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The average monthly cost of Independent Living in South Carolina is $3,557, according to A Place for Mom’s proprietary data. This can serve as a helpful benchmark for what families in the Cedar Swamp area can expect to pay. Pricing may vary based on the community’s location, your loved one’s care needs, and any additional services or amenities.

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Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Thanks to a thoughtful bequest by Dr. and Mrs. Percy Bethea and the support of South Carolina Baptists, Bethea Baptist Retirement Community opened its doors in 1960. Since then, our philosophy has remained much the same; to provide a secure, dignified environment for older persons who share the...
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I like this community for the care that my mother is getting from the nice staff. I like to know she is in a clean community where the staff is patient with her needs. The menu is appealing and she is just...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Welcoming and warm is the feel you sense after coming to discover the 'Home-like' atmosphere here at McElveen Manor of Sumter, SC. Many of our current residents will tell you, there is no place like home, and McElveen Manor is as close as it gets! We promise each resident an inviting and trendy...
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It worked out real well, it's a fine place.
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
A group of caring people in Sumter, South Carolina made a unique promise, a covenant, to their community to create a Continuing Care Retirement Community where the needs of mature adults and their loved ones could be met. The result of that promise is Covenant Place – a warm, inviting retirement...
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Brightwater provided exceptional care for my mother while in both assisted living and nursing care. Sharon went above and beyond to help ensure my mother was in good care. The staff including [names removed]...
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living, Nursing Homes
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Nursing Homes: Nursing homes provide short-and long-term care for seniors who have physical or mental health conditions that require 24-hour nursing and personal care.
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I would tell others that they have done a very good job taking care of my friend at The Blake at Carnes Crossroads. It is a new facility so it is beautiful. I would highly recommend to others who are...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Resort Style Assisted Living and Memory CareStrategically located in Summerville, South Carolina. The Blake at Carnes Crossroads is unlike any other. Retirement and hospitality are blended to create an assisted living and memory care community where you will feel right at home.Our unique...
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The facility is outstanding, clean, safe, inviting, family oriented. The staff is amazing, respectful, courteous and engaging. I couldn't have imagined a a place for mom. Coming from NC, I was very...
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Do more of what you love.If you’re ready to redefine your independence with more freedom, then Sumter Terrace (formerly Brookdale) might be the perfect fit for you.With assisted living, you’ll have help with managing medications, dressing and bathing, as well as services like housekeeping and...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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This is a great community with great care. The staff is always so caring and helpful. They do have activities, but she is not active right now due to just settling into the community.They are a great value...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Hope Arbor of Murrells Inlet is a locally owned, not-for-profit assisted living. Our community is not large and overwhelming as we are licensed to care for no more than 60 residents. Our prices are all-inclusive which allows for our residents to age in place without having to worry about care...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Carriage House Senior Living The Carriage House Senior Living Center in Florence, South Carolina is an assisted living community conveniently situated in a metropolitan setting near shops, bus lines, restaurants, and theaters. Our residents enjoy temperate weather autumn through spring, and...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Senior Apartments
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Senior Apartments: Senior apartments offer accessible, no-frills living for seniors who are generally active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.

Cost of independent living in Cedar Swamp, SC

The average cost of senior living in South Carolina is $3,557 per month as compared to $3,520 in the United States.

Senior living costs in South Carolina vs. national costs

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Column communityType: Community type
Column state: South Carolina
Column national: U.S.
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Community typeSouth CarolinaU.S.Cost difference
Independent Living$3,557/mo$3,520/mo1.1% above national median
Assisted Living$4,824/mo$5,830/mo17.3% below national median
Memory Care$5,404/mo$6,999/mo22.8% below national median
Independent Living
South Carolina:$3,557/mo
U.S.:$3,520/mo
Cost difference:1.1% above national median
Assisted Living
South Carolina:$4,824/mo
U.S.:$5,830/mo
Cost difference:17.3% below national median
Memory Care
South Carolina:$5,404/mo
U.S.:$6,999/mo
Cost difference:22.8% below national median
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What families are saying about independent living in Cedar Swamp

Recent reviews for independent living in Cedar Swamp

Brightwater Assisted Living in Myrtle Beach, SC

5.0
All prominent senior living communities have well-appointed housing options with a variety of health, wellness and entertainment programs. What makes Brightwater standout are its Move Coordinator and Mentoring Program. The Brightwater Move Coordinator works with you, your movers and ...
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The Ridges at Florence

4.0
Everything is going well for my mother since her move to this community. She is doing well, and I'am pleased with all they have done for us. This community is working out pretty well for us, and it is a good place with kind people.

Hope Arbor of Murrells Inlet

5.0
The staff is good,but they could do better. The meals are good and they said that my wife enjoys them. The community is always clean and neat. My wife says that she feels really comfortable with being here.

Reviews mention these favorite features of communities

Affordable pricing and competitive value. Several reviews mention the reasonable cost and value for the amenities offered at various communities, such as Terra Bella, where residents believe the price is lower than similar communities in other areas and provides excellent value for their money.At TerraBella Myrtle Beach, one resident ...
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Attentive and caring staff. Residents praise the kindness and attentiveness of the staff at their communities, with many expressing gratitude for the emotional support they've received during challenging times. For example, the executive director at Portside goes above and beyond to help families make the transition for th ...
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Engaging and various activities. Residents enjoy the wide range of activities offered at their communities, which help them stay social and active. Examples include writing classes, art classes, water aerobics, chair volleyball tournaments, and musical entertainment.At Indigo at Carolina Forest, residents mention the abundanc ...
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Friendly and accommodating environment. Reviews describe the welcoming and friendly atmosphere of the communities, with residents making new friends and feeling at home. For instance, at TerraBella Myrtle Beach, a resident states, 'My mom is showing some signs of forgetfulness as we all do and I am so glad that she has the dining room ...
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High-quality meals and dining experiences. Meals are a significant factor in residents' overall satisfaction with their communities, and the quality of the food and dining experiences are often highlighted in the reviews. For example, at TerraBella, the meals are described as 'delicious!', while at Arbor Landing, the food is compared to ...
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Thoughtful and accommodating management. Management goes the extra mile to make the transition for new residents and their families as smooth as possible, providing assistance and information, and addressing residents' concerns in a timely manner. At Portside, the management is described as 'very helpful' and 'always available'At Port ...
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Cedar Swamp independent living services and amenities

These charts highlight some of the many care, dining, and entertainment offerings available in Cedar Swamp independent living communities. They don’t represent all possible services and amenities available at assisted living communities in Cedar Swamp, but support comparisons against nationwide offerings. Our Senior Living Advisors can help you find communities that fit your preferences.

Availability of select dietary accommodations in Cedar Swamp independent living

Independent living communities help seniors maintain a balanced diet by accommodating their health needs, allergies, and other restrictions. Below you’ll find the percentage of Cedar Swamp partners making specific dietary accommodations for seniors compared to the percentage of assisted living partners making those accommodations nationally.
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Nutritionist / dietician
Nutritionist / dietician
23.4%
21.2%
Low / no sodium
Low / no sodium
32.5%
35.7%
No sugar
No sugar
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Vegetarian
Vegetarian
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Pureed meals
Pureed meals
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Availability of select dining options in Cedar Swamp independent living

Our independent living communities know that seniors want top-quality meals and options for how they dine. The chart below indicates the percentage of Cedar Swamp communities that offer dining options to their discerning residents compared to our partners nationally.
Cedar Swamp, SCNational
Professional chef
Professional chef
20.8%
37.5%
Restaurant style dining
Restaurant style dining
37.7%
44.8%
Room service
Room service
28.6%
38.1%
Anytime dining
Anytime dining
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Availability of select programs and activities in Cedar Swamp independent living

Senior living communities offer a variety of programming to keep seniors socially, mentally, and physically vibrant. The chart below shows what percentage of partnered independent living communities in Cedar Swamp offer the selected activities, amenities, and programs compared to the percentage of partners nationwide.
Cedar Swamp, SCNational
Activity director
Activity director
39%
46.4%
Pet-focused programs
Pet-focused programs
27.3%
29.3%
Community service programs
Community service programs
24.7%
34.1%
Devotional activities on-site
Devotional activities on-site
45.5%
48.3%
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
39%
50%
Outings / off-site activities
Outings / off-site activities
42.9%
54.9%
Piano or organ
Piano or organ
36.4%
44.2%
Arts and crafts center
Arts and crafts center
31.2%
39.6%
Educational speakers / life long learning
Educational speakers / life long learning
36.4%
42.9%
Clubs / games / karaoke
Clubs / games / karaoke
37.7%
48.3%
Live performances
Live performances
39%
47.9%
Dances
Dances
32.5%
34.1%
Fitness center
Fitness center
15.6%
40.6%
Fitness classes
Fitness classes
37.7%
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Arbor Landing at Surfside, Pinewood Square and Inlet Coastal Resort are the top-rated independent living facilities near Cedar Swamp, South Carolina. See full list of communities.
There are 90 independent living facilities near Cedar Swamp, South Carolina. See the full list.
The best independent living facilities near you in Cedar Swamp, South Carolina are Inlet Coastal Resort, Indigo at Carolina Forest and The Addison of Florence. These independent living communities received the highest rankings based on verified family reviews.
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