Gentle Care House

Residents at Gentle Care House gather around one table for most of the day's meals, a small ritual that anchors the schedule in a home built for just 8 people rather than a sprawling campus. The house sits on Darby Street in north-central Colorado Springs, offering both assisted living and memory care inside the same residential setting rather than splitting the two into separate spaces. Support covers bathing, dressing, and medication schedules, with the same attentiveness whether a resident's needs fall under assisted living or memory care.

Memory support happens at that same table and in those same hallways as everything else in the house, meaning a resident doesn't lose the surroundings they've grown used to just because dementia has entered the picture. Gentle Care House bills Medicaid, a detail that matters most for families who'd otherwise be priced out of a home this size, and the level of support grows as a resident's needs do.

Outside of mealtimes, the day moves through smaller stretches, since a caregiver might sit with a resident working through a simple puzzle, walk someone slowly around the yard, or just talk through an old memory that keeps surfacing. With only 8 residents in the house, staff catch small shifts in mood or appetite quickly, and that close attention tends to matter most for residents whose memory has begun to change.

Gentle Care House tends to appeal to families for two practical reasons: Medicaid billing is on the table, and the household stays small enough that a caregiver never has far to go. There's no independent living wing here, and short-term respite stays aren't currently arranged either. St Francis Medical Center sits within reach for medical appointments or emergencies, and the shops and restaurants around Garden of the Gods Road cover everyday errands close to the Darby Street neighborhood.

Gentle Care House stays deliberately small, giving 8 residents a Medicaid-accepting home where assisted living and memory care share the same table, the same rooms, and the same familiar caregivers.