Jaxpointe at 63rd Place

Jaxpointe at 63rd Place opened in September 2015 in a completely remodeled ranch home on West 63rd Place, a residential street in West Arvada near West 64th Avenue and Quaker Street that carries a Golden mailing address. The house is a secure, locked residential community offering memory care and assisted living to eight residents, who live in six bedrooms, four of them private and two of them shared.

Its dementia care reaches people living with Alzheimer's, Lewy body, vascular and Parkinson's dementia, and the household also cares for people with a brain injury and people who have had a stroke. Through the daytime, two full-time caregivers share responsibility for the eight residents, a ratio of one staff member to four residents, and one caregiver stays awake through the overnight hours. Each person on staff has finished the classes to become Qualified Medication Administration Personnel and holds first aid and CPR certification.

Help with the activities of daily living, medication management, and incontinence management with supplies are all part of the care inside the house. Home health, rehabilitation and hospice services are coordinated for residents, and a certified physical therapy assistant with 20 years of experience comes by twice a week to lead specialized movement routines with them. A podiatry nurse looks after foot care, and a hair stylist stops in once a month for haircuts.

Should a resident need to go to a hospital or an emergency room, a staff member or a family member goes along, and quite often both of them do. Most residents choose to remain at Jaxpointe at 63rd Place for the rest of their lives, with hospice care coordinated for them inside the house. Three home-cooked meals a day, with snacks offered through the day, follow a dietitian-approved menu, and the household sits down together for lunch and dinner much like a family meal.

Staff take part in the day's activities alongside residents, which run from puzzles and gardening to music and exercise. Personalized music programs are developed for residents, and musical entertainers perform at the house on a weekly basis. Outings take residents beyond the front door to the zoo, the aquarium, local festivals and rodeos. The remodeled ranch home holds the six bedrooms, and the house is kept secure and locked for the residents who live there.

Walk-in showers come equipped with a shower chair, grab bars, non-slip flooring and a hand-held shower head. Behind the house, a large, well-maintained backyard holds walking paths, gardens and open space for recreation. This setting suits a family whose loved one is living with Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, or with the effects of a brain injury or stroke, and who wants that care given in a house of eight residents with two caregivers present through the day.

Payment is private pay under one all-inclusive monthly rate that holds steady whatever level of care a resident needs, and it takes in laundry, medication management, meals and snacks, monthly haircuts, foot care, the activities of daily living, and incontinence management with supplies. Long-term care insurance is accepted here, many veterans qualify for the Veterans Aid and Attendance financial assistance program, and scholarship support from the RG Memory Care Fund is available to residents and families in need.

No monthly figure is published, so ask for the current rate when arranging a visit to the house. West 63rd Place sits in Jefferson County in West Arvada, and several parks are within reach of the house, including Sunrise Ridge less than half a mile away, Broad Lake Park under a mile away and Long Lake Regional Park about a mile away. West Arvada Dog Park and Table Mountain Park are each a little more than a mile from the front door.

For errands, King Soopers at 15200 West 64th Avenue is under three-quarters of a mile away, while Walgreens on McIntyre Parkway and Sprouts Farmers Market on West 64th Avenue are each just under a mile from the house. Hospital care is available at Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, which has an emergency department on West 40th Avenue in Wheat Ridge, roughly three and a half miles to the south-southeast.