Applewood Our House - South Lakewood

Applewood Our House on Van Gordon is a small, secured residential care home at 1182 South Van Gordon Court in the Green Mountain area of west Lakewood, Colorado, near the foothills. With 16 residents and every room private, it delivers memory care and assisted living in a real house, which is the heart of the Applewood Our House model: personal care in a family-home setting rather than a large institution.

The home serves residents living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, along with those who need everyday assisted-living help, in a secured, locked layout with a safe outdoor commons. Caregivers are QMAP-certified for medication administration and trained in dementia care and behavior management, and the small size keeps attention personal, with roughly one caregiver for every six residents.

What sets Van Gordon apart from its sister home is that all 16 rooms are private, each with its own in-room bathroom and a wheelchair-accessible shower, so every resident has a space of their own. Care plans are individualized, with fall-prevention built in and lighting and music tuned to resident preferences. Daily life centers on a residential chef's kitchen and a dietitian-created, seasonal rotating menu, with snacks through the day.

The calendar runs arts and crafts, games, gardening, gentle exercise, and a steady program of outings to museums, the zoo, botanical gardens, and fishing trips, and a resident house dog named Dolly is part of the household. Residents are welcome to bring their own pets by arrangement, which a senior advisor can walk through, and the secured outdoor commons gives residents a safe place to be outside.

Applewood Our House runs five small homes across the west Denver metro, and a senior advisor can walk a family through current all-inclusive pricing and how funding works. The Green Mountain location keeps care close, with St. Anthony Hospital, a Level I trauma and comprehensive stroke center, less than two miles away, roughly a four-minute drive. The foothills and Green Mountain Park trails sit nearby for a quieter, more suburban feel than the urban side of Lakewood, with U.S.

6 and C-470 close for family driving in. With a true 16-resident house, all-private rooms, a secured memory-care setting, and a location minutes from St. Anthony Hospital, Applewood Our House on Van Gordon gives west-Lakewood families an intimate alternative to a large memory-care building.