults for whom superior assisted living and memory care programs create engaged days and happy experiences.
Located conveniently in the charming city of Bedford, Virginia, the community is ideally positioned for the amenities of Lynchburg and Roanoke, amazing destinations in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the sights of Smith Mountain Lake. Relax in a luxurious suite, join inspiring activities, and take thrilling outings to area attractions.
The care, amenities and programs at Cardinal Senior Living are tuned to the needs of seniors that need daily assistance and older adults with Alzheimer’s or dementia. The bright, spacious rooms are available on various layouts to suit budgets and lifestyles. Daily cleaning is included, and laundry service can be added to eliminate worry about daily chores. Every room offers the perfect balance of size and convenience, with beautiful décor and handicapped-accessible bathrooms and showers.
Expert Assistance
The community’s expert assistance boosts residents’ independence. Help with housekeeping, meal preparation, hygiene, medication management and other activities of daily living (ADLs) ensures seniors have more time and energy to enjoy community activities. Life enrichment activities help every resident have fun, stay in shape, enjoy their favorite pastimes and make friends.
Cardinal Senior Living is minutes from the Liberty Station restaurant, The National D-Day Memorial, Bedford Historic District and the historical Avenal House. Browse for a perfect memento at Liberty Antique Mall, enjoy a picnic at Liberty Lake Park and visit the stunning surroundings at Claytor Nature Study Center. Outside healthcare providers nearby include Centra Bedford Memorial Hospital, Bedford Community Health Center and Bedford Family Urgent Care.
If you think the charming assisted living, memory care or respite care is ideal for you or a loved one, chat with our team to check prices and arrange a tour.
There are 3 hospitals within 25 miles of Cardinal Senior Living. The two closest hospitals are Bedford Memorial Hospital which is 3.5 miles away and Centra Health, Inc which is 20.6 miles away.
Some of the key amenities available at Cardinal Senior Living are:
- Beauty & Barber
- Pool
- Social Outings
- Outdoor Areas
- Parking
Services and Amenities
Services
- Activity Center
- Housekeeping
- Transportation arrangement (non-medical)
- Resident Parking Available
- Complimentary Transportation
- Uncovered Parking
Activities & Fitness
- Pet Friendly
- Fitness Programs
- Devotional Activities Offsite
- Activities On-site
- Holiday Parties
- Live Musical Performances
Dining & Nutrition
- Clubs & Communities
- Professional Chef
- Meals Provided
- Guest Meals
- Low / No Sodium
- No Sugar
Accommodations
- Library & Computer Lounge
- Cable
- Wifi
- Kitchenettes
- Telephone
- Beauty salon
Care
- Restaurant Style Dining
- 12-16 hour nursing
- Medication management
- Mental wellness program
- Diabetic care
- Memory care
Neighborhood
- Arts and Crafts Center
- Game Room
- Raised Garden Beds
My mother-in-law has moved into Cardinal Senior Living. What I like the best is the level of caring employees. They seem to care deeply about the residents. They have a lot of community involvement in their activities. They seem to be deeply connected and have community volunteers just to try and ma...
My mother-in-law has moved into Cardinal Senior Living. What I like the best is the level of caring employees. They seem to care deeply about the residents. They have a lot of community involvement in their activities. They seem to be deeply connected and have community volunteers just to try and make life enjoyable for the residents there. They participated in the Christmas parade in Bedford and went to see Christmas lights one evening. They have pastors leading Bible studies and musicians leading singalong times and entertaining. The negative for me is the size of the rooms is small compared to other places that we've seen. It's an older building. They try and make it very cheerful. There are a lot of pretty paintings on the wall. They decorated a lot for Christmas. I think they try and make it as homelike as possible. It's near Downtown Bedford.
Read moreWe've placed my wife in Cardinal Senior Living. We've only been there two weeks now. My impression is that they're doing better than where we were, but they don't have very many patients there. It's a smaller outfit. It's a little more assisted living and then some. The...
We've placed my wife in Cardinal Senior Living. We've only been there two weeks now. My impression is that they're doing better than where we were, but they don't have very many patients there. It's a smaller outfit. It's a little more assisted living and then some. They give her more help in some things. They're a little more flexible than some of the larger ones. The facility is very good, nice and clean. Everything looks good. It's an older one, but they seem to have everything. They seem to be in charge and doing a good job with it. The staff and the services are very good. They are more attentive. You push your button and they're going to be there unlike the last place where she was, you push your button and you may or may not get anybody. I didn't eat there, but the food looked very good and my wife seems to like it. Most of the people there are eating and most of them eat a lot. She's still getting used to the place and she's in a wheelchair most all the time and hadn't been able to do some of the stuff that they were doing. The staff members are very competent and the good thing about it is we got a nurse that stays with her all the time. I don't have a change of nurses like some of the others we experienced. I don't know exactly what all they're doing, but it seems that everybody's enjoying themselves and they've got some rooms where they're playing cards and they've got some rooms where they're just relaxing. I was pleased with it.
Read moreWe took a tour at Cardinal Senior Living and we couldn't afford them because they had a lot of extra fees. It was a very nice tour though. They all seemed very close, they knew the patients by name. The facility was nice, but it was really kind of small. The rooms were small and there was only ...
We took a tour at Cardinal Senior Living and we couldn't afford them because they had a lot of extra fees. It was a very nice tour though. They all seemed very close, they knew the patients by name. The facility was nice, but it was really kind of small. The rooms were small and there was only room for a bed and a dresser. It was a community bathroom for everybody so you didn't have your own bathroom. Everything else was nice. The people were all very friendly. The residents were all happy and everything else seemed nice. I was looking for assisted living during my tour. The rooms were just really small, it's just room for a bed and a dresser and maybe a small closet. They had single rooms with one bed and then they had double rooms with two but there wasn't room for anything but the very basic. They didn't have room for a recliner or something for them to sit in like that. Some of them were having meals when I got there. It was basically just an open room with multiple tables that sat up to four people for them to have lunch or dinner or whatever together. They said they set up different activities for them. They charge extra for everything. Extra for laundry, extra for cable, and extra for a telephone.
Read moreMy mother-in-law will be moving into Cardinal Senior Living. It seems very cheerful and professionally run. They have caring staff, it was a little lower priced than some of them that we have looked at, and it just had better accommodations. It seemed like a better fit. The manager, who is one of th...
My mother-in-law will be moving into Cardinal Senior Living. It seems very cheerful and professionally run. They have caring staff, it was a little lower priced than some of them that we have looked at, and it just had better accommodations. It seemed like a better fit. The manager, who is one of the co-owners, was very professional and helpful.
Read moreCardinal Senior Living is very small. The staff was very welcoming and knowledgeable. The exterior was very well maintained. It's not extremely secluded, but it's not close to a road. There were lots of flat areas for residents to walk. They have a small beauty shop for residents. The f...
Cardinal Senior Living is very small. The staff was very welcoming and knowledgeable. The exterior was very well maintained. It's not extremely secluded, but it's not close to a road. There were lots of flat areas for residents to walk. They have a small beauty shop for residents. The facility is more like a house, so it has lots of small areas. Those are the two things that made us choose a different facility. It's also darker and has darker walls. It does not have many large windows, and the gathering space for residents was small with narrow hallways. For our mom, who's used to being able to be out, we just think she would not be out as much as she normally is. We felt like that would be very confining for her. Also, she kind of fit in between their two places. Her memory is not good enough really to be in assisted living because she would have what's called a wonder guard; she would have to wear that. It would automatically lock the doors that she tried to go out, so that that was not very ideal. The memory care people were much more severe and profound than she is. She is very verbal and mobile, even though what she says isn't true. She would not have anybody there to interact with. They have several very nice outdoor patios and covered porches for their assisted living people. They had a small garden that was secure for the memory care. Because mom would need the security, she really couldn't go out onto the covered patios that they had for assisted living; there would be no one to watch her. She could wander off. There just wasn't an in-between for her at Cardinal. The tour was great. They answered all of our questions. They anticipated what questions we might have, showed us things that we might need (but might not need). They showed us everything regardless, so that we would have an idea of everything that they offered. They take their residents on field trips, which is very nice.
Read moreMy mother-in-law moved into Cardinal Senior Living. We're very, very pleased. They've been wonderful. The apartment is fine, and she's in a private room. So far, everything's been good. We haven't met a lot of the other staff because of COVID. They do have a little courtyard...
My mother-in-law moved into Cardinal Senior Living. We're very, very pleased. They've been wonderful. The apartment is fine, and she's in a private room. So far, everything's been good. We haven't met a lot of the other staff because of COVID. They do have a little courtyard. They do the laundry, they've just been really good, I think there's a beautician, and we're just so far very pleased.
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